Anti-abortion

NEWS: Abortion bans, restrictions could cost economy $140 billion

A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a national think tank focused on economic equity and eliminating barriers for women, estimates that the 16 states with the most restrictive abortion policies are responsible for more than $68 billion in annual lost earnings. In places like Alabama, Louisiana, and West Virginia, abortion bans have pushed women out of the workforce, diminished their earnings, and limited job growth, the report found. Removing reproductive health-care barriers could result in an estimated 325,000 more women aged 15-44 participating in the workforce each year, the report shows. That could boost the national…
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Four Years Post-Dobbs: New Attacks on Abortion Access Harm 62 Percent of U.S. Women of Reproductive Age

The National Partnership for Women & Families released new analysis on the impacts of anti-abortion policies four years after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade. The new report examines anti-abortion extremists’ strategy to target access from every angle – from banning abortion outright to shuttering in-person clinics to limiting telehealth abortion. The harms are felt by millions across different communities, even in states where abortion is legal and protected.
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Why the Trump Administration is Calling Embryos “Children” & Why It’s Dangerous

In June 2026, the Trump administration quietly revised a federal grant program to help give rights and benefits to embryos, a move that is aligned with a key legal strategy of the anti-abortion movement. That strategy is one that would ban abortion nationwide, could restrict access to other reproductive and pregnancy-related care like IVF and contraception, and puts pregnant people and people who can become pregnant at even greater risk of surveillance, investigation, and criminalization. 
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Nine days in June

As we await the usual late-June flurry of decisions – some of them quite significant – I wanted to reflect on what I believe to be the most extraordinary June in the modern Supreme Court, which took place four years ago in 2022. In decisions between June 21 and June 30, the court overruled Roe v. Wade, greatly expanded the scope of gun rights, dramatically weakened the wall separating church and state, and imposed a significant new limit on the power of federal administrative agencies.
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