Mississippi has the nation’s highest fetal mortality rate, highest infant mortality rate, highest pre-term birth rate and is among the worst states for maternal mortality.
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Posted inElection 2022, Nation & World, News, Politics
Abortion bans are motivating midterm voters, poll shows
The survey also showed that most voters, Democrats and Republicans, do not think abortion should be prohibited in cases of rape or incest, nor do they support laws that set criminal punishments for abortion providers and women who have abortions.
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Posted inNation & World, News
Abortion rights advocates eye ballot measures for 2024
After the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, advocates know appealing directly to voters is one of the only ways to counteract bans in conservative states and reshape access in a post-Roe America.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: If reelected to Maine’s Legislature, I will scratch and claw to strengthen a woman’s right to choose
The U.S. Constitution ought to adopt an Equal Rights Amendment. The Maine Constitution must, too.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Abortion rights are on the ballot. The Supreme Court put them there
Republicans, including Paul LePage, want to talk about anything else. But the end of Roe v. Wade means reproductive rights are in jeopardy.
Posted inElection 2022, Local & State, Politics
Abortion stances of Mills and LePage both likely disappointed their supporters
To the chagrin of their bases, both gubernatorial candidates claim they would not change Maine’s abortion law.
Posted inElection 2022, Local & State, News, Politics
Ad watch: TV spot plays into concerns about abortion restrictions if LePage is elected
The ad implies LePage supports banning abortion in cases of rape or incest, but his daughter and a spokesman strongly deny it.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World, News
Planned Parenthood to launch its first mobile abortion clinic post-Roe
Planned Parenthood said visits to its southern Illinois facility by out-of-state residents seeking abortion have grown 340 percent since Roe v Wade was overturned.
Posted inNation & World, News
David Beckwith, who scooped Supreme Court on Roe v. Wade, dies at 79
After working as a journalist at Time magazine, he became the inaugural editor of the Legal Times in Washington and a spokesman for Dan Quayle.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: The fathers writing abortion laws are showing no mercy for daughters
Last week CNN confirmed what the optics have long suggested: Male lawmakers, many of them fathers, are most eager to punish women for having an abortion.