The votes are a dramatic illustration of how the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June to eliminate the nationwide right to abortion has galvanized voters who support women’s right to choose.
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Abortion bans, protections awaiting verdicts from voters
Democrats fear their grip on the U.S. House may be slipping and their control of the U.S. Senate – once seen as more secure – may loosen.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: The question of abortion should be a moot point
You do as you believe, I do as I believe.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: I live in Maine, but I had to travel to Colorado to get an abortion
When I think about voting in the coming election, I think about my family’s experience.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Peter Roff: Another perspective on Supreme Court’s abortion decision
At the time it was handed down, the nation’s editorial pages generally condemned the United States Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. Taking the responsibility for setting abortion policy out of the hands of lawyers, special interest groups, and judges and returning it to voters and state legislators was deemed undemocratic. Ironically, what was undemocratic was what […]
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Abortion access could hinge on state election results
Abortion access in several states could hinge out the outcome of November elections of lawmakers, governors, supreme court justices and attorneys general.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Analysis: How the threat of ‘taxpayer-funded abortion’ mobilizes conservative religious voters
Campaigns to prevent tax dollars from funding abortion have kept anti-abortion activists and other Republican voters engaged for decades – even when a ban on legal abortion seemed unlikely.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Low-wage workers bear financial brunt of denied abortions
It has always been difficult to be pregnant on the job and to raise a child, but especially so for low-wage workers.
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Second woman accuses Herschel Walker of pressuring her to have an abortion
A second woman came forward saying Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker pressured her to have an abortion, driving her to a clinic and waiting for hours in the parking lot.
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Justice Alito says leaked abortion opinion made majority ‘targets for assassination’
The justice says the leak of his draft opinion on Roe v. Wade was a ‘grave betrayal of trust by somebody and it was a shock.’