Two Florida state representatives have sent a letter to the city of St. Petersburg threatening to cut off all of its state funding until council members drop a plan to allocate $50,000 to the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund.
Two Florida state representatives have sent a letter to the city of St. Petersburg threatening to cut off all of its state funding until council members drop a plan to allocate $50,000 to the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund.
Republicans in Washington, including Rep. Kevin McCarthy, have made entire careers out of bashing Nancy Pelosi, who served as the unblinking Democratic House leader for the last two decades. But GOP leaders have also quietly marveled at Pelosi’s ability to marshal her members and win votes on the House floor, both for herself and for the Democratic agenda, over and over again.
The fall of Roe v. Wade over the summer did more than change the landscape on abortion. It also left questions over other Supreme Court precedents and elements of reproductive health care like contraceptives in Republican-controlled states. In the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Womenâs Health decision, which reversed the constitutional right to an abortion, there was a large increase in demand .