MAGA Republicans Want To Take Us Back 50 Years

This piece was originally published in the April 29, 2022 edition of CAP Action’s newsletter, the Progress Report. Subscribe to the Progress Report here.

“Republican-controlled state legislatures have been emboldened by this extremist Supreme Court to pass unconstitutional bans on abortion. Millions of Americans’ reproductive rights are at serious risk.” – Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

With a 6-3 extreme right-wing majority in the U.S. Supreme Court, states across the country have started to pass even more restrictive—and wildly unpopular—bans on abortion care. 

Laws such as those passed in Oklahoma, Florida, Mississippi, and other states around the country are unconstitutional—but that only matters if we have a court that will uphold the law. Reproductive rights are more at risk than at any point since the decision inRoe v. Wade made access to safe and legal abortion a constitutional right in 1973.

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In the news

• According to the House panel investigating the response to the coronavirus pandemic, Trump administration officials spent the early days of the pandemic downplaying the danger and overriding the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

What we’re reading

• “Vaccines for young kids could be available in June, FDA official says” by Laurie McGinley and Carolyn Y. Johnson (The Washington Post)
• “Biden honors Ohio teacher of the year” by Molly Martinez (ABC News)
• “The Trumpian right keeps pushing rule of law to the brink. But the law is winning” by Norman L Eisen and Dennis Aftergut (The Guardian)
• “Ron DeSantis is waging an all-out war on Florida residents’ civil rights” by Adrian Cole (The American Independent)
• “Congress can’t let drug firms price-gouge” by Kathy Saulsberry (Arizona Capitol Times) 
• “Energy chief ‘optimistic’ Congress will act on clean energy before November” by Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech (The Hill)
• “At Oklahoma abortion clinics, each day could be the last for care as new laws loom” by Shefali Luthra (The 19th)

This piece was originally published in the April 29, 2022 edition of CAP Action’s newsletter, the Progress Report. Subscribe to the Progress Report here.