The proposal would provide about $3 million for Planned Parenthood and Maine Family Planning, which lost federal Title X funding when they refused to accept restrictions on discussing abortion with their clients.
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Maine Compass: Anniversary reminds that reproductive health is still under attack
Today, the attacks on abortion providers are most often in the courts and state legislatures.
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Trump, a late convert to the cause, attends anti-abortion rally
On the National Mall in Washington, he becomes the first sitting president to speak at the March for Life.
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Maine Compass: Planned Parenthood overlooks Sen. Collins’ entire record on health care
Their focus on abortion ignores all that Collins has done to help all Mainers gain access to care.
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Abortion, immigrants, LGBT rights top Supreme Court’s new term
The court also could be front and center in the presidential campaign itself, especially with health concerns surrounding 86-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Maine Compass: Collins’ vote to confirm Kavanaugh represented best hope to preserve Roe
With the GOP poised to increase its Senate majority around the time of the vote, Kavanaugh’s rejection would have paved the way for a nominee more hostile to the right to choose.
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Our View: Abortion funding and assisted-dying laws can now go into effect
Maine government will no longer discriminate against poor women who need abortions, or prevent the terminally ill from deciding when they have suffered enough.
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Maine Compass: We can’t afford to take abortion rights for granted
A wave of state bans demonstrates the increasing hostility to reproductive choice and women’s autonomy.
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As deadline passes, it’s unclear which ‘people’s veto’ efforts will clear first hurdle
Groups had until Friday evening to turn in petition signatures to town clerks, the first critical step in qualifying to put a ‘people’s veto’ question on the ballot next year.
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Maine Family Planning clinic seeks state funding in response to Trump’s abortion ‘gag rule’
Maine Family Planning lost $2 million in federal funding when it opted out of the Title X program over a ban on abortion referrals and a requirement to separate reproductive health and abortion services.