Tara Culp-Ressler at ThinkProgress writes: “State lawmakers will reconvene to kick off their new sessions this week, and Republican legislators are already gearing up for the new abortion restrictions they hope to introduce this year.”
Irin Carmon writes for Salon.com: “It was worldwide news when a woman died in Ireland after being denied an abortion. She was hardly the only tragedy.”
Jessica Mason Pielko writes for RH Reality Check: “Much like crisis pregnancy centers, groups that promote ‘pray away the gay’ therapies rely on equal parts psuedo-science and deep moral hostility for those ‘patients’ they aim to treat. So it should conc…
Katha Pollitt writes for The Nation: “When pregnancy kills a woman, her fetus dies, too. So what is the point of denying a life-saving abortion except to underline that she is the vessel, and the fetus is the human being?”
With so many issues hanging in the balance, this election was very stressful for me. On a personal level, the most important issue was the threat of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. I have epilepsy, for which I have to take very expensive medicine. I’m not the only one with this story, so it baffles me that anyone would want to let so many people go without lifesaving health insurance.
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