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Arkansas governor says he opposes national abortion ban
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday that he opposes a national ban on abortion because it would take away the authority of a state like his that is poised to imme...
May 08, 2022
They traveled across state lines to get abortions. Now they fear a post-Roe world
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A leaked draft opinion showing the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade sparked nationwide outrage and panic among abortion rights advocates. And for women who already...
May 08, 2022
Abortion bans 'will be swift' if Roe v. Wade is overturned: Sen. Amy Klobuchar
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The move to add new abortion bans "will be swift" if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Sunday, adding that the Senate will do everything it can to ...
May 08, 2022
Kamala Harris warns women may lose right to 'make decisions about their own bodies' in commencement speech
Alan Poizner/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- Vice President Kamala Harris gave a sobering look at the "unsettled" world students are heading into as she delivered the commencement...
May 07, 2022
Women's Health Protection Act explained as Roe v. Wade comes under likely threat
Tom Brenner/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As a leaked draft opinion of a Supreme Court ruling shows a conservative majority of justices appear poised to overturn federal protections of abortion rights, ...
May 07, 2022
Some Republicans use false 'pedophilia' claims to attack Democrats, LGBTQ people
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- It was an eyebrow-raising moment in the confirmation hearings for the first Black female Supreme Court justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson -- a grilling about her st...
May 07, 2022
Supreme Court leak probe likely to focus on justices, clerks, and staff
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The extraordinary leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade has triggered an equally extraordinary whodunnit focused on a small uni...
May 06, 2022
Judge rules GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene can stay on ballot
John Bazemore-Pool/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- An administrative law judge in Georgia on Friday ruled that GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene can stay on the ballot for the state's 14th Congressional D...
May 06, 2022
Elizabeth Warren talks to 'The View' about the repercussions of ending Roe v. Wade
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., joined "The View" Friday to reiterate what she says will be the devastating effects on women's health if Roe v. Wade is overturned. Since the...
May 06, 2022
What does the Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion mean for other rights?
Joseph Sohm/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- With a leaked draft opinion revealing this week that the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to overturn nearly 50 years of abortion rights precedent, Democrats a...
May 06, 2022
