By Brittany Romagnoli, President’s Office Intern On March 2, the Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt case. This case acknowledges how targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) laws in Texas are designed to shut down more than 75% of all women’s health clinics that provide abortion services in the state. While Read more …
By Hailey Lobb, PAC intern As a student studying political science, I have experienced some pretty emotional debates in classes and among friends. I have seen debates and classroom discussions turn friends into enemies. I have seen debates shut down by professors because the students were attacking the other side a bit too vigorously. I Read more …
On March 23rd, the Supreme Court will hear the case Zubik v. Burwell. Zubik questions whether the Health and Human Services contraceptive-coverage mandate and its accommodation under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) by forcing religious non-profits to act in violation of their religious beliefs as protected by the First Amendment.
The summer of 2016 could witness a defining moment in women’s history. Will the Supreme Court rule that several Texas clinic requirements are constitutional, thus undermining the undue burden standard, and empowering abortion rights opponents’ to use clinic shutdown laws to severely limit access to abortion?
A Washington Post piece on anti-choice groups going before the Supreme Court discussed “post-abortion syndrome” without explaining that the concept was created by a discredited researcher and has no medical evidence behind it. The piece also neglected to point out that the group pushing the myth, Americans United for Life (AUL), is an extreme anti-choice organization trying to eliminate all abortion access, even in cases of rape and incest.
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