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Alabama Democrat Wins Special Election Running on Abortion and IVF Access: Marilyn Lands flipped a State House seat in the deep-red state by 25 percentage points ...
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Alabama Democrat Wins Special Election Running on Abortion and IVF Access
Quick Glance: IVF Ruling and Abortion Debate in Alabama Election
  • As the Alabama election approaches, candidates focus on abortion and in vitro fertilization (IVF), with Republicans reinforcing support for IVF and Democrats opposing abortion restrictions.

  • Democrats strategically highlight reproductive issues post Roe v. Wade overturn, viewing the Alabama race as a pivotal test for their stance on abortion.

  • Despite voter resonance on reproductive issues, the election outcome is not expected to significantly alter Republican dominance in the state legislature, but would symbolically mark a notable win for Democrats.

  • The stark divide in candidate strategies underscores the ongoing debate over reproductive rights, shaping the battleground district's electoral landscape with high stakes for both parties.
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A ‘divinely created’ being: States try to define fetal personhood: Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, nearly two dozen states have considered legislation ...
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A ‘divinely created’ being: States try to define fetal personhood
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IVF access, protections are broader in Colorado, despite Alabama embryo ruling: Colorado has protected abortion and increased access for IVF, but some women and ...
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IVF access, protections are broader in Colorado, despite Alabama embryo ...
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Klobuchar says Alabama election bolsters Biden’s Southern push: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said the special election victory in Alabama, where a Democratic ...
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Klobuchar says Alabama election bolsters Biden’s Southern push
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Fears grow over Comstock Act, Justices Thomas, Alito: Abortion rights supporters are sounding the alarm that conservative Supreme Court justices want to use a ...
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Fears grow over Comstock Act, Justices Thomas, Alito
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Scoop: House Democrats grow their GOP target list for 2024: All four candidates are in districts President Biden won in 2020.
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Scoop: House Democrats grow their GOP target list for 2024
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Former US Lawmaker Finally Enjoys Social Policies He Fought for—In Europe: "I saw and felt what it's like to live in a community where everyone can go to ...
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Former US Lawmaker Finally Enjoys Social Policies He Fought for—In Europe
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Harris steps up her role as ambassador to voters shaky on Biden: Polls suggest some young voters and people of color are souring on President Biden ...
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Harris steps up her role as ambassador to voters shaky on Biden
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Support for legal abortion hits new high among US voters: Fox News poll: A record 59 percent of surveyed Americans believe abortion should be legal ...
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Support for legal abortion hits new high among US voters: Fox News poll
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Trump says he’s ‘thinking in terms of’ 15 weeks on possible abortion ban: Former President Trump suggested Tuesday he’s considering support for a ban on ...
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Trump says he’s ‘thinking in terms of’ 15 weeks on possible abortion ban
Quick Glance: Trump expresses support for national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy
  • Donald Trump suggested supporting a national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy.

  • When asked about a specific time limit for the procedure, Trump criticized Democrats for not endorsing such a ban.

  • Trump seemed reluctant to a federal ban, emphasizing that abortion should be a state issue.

  • The discussion on abortion rights is expected to be a key issue in the 2024 election as Democrats and President Biden's campaign clearly oppose Trump's stance.
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Alabama GOP passes bill restricting DEI programs in public schools: The bill, now at Gov. Kay Ivey’s desk, the bill would restrict teaching “divisive concepts” ...
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Alabama GOP passes bill restricting DEI programs in public schools
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Mother who left toddler alone for 10 days when she went on holiday jailed for murder
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Mother who left toddler alone for 10 days when she went on holiday jailed ...
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Montana Supreme Court allows abortion ballot initiative to move forward: Montana’s Supreme Court said a proposed ballot measure to protect abortion can continue ...
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Montana Supreme Court allows abortion ballot initiative to move forward
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Chris Smelley, Sylacauga coach and former South Carolina QB, found safe after disappearing while kayaking in Florida
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Chris Smelley, Sylacauga coach and former South Carolina QB ...
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Birmingham-Southern College to close in May after nearly 170 years: Birmingham-Southern College, a private liberal arts college in Alabama, will close at the end ...
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Birmingham-Southern College to close in May after nearly 170 years
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‘It'll be fine’: Katie Britt says Mike Johnson reassured her ahead of SOTU rebuttal
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‘It'll be fine’: Katie Britt says Mike Johnson reassured her ahead of SOTU ...
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Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama to close at the end of May: Birmingham-Southern College announced Tuesday that its operations will cease by the end of May ...
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Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama to close at the end of May
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Abortions increasing in US despite state bans: Research: Abortion procedures rose in the U.S. last year, even with state abortion bans passed following the ...
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Abortions increasing in US despite state bans: Research
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National monument honoring enslaved Black people set to open in Alabama: The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park and National Monument to Freedom will become the ...
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National monument honoring enslaved Black people set to open in Alabama
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Cougars' Kelsey 'bullish' on future. But can CofC hang on to him?: College of Charleston has won 58 games and been to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments ...
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Cougars' Kelsey 'bullish' on future. But can CofC hang on to him?
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Opinion | 'Why Christians — and Republicans — Should Reconsider the Premise that 'Life Begins at Conception'
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Opinion | 'Why Christians — and Republicans — Should Reconsider the ...
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Alabama Mercedes-Benz Workers Accuse Company of Union-Busting in NLRB Complaint: "It's just plain retaliation from Mercedes, but I'm not going to be ...
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Alabama Mercedes-Benz Workers Accuse Company of Union-Busting in NLRB ...
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House Democrats find new opening to hit GOP on IVF: Democrats are seizing on a right-wing push to restrict IVF access to veterans.
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House Democrats find new opening to hit GOP on IVF
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The Little-Remembered Supreme Court Precedent That Could Protect IVF — and Abortion
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The Little-Remembered Supreme Court Precedent That Could Protect IVF — and ...
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Bryan Stevenson Reclaims the Monument, in the Heart of the Deep South: Doreen St. Félix talks with the “Just Mercy” author and visits the sites he’s built in ...
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Bryan Stevenson Reclaims the Monument, in the Heart of the Deep South
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LGBTQ rights lawyers face potential sanctions over Alabama 'judge shopping': Eleven attorneys at major LGBTQ rights groups and law firms engaged in impermissible ...
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LGBTQ rights lawyers face potential sanctions over Alabama 'judge ...
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Alabama bans DEI in schools and says bathrooms must be designated by ‘biological sex’
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Alabama bans DEI in schools and says bathrooms must be designated by ...
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N.C. GOP nominee compared Planned Parenthood, men with saggy pants to KKK: Mark Robinson, the Republican in a competitive governor’s race, has declared them and ...
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N.C. GOP nominee compared Planned Parenthood, men with saggy pants to KKK
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Breyer signals support for Supreme Court age, term limits: "I don't think that's harmful," Breyer told NBC regarding age and term limits.
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Breyer signals support for Supreme Court age, term limits
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The Endgame in the Battle Over Abortion: The arc of the fetal personhood movement signals where Republicans may be headed.
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The Endgame in the Battle Over Abortion
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RFK Jr. on abortion, vaccines, housing and foreign policy: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the famed Kennedy family, initially sought the Democratic Party's ...
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RFK Jr. on abortion, vaccines, housing and foreign policy
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Alabama senator attacks Democrats, opponents as ‘satanic cult’: Sen. Tommy Tuberville predicted that left-wing mobs are planning chaos around the country to help ...
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Alabama senator attacks Democrats, opponents as ‘satanic cult’
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Britt: I was ‘pretty pumped’ that ‘SNL’ picked Scarlett Johansson to spoof me: Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is giving her seal of approval to Scarlett Johansson’s ...
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Britt: I was ‘pretty pumped’ that ‘SNL’ picked Scarlett Johansson to spoof ...
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Why VP Harris is seen as critical to Biden's reelection campaign: The vice president has been traveling across the country, giving increasingly higher-profile ...
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Why VP Harris is seen as critical to Biden's reelection campaign
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How is abortion shaping 2024? Look at Arizona. : The parties’ scramble in the battleground state eight months ahead of the election is a model for how the issue ...
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How is abortion shaping 2024? Look at Arizona.
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Scoop: Democrats' bill to protect IVF draws GOP support: Rep. Marc Molinaro said in a statement protecting IVF is "just common sense."
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Scoop: Democrats' bill to protect IVF draws GOP support
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Planned Parenthood Action Fund backs Gallego in Arizona Senate race: Abortion rights group Planned Parenthood Action Fund is endorsing Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz ...
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Planned Parenthood Action Fund backs Gallego in Arizona Senate race
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Carlee Russell, Alabama woman who faked her own kidnapping, pleads guilty to charges and avoids jail time
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Carlee Russell, Alabama woman who faked her own kidnapping ...
Quick Glance: Carlee Russell Fined $17,000 for Staging Kidnapping
  • New York Attorney General Letitia James has placed a "blanket lien" on Donald Trump's expansive estate north of New York City.

  • Preparations for seizing his property began after Trump and some of his top executives lost a three-month trial for bank fraud.

  • The AG has effectively placed a lien on all properties owned by Trump, his sons, and some of their companies.

  • The Seven Springs property was a focal point in the bank fraud case against Trump, who tried to develop it for years but ultimately donated a significant portion for conservation.
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What the IVF fight means for the battle for control of Congress: IVF is already showing up in some races. Democrats are trying to tie it to abortion ...
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What the IVF fight means for the battle for control of Congress
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Number of Black women who say they are scared of having children rises: Nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an ...
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Number of Black women who say they are scared of having children rises
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Senate Democrats release ad targeting Ohio GOP candidate Moreno: ‘Even Republicans don’t trust him’
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Senate Democrats release ad targeting Ohio GOP candidate Moreno: ‘Even ...
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Democratic governors see IVF following a familiar post-Dobbs pattern: So-called personhood laws are on a legal collision course with IVF in some states.
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Democratic governors see IVF following a familiar post-Dobbs pattern
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Arizona lawmaker reveals plan to get abortion for nonviable fetus: State Sen. Eva Burch called on the legislature to pass new laws.
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Arizona lawmaker reveals plan to get abortion for nonviable fetus
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IVF Is Still Legal But Anti-Abortion Laws Could Change That: Alabama ruling that caused national furor is part of a growing “personhood” movement.
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IVF Is Still Legal But Anti-Abortion Laws Could Change That
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Welcome to Bristol, where America’s abortion debate is right on your doorstep: The town of Bristol exists at a crossroads, split by the Virginia-Tennessee border ...
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Welcome to Bristol, where America’s abortion debate is right on your ...
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Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses; SCOTUS takes on abortion pill case
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Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses; SCOTUS takes on abortion ...
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Johnson: My chat with man who stoked the anti-DEI flames in Alabama: Earl H. Tilford and I had an engaging conversation. I listened, trying to hear just how he ...
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Johnson: My chat with man who stoked the anti-DEI flames in Alabama
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For one Yankees couple, the sudden fight over IVF hits close to home: ‘Everyone deserves to have a family’
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For one Yankees couple, the sudden fight over IVF hits close to home: ...
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5 Alabama cities to visit this spring break: While the beach is an obvious choice when it comes to planning a spring break road trip, it's definitely not ...
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5 Alabama cities to visit this spring break
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'This is the beginning, not the end': Republicans brace for continued abortion rights fallout
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'This is the beginning, not the end': Republicans brace for continued ...
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Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery documents the experience of enslaved Africans
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Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery documents the experience of ...
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Mifepristone under scrutiny: Supreme Court rather skeptical about restrictions on abortion pills
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Mifepristone under scrutiny: Supreme Court rather skeptical about ...