North Dakota's Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's hold on the state's near-total abortion ban, ruling that access to the controversial medical procedure in some circumstances is constitutional.
bottle of these places they ve been passing more bills compared to the last six legislative sessions combined. that matters because it s a clear example of democrats how their political gains in the elections you turned directly into policy wins. it s across the board with what they re passing, allocating money from the infrastructure law to local transportation projects. protecting reproduction rights. working on tax cuts and things for different parts of the economy. so it s really interesting to look at this data and consider in past sessions there has been zero thing, these democrats are up to passing six, seven, eight things in this month alone, really try to make action happen while they have these majority and the last couple of days,
introduced equal access to abortion coverage in health care act. i want you to tell us about it specifically, how it would help make care for a more excessive post roe era. this is especially important because it s hard to believe but this week we re supposed to be celebrating the 50th anniversary of roe v. wade, constitutional right to abortion. instead, with the dobbs decision and roe being overturned we find ourselves in the wake of just unrelenting coordinated legislated attacks on abortion, justice, and reproduction rights, which the people of this country time and time again have affirmed that this matters to them. a ballots this country, in the midterm elections, in the supreme court did something unprecedented, legislating from the bench seeking to overturn the will of the majority of the people. so it s important that we pass
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) A coalition of advocates for legal abortion said they are in the beginning steps of a process of putting a constitutional amendment before voters, and backe
what we see tonight whether it is through the candidates who supported the issue of abortion rights and reproduction rights, or whether it was a single ballot measure like we are when you are talking about here and kentucky. it was on the minds of people. but people and the voters are more nuance and they say that what matters to them in the urgent need was perhaps inflation and the economic anxiety. but nonetheless, abortion was a motivating factor. and how do we know that? not just because of these ballot measures have passed in the handful of states, but also because the participation and the turnout of young people, particularly women, and again it was a point that was made earlier you cannot have something that fundamentally impacts half of our population and that not be a motivating factor and going to the poll. and isabella pox. it may not be the sole issue, it may not be the most important issue, but it was an issue. and i think that was the outlier in how this has been playi