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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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
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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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inElections, Maine, News, Politics
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.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
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.
Posted inNation & World, News
Federal judge blocks Missouri’s 8-week abortion ban
A U.S. district judge put a pause on the law as a legal challenge against it plays out in court, which could take months.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Another View: Mainers have no obligation to sign people’s veto petitions
No one should support a position with which they disagree just to send the question to the voters.
Posted inMaine, Nation & World, News
In Maine and nation, swift fallout from quitting federal family planning program
Planned Parenthood and Maine Family Planning are having to tap reserves, intensify fundraising efforts.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: People’s veto a check on power
The direct voice of the Maine voter should be heard on the most controversial laws.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Abortion foe broke law in 2015 Planned Parenthood protest, Maine jury says
Brian Ingalls of Lisbon yelled loudly enough outside the Portland clinic that patients and workers inside were disrupted.