Lisa Demuth's general-election pitch is bipartisan and pragmatic. To win her party's nomination, she told activists she 'fights and wins for the MAGA agenda.' She wrote a fetal-heartbeat abortion ban, blocked an assault-weapons ban after the Annunciation shooting, and still won't say Joe Biden legitimately won in 2020.
Two weeks before Election Day, Collins told a Maine TV station she had no way to anticipate Kavanaugh's vote to overturn Roe. Her own 2018 floor speech named the concern, and Trump had promised justices who would do it.
A ProPublica investigation traces how Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor, helped Idaho revive its ban, threatened hospitals over a court-approved abortion and prosecuted a midwife — and what anti-abortion groups expect him to do with a Senate seat.
Lawler tells Hudson Valley voters he opposes a federal abortion ban. He doesn't bring up his two votes for Trump's budget bill, which blocked Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood for a year — including for cancer screenings and birth control.
On Alabama talk radio, Barry Moore scolded feminists and gay Americans for not joining his 'spiritual battle' against Islam. His own votes put him on the other side of their rights.
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Ann Wagner's bill, H.R. 21, targets doctors and nurses over an issue federal law already addressed more than twenty years ago.
Missouri's Republican legislature put Amendment 3 on the November ballot to undo the 2024 abortion-rights vote and write a ban into the state constitution. A campaign staffer says their 'number one' pitch is the measure's ban on gender-affirming care — which is already illegal in Missouri.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
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Banning abortion in their own states wasn't enough.