Congressional Republicans weighing whether to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies face a decision similar to the one that confronted anti-abortion Democrats 15 years ago, when they voted for the law despite the staunch opposition of anti-abortion activists.

Voters in 2024 passed Proposition 139, a constitutional amendment guaranteeing Arizonans the right to abortion, with nearly 62% support statewide. An AZCIR analysis shows Republican lawmakers responded by proposing bills and backing court actions that could narrow its reach.

Overall, Trump’s first year back in the White House was an unmitigated disaster for American women and trans people, a relentless series of attacks on the social safety net, the healthcare infrastructure, and 60 years of progress on civil rights. But on abortion, his approach has been more slow-walk than shock-and-awe.

It’s easy to forget that Texas’s bounty bill, S.B. 8, was once at the epicenter of the nation’s abortion politics.

The result of an ongoing trial in Kansas City could either widely expand abortion access in the metro or sharply curtail it indefinitely.