Lauren Rankin
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Anti-Abortion Politics Have Always Been The Right-Wing’s Trojan Horse For Racism
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM's home for opinion and news analysis. Roe v. Wade is living on borrowed time. It’s now a matter of weeks… → Read More
Abortion Bans With No Exceptions For Rape Or Incest Were Always Part Of The GOP’s End Game
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The author of this post, Lauren Rankin, is a panelist participating in TPM’s post… → Read More
How Anti-Abortion Terrorism Fuelled The MAGA Attack On The Capitol
The anti-abortion and white supremacist terrorist movements are deeply connected. → Read More
Tennessee Abortion Ban Is Racist & Classist
The fight for Black lives is inextricably linked to the fight against abortion bans like Tennessee's. → Read More
Abortion Clinics Stay Open During Coronavirus Pandemic
Clinic escorts are social distancing and staying home. But the protestors shouting, “You’re going to hell!” are refusing to. → Read More
Trump’s Birth Control Mandate Rollback Puts Coverage at Risk: What to Know
Trump just announced an end to an Obama-era rule requiring most employers to cover co-pay-free birth control. Here's what to do if you think your coverage is at risk. → Read More
Abortion on TV and in Movies Is Way Too Dramatic — Here’s Why
Abortion plot lines on TV and in movies are fraught and over-the-top — and that does women a huge disservice. → Read More
President Donald Trump Expands Deadly Anti-Abortion Global Gag Rule
In the midst of political chaos in the U.S., let's not forget that President Donald Trump's expansion of the Global Gag Rule will have deadly consequences around the world. → Read More
Bernie Sanders Supports Anti-Choice, Anti-Abortion Democrat for Omaha Mayor
Progressive populist hero Bernie Sanders is campaigning for an anti-choice Democratic male candidate for mayor of Omaha, and it's a slap in the face to women. → Read More
If You're Pitying Tomi Lahren Right Now, You're Missing the Damn Point
Conservative pundit Tomi Lahren, who was suspended from Glenn Beck's network The Blaze for saying she was pro-choice, doesn't deserve your pity. → Read More
Controversial Ruling Threatens Abortion Access in Uruguay and Beyond
In 2012, Uruguay changed its law to allow abortions up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. But a judge's ruling that a woman could not have an abortion without her ex-partner's consent sets a dangerous and possibly globally influential precedent valuing the fetus and father's wishes over those of the pregnant person. → Read More
'We Have to Shift the Table of Power': A Q&A With Reproductive Rights and Justice Leaders
If we let the election extinguish our inner fire and vision of a just future, then that's worse than anything we lost at the polls in terms of votes or anything coming down the pike in the next four years, said Jill Adams, chief strategist for the Self-Induced Abortion Legal Team. → Read More
Why You Need To Care About Ohio's Ridiculously Restrictive Abortion Ban
What to know about the Ohio bill that would ban safe abortions. → Read More
The Harmful, Humiliating Abortion Rule Texas Is About To Enforce
Texas is looking to enforce a new, harmful abortion rule. → Read More
Abortion Coverage, Womens Rights Hyde Amendment Unjust
Why it's time to repeal the Hyde Amendment. → Read More
Why Planned Parenthood's Defense Against GOP Attacks Could Backfire
As Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood have taken center stage, Planned Parenthood supporters are fighting back. Facebook pages like “Humans of Planned Parenthood” have sprung up, with people from across the country sharing their stories of how the organization provided them with quality care. Supporters and Planned Parenthood itself have been quick to note that the bulk of the care… → Read More
Why Abortion Is Losing While Gay Marriage Is Winning
It’s been a wild couple of weeks at the Supreme Court, as a notoriously conservative court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, upheld the Fair Housing Act, and preserved Obamacare subsidies for millions of Americans. Progressives were stunned and delighted at the Supreme Court’s seemingly leftward tilt, cheering Justice Anthony Kennedy for his decisive vote for marriage equality and… → Read More
The GOP’s Latest War On Family Planning
Yet again, House Republicans are taking aim at family planning. Last week, the House Appropriations Labor-HHS Subcommittee released a budget proposal for fiscal year 2016 that would remove all family planning funding under the Title X program. The Title X program provides access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care, including cancer screenings, contraceptive care, STI testing and… → Read More
Jeb Bush’s Solution To Unwed Pregnancies? ‘Ridicule’ Young Mothers
Teen pregnancies would decline if we would publicly shame teen and unwed mothers more, argued Jeb Bush in 1995. In his book Profiles in Character, Jeb Bush dedicated an entire chapter to the need for more shame, titled “The Restoration of Shame.” → Read More
Hey, Texas: Minors Deserve Access To Abortion, Too
Never content to rest on their anti-choice laurels, Texas Republicans have once again passed a bill aimed at restricting abortion access. This time, they’re targeting minors. House Bill 3994 would dramatically overhaul the judicial bypass process in Texas and make it more difficult for vulnerable minors to access safe, legal abortion care. → Read More