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A Democratic-aligned group launches a $2.5 million ad campaign to undermine Sen. Susan Collins on abortion rights, highlighting her vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh, her role in the Roe v. Wade overturn, and her support for Trump-appointed judges; the effort aims to flip Maine’s Senate seat in 2026, with allied groups renewing grassroots outreach after a candidate shakeup.
9-1-1 actress Justene Alpert disclosed that she terminated her December 2025 pregnancy after doctors diagnosed a rare genetic disease with high fetal risks. She described the decision as traumatic and painful, shared that their baby boy, Mads Mason Trueblood, is in heaven, and spoke of the unwavering support from her husband Mason Trueblood, hoping her story helps others facing similar choices.
Four years after the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v Wade, Mika Brzezinski highlights how stricter state abortion bans have limited lifesaving pregnancy care, created a climate of fear among clinicians, and led to tragic cases such as a Texas miscarriage patient who died after delayed care, as reported by ProPublica.
House Freedom Caucus members urged Speaker Mike Johnson to advance a third reconciliation bill that is fully paid for, extends a federal abortion funding ban, and accords priority to an America-First national-security agenda—including funding for the Iran war—while also calling for eliminating clean-energy tax credits and other reforms. The push comes as Johnson seeks Trump’s backing to move a floor vote amid internal GOP disputes, with other updates touching AI-labeling proposals, data-center moratoriums, and debates over elections legislation.
New focus groups show swing voters are still angry with Republicans over abortion. While many voters support a woman's right to choose, they oppose sweeping state bans, suggesting abortion may still influence tight 2026 races—especially in states with restrictive laws and in key Senate and governor contests.
Voters in Virginia, Nevada, Idaho and Missouri will weigh abortion-rights ballot measures that could force Republican candidates to address the issue in the fall, while Democrats hope the questions boost turnout and help flip districts. GOP officials largely avoid the topic, provoking anger from anti-abortion groups, as major advocacy outfits plan and spend tens of millions to influence outcomes. Past referendums have mixed results, but organizers say abortion access remains a potent midterm driver that could reshape campaigns this year.
A Missouri judge ruled that state abortion restrictions violate a voter-approved constitutional amendment, potentially expanding access; the attorney general plans to appeal, and abortion is poised to be on November’s ballot to undo the amendment, highlighting ongoing debates over reproductive rights as Missourians have often traveled to neighboring states for abortion services.
A Jackson County judge permanently struck down most of Missouri’s abortion regulations—including a 72-hour waiting period and licensing hurdles—while preserving an in-person doctor visit requirement for medication abortions and a physician-only rule. The ruling opens access to medication abortion for Missourians for the first time since 2018, with Planned Parenthood planning to offer it next week; the state plans to appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. The decision comes amid long-running national and state debates over abortion and follows voters approving a constitutional right to abortion up to fetal viability.
Georgia GOP hopeful Rick Jackson is under fire after a leaked recording captured him telling a voter that women who claim rape to obtain abortion should 'prove' it; the remarks come as Jackson, a MAGA billionaire, pulled off a runoff upset over Trump-backed Burt Jones and heads toward a November race against Keisha Lance Bottoms. Democrats seized on the clip to attack conservative abortion restrictions, while Jackson's campaign insists he supports Georgia's current law, which permits rape/incest exceptions only with a police report.
More than a dozen Republican attorneys general urged the EPA to classify the abortion drug mifepristone as a drinking-water contaminant, claiming abortion-pill remnants pollute waterways — a contention with little scientific backing that critics say is part of a broader anti-abortion political push amid safety reviews and access battles.
Trump unexpectedly endorsed Rep. Mike Collins for Georgia’s U.S. Senate race after private talks about Collins’s abortion stance, a late move that could shift the runoff against Derek Dooley as voters weigh electability.
In his forthcoming memoir Communion, Vice President JD Vance says his 2021 remark calling Kamala Harris and other Democrats "childless cat ladies" was boneheaded and purposely provocative, a stumble that distracted from his point about concerns over declining birth rates. The book also traces his faith journey, recounts a meeting with Pope Francis, and frames his abortion stance within the post-Roe era, noting his opposition to Ohio’s 2023 abortion-rights referendum even as it passed.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the founder’s free-speech challenge linked to an anti-abortion student group, leaving lower-court rulings intact and effectively ending the challenge to campus-speech restrictions.
A Tribeca-premiered documentary, Hollywood Does Abortion, argues that decades of on-screen abortion stories cast the procedure as dangerous or shameful, shaping public attitudes from the Maude two-episode arc in the 1970s to later shows like Roseanne, Party of Five, and Sex and the City; it contends writers used abortion as dramatic device rather than reflecting accurate realities, notes that abortion is relatively safe and common, and highlights a post-Dobbs era with more abortion portrayals alongside ongoing real-world access barriers.
After the Supreme Court preserved access to telemedicine abortions, anti-abortion groups intensified pressure on the Trump administration to act on abortion pills and funding for Planned Parenthood, pressing meetings with the FDA and DOJ and signaling that failure could hurt GOP turnout in the midterms; they want swift use of powers to curb access, including potential moves like the Comstock Act to ban mail-order abortions and defund Planned Parenthood, though some insiders caution the White House ultimately holds the leverage.