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[13] [14] The party's platform calls gay people "abnormal" and opposes "all efforts to validate transgender identity." [13] In 2022, Tony Gonzales was the only member of the Texas Republican delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives to vote in favor of codifying the right to same-sex marriage into federal law. [14]
Ann Stone, as honoree at Women's eNews 21 Leaders 2012. Republicans for Choice was founded in 1989 by conservative fundraiser and activist Ann Stone, first wife of Roger Stone, [1] at the suggestion of Lee Atwater, a former chairman of the RNC, to counter the Republican Party's perceived increasing focus on anti-abortion candidates and political platform, and Stone brought this agenda to the ...
As of December 14, 2021, 39 cities in Texas had outlawed abortion within their city boundaries and declared themselves "sanctuary cities for the unborn." [206] [better source needed] The first city to do so was the city of Waskom, Texas, which enacted its local abortion ban on June 13, 2019. [207]
The Texas Legislature banned abortion care as early as five weeks into pregnancy in September 2021, nearly a year before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — the case that protected a ...
The unemployment rate was at 3.5% in February 2020 compared to 6.4% when Trump left office in January 2021, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. - Brad Sylvester
Texas has multiple abortion bans, ... DC in 2021. Credit - Mandel Ngan—AFP via Getty Images ... Texas went from reporting more than 50,000 abortions in 2020 to 34 recorded through September of ...
The party platform previously called for a constitutional amendment to protect unborn children. Now, it says abortion should be left to the states. Why the New Republican Platform Is Moderate on ...
As of July 2018, three Republican Senators had identified themselves as "pro-choice", or pro-abortion rights, Shelley Moore Capito, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski. [9] "Collins, Murkowski, and Capito have voted for both pro- and anti-abortion legislation, but all three back the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion". [10]