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Wyoming Governor Signs Abortion Ban

March 9, 2026 at 5:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) signed a bill into law on Monday banning abortion in the state after a “fetal heartbeat” has been detected, ABC News reports.

Filed Under: Abortion

U.S. Moves Pregnant Immigrant Girls to Texas

March 1, 2026 at 8:33 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“All unaccompanied immigrant children who are pregnant, many by rape, are being moved to a single facility in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services in a significant human rights violation,” The Guardian reports.

Filed Under: Abortion, Immigration

Anti-Abortion Activists Grow Angry with Trump

January 15, 2026 at 7:32 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The anti-abortion movement’s embrace of President Donald Trump paid them major dividends in his first term: The Supreme Court justices he appointed overturned Roe v. Wade, and state abortion bans swept the country,” Politico reports.

“But a year into his second term, with little movement on their top policy priorities and mounting frustration with Trump’s rhetoric on government funding of abortion, IVF, and other hot-button issues, some activists are questioning the alliance — and their own place within the GOP.”

Said Family Research Council president Tony Perkins: “This type of rhetoric runs the risk of moving this party from a majority party to a minority party. With elections being so close, you don’t want people being frustrated or disappointed. You want people motivated.”

Filed Under: 2026 Campaign, Abortion


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Abortion Politics May Block Obamacare Deal

January 6, 2026 at 1:28 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told reporters that there’s “potentially a path forward” on Obamacare subsidy talks, but the Hyde amendment, which blocks federal money for abortions, remains “probably the most challenging part of this.”

Said Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), in response to President Trump asking GOP lawmakers for flexibility: “I’m not flexible on the value of every child’s life.”

Filed Under: Abortion, Health Care

Abortion Stays Legal in Wyoming

January 6, 2026 at 1:10 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws that include the country’s first explicit ban on abortion pills, ruling Tuesday that they violate the state constitution,” the AP reports.

Filed Under: Abortion

Abortion No Longer Top Priority for Democrats

January 2, 2026 at 7:33 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Up to seven states will vote on abortion rights this year. But recent polling indicates that Democrats may not be able to count on the issue in their efforts to drive votes in the 2026 midterms, after making abortion rights the centerpiece of their pitch to voters in the elections that followed the fall of Roe v Wade,” The Guardian reports.

Filed Under: Abortion

Court Allows Trump-Backed Cuts to Planned Parenthood

December 31, 2025 at 10:38 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Reuters: “Tuesday’s 1st Circuit panel, comprised only of judges appointed by Democratic presidents, said the Trump administration had demonstrated it was likely to prevail on appeal in establishing the law was not ambiguous and that Congress had the power to make such changes.”

Filed Under: Abortion

Josh Hawley Looks to Revive Anti-Abortion Politics

December 12, 2025 at 11:39 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and his wife Erin Hawley “are launching a new dark money group to shine a spotlight on anti-abortion ballot measures and pro-family policies,” Axios reports.

“After Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, the Republican establishment quietly moved on from abortion politics. The Hawleys want to revive the issue.”

Filed Under: Abortion

Abortion a Major Obstacle in the GOP Healthcare Fight

December 7, 2025 at 7:24 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As congressional Republicans weighed how to approach the fight over extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, powerful antiabortion groups saw an opportunity,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Led by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, antiabortion activists began to pressure Republicans during the fall government shutdown to further restrict abortion coverage from insurance plans made cheaper by ACA subsidies at the heart of the dispute.”

“The activists’ warning was simple: Extending subsidies without such limits was a line Republicans must not cross to keep social conservative support in next year’s midterm elections.”

Filed Under: Abortion, Health Care

Judge Blocks Effort to Defund Planned Parenthood

July 28, 2025 at 1:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A federal judge on Monday ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding as the nation’s largest abortion provider fights President Donald Trump’s administration over efforts to defund the organization in his signature tax legislation,” the AP reports.

Filed Under: Abortion

Miscarriage Becomes Life-Threatening After Abortion Bans

July 2, 2025 at 12:46 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

ProPublica: “Before states banned abortion, one of the gravest outcomes of early miscarriage could easily be avoided: Doctors could offer a dilation and curettage procedure, which quickly empties the uterus and allows it to close, protecting against a life-threatening hemorrhage.”

“But because the procedures, known as D&Cs, are also used to end pregnancies, they have gotten tangled up in state legislation that restricts abortion.”

“Reports now abound of doctors hesitating to provide them and women who are bleeding heavily being discharged from emergency rooms without care, only to return in such dire condition that they need blood transfusions to survive.”

Filed Under: Abortion

Wisconsin High Court Invalidates 1849 Abortion Law

July 2, 2025 at 9:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Women in Wisconsin will continue to have access to abortion services under a new ruling from the state’s highest court that invalidates a 176-year-old state law that had banned abortions in nearly every situation,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

“The decision ends three years of tumult over the issue following the 2022 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade, which had provided women nationwide with a constitutional right to abortions.”

Filed Under: Abortion

Justices Allow States to Defund Planned Parenthood

June 26, 2025 at 11:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“States can remove Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, saying that individuals on Medicaid cannot sue if a state denies them access to their chosen health care provider,” NOTUS reports.

“The 6-3 opinion paves the way for other Republican states to ban Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs without repercussion.”

Politico: Supreme Court clears way for states to kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid.

Filed Under: Abortion, Health Care

Republican’s Pregnancy Collided With Abortion Politics

June 22, 2025 at 4:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) arrived at the emergency room in May 2024 terrified by what she had just learned: Her pregnancy could kill her at any moment,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“It would only get worse. The Florida Republican needed a shot of methotrexate to help expel her ectopic pregnancy, in which there is no way for the embryo to survive. Her state’s six-week abortion ban had just taken effect. She said doctors and nurses who saw her said they were worried about losing their licenses or going to jail if they gave her drugs to end her pregnancy.”

“She began arguing her case. The staff resisted, she said, even though doctors earlier that day estimated she was just five weeks pregnant. There was no heartbeat, and her life was at risk. She pulled up the state law on her phone for hospital workers to read. She said she called the governor’s office late at night for help, but no one picked up.”

“Hours later, doctors finally agreed to give her the methotrexate.”

Filed Under: Abortion

Republicans Find New Way to Block Abortion Access

June 9, 2025 at 1:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The reconciliation bill has given Republicans a way to target abortion access in states that legally protect it: threatening their federal health care funding,” NOTUS reports.

“House Republicans added a last-minute provision to their reconciliation bill via a manager’s amendment that would block certain Affordable Care Act funds from going to state health plans that cover abortion services. There are currently 13 states — California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state — with laws in the books that require insurers to cover abortion.”

Filed Under: Abortion

Georgia Abortion Law Keeps Brain Dead Woman Alive

May 19, 2025 at 12:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead after a medical emergency has been on life support for three months to let the fetus grow enough to be delivered, a move her family says a hospital told them was required under the state’s strict anti-abortion law,” the AP reports.

Filed Under: Abortion

GOP Moderates Opposed to Defunding Planned Parenthood

May 7, 2025 at 11:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Moderate Republicans will likely be anti-abortion advocates’ biggest hurdle in their mission to ban federal funding from Planned Parenthood in a reconciliation package — and some are already voicing their opposition,” NOTUS reports.

“Reps. Mike Lawler, Brian Fitzpatrick and Jen Kiggans were among the moderate Republicans who made it clear to House GOP leadership that they oppose adding a measure to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood to a reconciliation bill.”

Filed Under: Abortion

The Anti-Abortion Movement Readies Its Gameplan

May 7, 2025 at 6:02 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The nation’s most influential anti-abortion groups have a new plan to roll back access to the procedure for millions of Americans in what they’re calling the ‘biggest opportunity for the pro-life movement’ since toppling Roe v. Wade,” Politico reports.

“The effort, which the groups have privately named ‘Rolling Thunder,’ is the movement’s first concerted attempt under the second Trump administration to target abortion pills, and aims to convince the FDA, Congress and courts to crack down on their use.”

Filed Under: Abortion

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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