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Another Fight Looms on a 20-Week Abortion Ban for D.C.

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is taking a preemptive strike against a potential abortion ban.

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is taking a preemptive strike against a potential abortion ban.

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What Akin’s Supporters Are Saying (and He Has Many)

Rep. Trent Franks. Stephanie Snyder/Cronkite News Service.

Republican leaders are running far from him, but anti-choice politicians and activists couldn’t be prouder.

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What Do Responses to a DC 20-Week Abortion Ban Tell Us About the Habits of the Prochoice Movement?

Roe is not the standard for abortion; women’s decision-making is. It deserves legal protection because it is a fact of women’s existence; it is not a fact because it is legally protected.

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Open Letter to Representative Trent Franks: What Caring About Women and Babies Really Looks Like

Dear Representative Trent Franks and other anti-choice politicians: Stop claiming you care about women and babies. You didn’t care about me when I was raped, and you don’t care about the suffering of American people. How dare you suggest otherwise.

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House Judiciary Committee Passes D.C. Abortion Ban With No Exceptions for Fetal Anomalies or Health of the Mother

Phoenix New Times.

H.R. 3803, sponsored by Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ), denies a woman access to a medically necessary abortion and includes no exceptions for situations where continuing a pregnancy will place at risk a woman’s health or ability to have children in the future.

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Lila Rose and Live Action Decline to Respond to Questions About “Gotcha” Video, Failure of PRENDA

While researching PRENDA, RH Reality Check reached out to Lila Rose’s PR representative with some questions about her video and the pending legislation. And we got… crickets.

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Dear Mayor Franks, Can You Get On This Cockroach Issue?

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Activists ask “D.C.’s New Mayor” Trent Franks to assist on more city issues.

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