Antiabortion

We don’t know whether former Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, had any leftover embryos after they availed themselves of the advanced reproductive technology known as in vitro fertilization to become the parents of their three children, who are now adults.In November 2022, after the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion, the virulently antiabortion Pence told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the couple had struggled with infertility for years and that he would never dream of trying to stop others…

A medical journal has retracted two studies examining the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone after a federal judge in Texas cited them when ruling that the drug should be taken off the market.The studies, both retracted because of methodology problems and conflicts of interest, claimed abortions involving mifepristone are associated with an increased risk of serious complications compared with procedural abortions. Those conclusions are in contrast with hundreds of studies in the past two decades that have found…

Data broker company Near Intelligence has been accused of tracking user visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations and handing over that data to an anti-abortion ad campaign. In a letter from Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) to the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission, Wyden demanded that federal regulators ensure that all location and device data gathered by Near is deleted and that the SEC investigate whether the company made misleading statements to investors in its filings. “Near…

The latest attraction (?) to hit the Sphere in Las Vegas is an anti-abortion activist, who was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 7, after climbing to the top of the venue.  Las Vegas police confirmed the climber had been arrested around 11:30 a.m. local time after responding to reports of “an individual scaling a building near the 200 block of Sands Avenue.” The LVMPD did not immediately return Rolling Stone’s request for more info, or an arrest report, though the climber appears to be a man named Maison DesChamps, who…

A man climbed to the top of the Las Vegas Sphere on Wednesday just days before the Super Bowl takes place in the city, according to local news outlet KTNV. The man, Maison DesChamps, was videotaped crawling up the side of the 367-foot Sphere by nervous onlookers. He posted a reel saying he climbed the building to raise money for an anti-abortion rights project. Onlookers nervously recorded the situation on social media.'More People Need to Know About This History': A Black Astronaut Speaks About Race and SpaceThe Las…

As the chair of Alliance for a Pro-Life Alabama in 2018, Cole Wagner helped muscle into the Alabama Constitution a new amendment declaring the state recognized “the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children.” On Friday, the Alabama Political Reporter broke the news that Wagner had been arrested for the sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12.  A copy of the indictment was not immediately available, and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department did not respond to inquiries about Wagner’s…

Google has received an estimated $10.2 million over the past two years for promoting misleading anti-abortion centers in its search results, according to a new report from the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). The analysis highlights how the internet’s biggest search provider tacitly profits off of advertisements that can harm users.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AI Often called “crisis pregnancy centers” these anti-abortion facilities tend to pose as medical clinics.…

ROSEVILLE, Calif. —  At Sierra Pregnancy and Health, Executive Director Cary Wilcox beams with pride holding a plastic model of what will soon be a new mobile clinic thanks to a flood of donations after its “biggest year ever.”Outside the nondescript nonprofit just 20 miles from the California capital, a sign advertises “abortion pill reversal” — a practice involving the hormone progesterone that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists deems “unethical” and “not supported by science.”The facility is…

Anti-abortion demonstrators celebrate outside the United States Supreme Court as the court rules in the Dobbs v Women's Health Organization abortion case, overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersAn anti-abortion group on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to keep restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone in place while the battle over the medication's legal status plays out.Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily blocked those…

On Friday, federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk handed down a decision further restricting abortion access nationwide by suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, the most common and safe pill used for medication abortion. Another ruling, from a federal judge in Washington state, ordered the F.D.A. to make no changes affecting the drug’s availability. This sets up a clash in the courts. The judge in Texas has stayed his order for seven days to allow the F.D.A. to appeal. The same antiabortion…