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Economic effects of state abortion bans debated by U.S. Senate panel

1 year 8 months ago

WASHINGTON — U.S. senators heard detailed testimony Wednesday on the economic impacts women face and how those considerations can play into whether they seek elective abortion access. The Senate Budget Committee also heard examples of the increased pressures women who need abortions for medical reasons have experienced after more than a dozen states severely restricted […]

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Jennifer Shutt

Can we do worse than Mitch McConnell?

1 year 8 months ago
Mitch McConnell is stepping down as Republican leader in the Senate. Good riddance to him. Still, his departure reminds me of the resignation/firing of Jeff Sessions as attorney general in 2018. When Sessions was initially appointed he seemed to us liberals like pretty much the worst, most ultra-conservative, quasi-racist attorney general imaginable. Then he got ...continue reading "Can we do worse than Mitch McConnell?"
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