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![The vice president of the Heritage Foundation, Roger Severino, speaks during the "Europa Viva 24" conference organized by far right wing party Vox at Palacio de Vistalegre on May 19, 2024, in Madrid, Spain.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0711-roger--800x600.jpg)
Project 2025 Aims to Turn HHS Into Far Right Anti-Abortion “Department of Life”
The author of the Project 2025 section on HHS also wants the department to reverse the FDA’s approval of mifepristone.
![The Arkansas State Capitol is pictured in Little Rock, Arkansas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0711-arkansas-state-capitol-400x300.jpg)
State Officials Try to Reject Arkansas Abortion Ballot Measure on Technicality
Organizers are fighting to keep reproductive rights on the ballot despite interference by the GOP secretary of state.
![Rep Sylvia Garcia holds a sign reading "REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM NOW" while speaking quietly to Teresa Leger Fernandez, standing beside her](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0710-texas-abortion-400x300.jpg)
TX Officials Don’t Know How Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers Spend Tax Dollars
But that hasn’t stopped the cash from flowing, as Texas leads the nation in funding for “crisis pregnancy centers.”
![Former President Donald Trump walks on stage to deliver the keynote address at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Policy Conference at the Washington Hilton on June 22, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0708-trump-400x300.jpg)
RNC Plans to Strategically Conceal Trump’s, GOP’s Abortion Views
Polling shows nearly two-thirds of voters in swing states back abortion rights in all or most circumstances.
![Abortion rights supporters cheer as a proposed Kansas constitutional amendment removing the right to an abortion fails, on August 2, 2022, in Overland Park, Kansas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1242301774-400x300.jpg)
Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Ban
In a 5-1 ruling striking down two laws, the court found that the state constitution protects the right to abortion.
![Former President Donald Trump is flanked by Senate Republicans as he gives remarks to the press at the National Republican Senatorial Committee building on June 13, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0705-trump-r-400x300.jpg)
Will Internal Division Over Trump’s Abortion Flip-Flop Threaten GOP Convention?
Don’t be fooled: The men in charge of the Republican platform committee are dedicated, far right extremists.
![People gather to rally on broad access to the abortion pill outside the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear oral arguments in a bid by President Joe Biden's administration to preserve broad access to abortion pill in Washington D.C., on March 26, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0704-abortion-pr-400x300.jpg)
Reproductive Health Funding Remains “Shackled” as Abortion Rights Are Decimated
During a critical election year, sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations risk losing funding.
![Abortion rights supporters rally outside the Supreme Court on April 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0702-abortion-scotus-400x300.jpg)
SCOTUS Emergency Abortion Decision Has Idaho Physicians Feeling Uncertain
The decision leaves “a level of chaos and confusion across Idaho and, frankly, across the country,” said a legal expert.
![Demonstrators walk together during a “Rally to Stop the Six-Week Abortion Ban” held at Lake Eola Park on April 13, 2024, in Orlando, Florida. Iowa's Supreme Court upheld a similar ban on June 28, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0629-6-week-ban-400x300.jpg)
Iowa Supreme Court Upholds 6-Week Abortion Ban
This comes a day after SCOTUS ruled that doctors in Idaho can temporarily resume emergency abortion care.
![Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump delivers remarks during the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0628-donald-trump-400x300.jpg)
Misinformation and Confusion About Abortion Reigned at Presidential Debate
It was the first debate since the end of federal abortion rights reshaped the country.
![Pro-abortion and anti-abortion protesters demonstrate outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0627-scotus-abortion-400x300.jpg)
Supreme Court Allows Emergency Abortions in Idaho — for Now
The ruling’s impact could be short-lived as the case will now proceed at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
![Demonstrators hold signs as they protest during a rally for reproductive freedom and voting rights on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on October 3, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0626-m-400x300.jpg)
Michigan Judge Blocks Law Requiring 24-Hour Wait Before Abortion
The judge cited a 2022 ballot initiative that she said “dramatically” altered how abortion could be regulated.
![President Joe Biden speaks during an event hosted by the Democratic National Committee at the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C., on October 18, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0625-restore-roe-400x300.jpg)
Democrats’ Support for Israel Is Weakening the Reproductive Rights Movement
Reproductive justice is not compatible with imperialism, militarism and colonialism.