News
Organizers Brace for Resurrection of ‘Zombie’ Abortion Laws
Now, after the fall of Roe, Project 2025 plans to revive the zombie Comstock Act and make it workable.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
October 20, 2024
Abortion
News
Reproductive Rights Forum Featuring Congressional Candidate Ashley Ehasz Warns What’s at Stake for Women This Election
A Trump victory with Republican majorities in Congress using Project 2025 as a playbook could usher in a national abortion ban and further erode women’s rights.
Caroline Craig
October 18, 2024
Opinion
Letters: Lock Trump Up?, A Hurricane of MAGA Lies and Cruelty, Protect Reproductive Rights This Election, Busting Myths on Immigration, and More
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
October 15, 2024
News
Abortion Has Passed Inflation as the Top Election Issue for Women Under 30, Survey Finds
In addition to the presidential election, races for Congress — as well as state offices such as governor, legislators, state supreme court justices and attorneys general — could also help determine abortion policy moving ahead.
AP
October 15, 2024
News
‘Women’s Reproductive Rights Forum’ Comes to Newtown on October 17
Women’s reproductive freedom is on the ballot locally in the congressional race between Democrat Ashley Ehasz and anti-choice Republican incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick.
Caroline Craig
October 4, 2024
News
More Women Are Seeking Sterilizations Post-Dobbs, Experts Say
“It is not surprising that some people will respond to the lack of legal abortion by trying to avoid a pregnancy altogether,” said Diana Greene Foster, a research director in reproductive health at University of California, San Francisco.
Nada Hassanein, Stateline
October 3, 2024
News
Tim Walz Has Experience on a Debate Stage Pinning Down an Abortion Opponent’s Shifting Positions
The Democratic vice presidential nominee can be expected to effectively remind voters at Tuesday’s debate how women’s reproductive freedom is on the ballot in November.
AP
September 30, 2024
Elections
Will Abortion Swing the First Post-Roe Presidential Election?
Throughout this election cycle, polls in the swing states have shown bipartisan support for abortion rights, especially when voters are educated about what abortion bans do.
Sofia Resnick, Author at States Newsroom
September 27, 2024
Opinion
Meet the Newest Abortion Rights Supporters: Men in Red States
When pregnancies go wrong, more men are seeing their partners suffer the horrors of delaying or forgoing care. And they’re speaking out.
Martha Burk
September 25, 2024
Despite Trump’s Federal Funding Cuts to NPR and PBS, WHYY Is on Solid Financial Footing – for Now
May 9, 2025
“But without federal funding, the road ahead becomes more challenging — not just in sustaining what we do now, but in continuing to grow and innovate,” said Bill Marrazzo, President & CEO for WHYY.
Exclusive: Agency Responsible for Report on Student Abuse Allegations at Jamison Elementary School at Risk from Trump Administration’s Proposed Federal Funding Cuts
May 8, 2025
Proposed funding cuts in the draft budget “would impact our ability to do similar investigations and ensure student safety in the future,” said Jennifer Garman, CEO of Philadelphia-based Disability Rights Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senator John Fetterman Raises Alarms with Outburst at Meeting with Union Officials
May 7, 2025
Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.
Bucks County Commissioners Meeting Packed with Residents Fired Up Over Sheriff’s ICE Agreement
May 7, 2025
Critics of the potential local 287(g) partnership raised concerns over racial profiling, wrongful arrests, lack of due process, and community safety. However, supporters also turned out raising the issues of human trafficking, crime, and alleged treason.
Hearings in Harrisburg Show Pennsylvania Lawmakers Are Unable to Find Consensus Around Much-needed Cyber Charter School Reform
May 7, 2025
At the first two hearings, some folks brought receipts, and some brought excuses, while the cyber charters themselves declined to appear at all.
