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A caucus that includes most House Republicans endorses a 15-week national abortion ban and a bill that could eliminate IVF access A caucus representing most House Republican lawmakers endorsed a national abortion ban on Wednesday.  The Republican Study Committee (RSC), which includes nearly 80 percent of all House Republicans, released its 2025 budget proposal on Wednesday, titled “Fiscal Sanity to Save America.” Despite being billed as a budget plan, it is a highly ideological document. …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The French parliament recently voted in favor of enshrining the right to abortion into the country's constitution. While crowds celebrated outside, the slogan "my body my choice" was projected onto the Eiffel Tower in giant letters. Although concerns about barriers and access still remain, women in France are now…

When confronted about describing immigrants with terms like “vermin” and “poisoning the blood” favored by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, former president Donald Trump not only defended using Nazi rhetoric but repeated it: “I didn’t know that, but that’s what they say. Because our country is being poisoned.” Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News’ Howard Kurtz that aired less than 24 hours after the former president said at a rally that some migrants to the U.S. are “not people… these are…

Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, over a year ago. This new data point was shared by Bumble’s Interim General Counsel, Elizabeth Monteleone, speaking on a panel this afternoon at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. The panel focused on the “healthcare crisis in Post-Roe America” and featured women who had both sued and spoken out about the need to have doctors, not politicians,…

The 2024 State of the Union address comes at a pivotal — even perilous — moment for President Joe Biden. He has not been actively campaigning, reflecting a selection cycle in which he’s running all but unopposed for the Democratic nomination, despite losing a few delegates in American Samoa this week. Biden is doing few unscripted events, and when he does show up in informal public appearances — going on late night shows, for example — he’s frequently protested by activists demanding a cease to hostilities in Gaza.…

Microsoft Engineer Shane Jones is warning the world that his company’s AI image generator, Copilot Designer, needs to be removed from public use. In an interview with CNBC Wednesday, Jones shares how the AI tool produces disturbing, strange images through basic prompts. He says Microsoft has largely ignored him, so he’s going public and asking government regulators to intervene.Warning! Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots Next“This is really not a safe model,” Jones told CNBC. “Over the last three months, I have…

A container holding boxes of Mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, April 20, 2023.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersCVS and Walgreens will start selling the abortion pill mifepristone this month at certain pharmacy locations in states where it is legal to do so, spokespeople for the companies told CNBC on Friday. CVS and Walgreens received certification from the Food and Drug Administration to dispense the commonly used pill at their…

"I’m hearing about 15 weeks. I haven’t decided yet," said Trump during a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity After it was reported that Trump intends to support a national abortion ban, the Republican primary frontrunner floated the idea of a 15-week ban during a Fox News interview at the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday. When discussing support for in vitro fertilization (which GOP lawmakers claimed to support, then blocked a bill this week to protect IVF access nationwide), Trump…

Nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision, abortion access in the U.S. is under serious threat. “Getting an abortion today requires more money, more time, and more planning than it ever has before,” says Oriaku Njoku, executive director of the National Network of Abortion Funds. She adds that the 100 member organizations that are part of her group have noticed a concurrent decline in donations to abortion funds — a dropoff that couldn’t come at a worse time. Enter Olivia…

Even though Gov. Greg Abbott openly admitted he knows very little about in-vitro fertilization (IVF), he signaled he is eager for his state of Texas to put its “pro-life” stamp on the issue after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that IVF embryos are “extrauterine children” and should be treated as people under the law. Abbott on Sunday appeared on CNN’s State of the Union where host Dana Bash asked if he agreed with the Alabama ruling that embryos are human beings under the law and whether families in Texas should…