Nov 5, 2024 | Abortion, Salon.com
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Monday that he believes climate change is caused by abortions, not burning fossil fuels.
Speaking on a podcast with former Trump campaign strategist and fellow Trump ally Stephen Bannon, who was just released from prison, Carlson denied the scientific consensus that fossil fuel use is behind global heating, and that this in turn fuels hurricanes like those which recently struck the American Southeast....
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May 7, 2024 | Abortion, Immigration, Salon.com
Even though humans are experiencing the hottest months in recorded human history, and scientists warn our species is living on “borrowed time,” a recent poll found a notable dip in the number of people who view climate change as an urgent issue.
In the latest poll by Monmouth University, less than half (46%) of the American public perceives global heating as being a very serious problem....
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Mar 14, 2024 | Abortion, Salon.com
Almost two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Vice President Kamala Harris — America’s first female Vice President — made history on Thursday by being the first sitting president or vice president to visit an abortion clinic. Harris, as first reported by NBC News, planned on visiting the Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota in a way that would not interfere with the providing of medical services....
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Dec 13, 2023 | Abortion, Salon.com
The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it would issue a ruling on whether a commonly used abortion pill should be widely available. Specifically, the court said that it would review earlier decisions by various appeals courts that held the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) overstepped its authority in broadening access to mifepristone....
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Apr 21, 2023 | Abortion, Salon.com
The abortion pill will remain legal in the United States.
On Friday, the Supreme Court issued an order halting a federal judge’s previous ruling that effectively banned mifepristone, a medication that is used in combination with misoprostol to induce medical abortions. The highest court’s order did not offer a written majority opinion, only a dissenting one from Justice Alito, meaning at least five of the nine justices agreed with the opinion....
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Apr 19, 2023 | Abortion, Salon.com
On Tuesday the Supreme Court announced that it might need until the end of this week to decide the fate of mifepristone, a drug that comes in the form of a pill used by millions to terminate early pregnancies. Their ruling could result in the ban of the drug, which would mean that medication abortions would be de facto outlawed in the United States....
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Sep 4, 2022 | Abortion, History, Salon.com
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Future historians may well remember 2022 as the year when the U.S. Supreme Court permanently went off the rails. This goes well beyond the tormented, quasi-religious reasoning used by the court’s conservative majority in Dobbs v. Jackson, the case that officially reversed the nationwide abortion rights established in 1973 by Roe v....
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May 15, 2022 | Abortion, Salon.com
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The Supreme Court is, and always has been, a political institution. That would be self-evident if not for the mystique that has been built up around America’s most important judicial body. That aura has started to dissipate — a recent Monmouth University poll found that more than half of Americans disapproved of the court’s recent performance — but it remains powerful enough that people take Chief Justice John Roberts seriously when he bemoans the supposed politicization of the Supreme Court....
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May 7, 2022 | Abortion, Salon.com
Sign-carrying pro-choice & pro-life advocates clashing outside Supreme Court, demonstrating against Pennsylvania case ruling imperiling 1973 Roe vs Wade decision legalizing abortion.\ Diana Walker/Getty Images
On May 2, 2022, an anonymous whistleblower informed Politico that the Supreme Court is planning on overturning Roe v. Wade. If this indeed comes to pass as expected, the landscape of reproductive rights and abortion access in the United States would shift radically overnight, with state governments deciding individually whether to make abortion outright illegal....
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Dec 18, 2021 | Abortion, History, Salon.com
Anti-Abortion activists gather in oppostion in front of the supreme court during the annual Women’s March October 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Women’s March and other groups organized marches across the country to protest the new abortion law in Texas. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
There is an intriguing parallel between the right-wing’s opposition to abortion rights and its crusade to prevent gun control, at least when it comes to the history of those movements in the United States....
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