Polls: Society & Politics

GOP senators vote against PACT act, a bill to help veterans impacted by toxic substances

Republicans Go To Bat For Billionaires Targeted By Democratic Tax Plan

How a 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Who Traveled for an Abortion Became Part of a Political Firestorm

Florida court rules pregnant 16-year-old not ‘mature’ enough to have an abortion

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

• Expands Medicare benefits: free vaccines (2023), $35/month insulin (2023) and caps out-of-pocket drug
  costs to an estimated $4,000 or less in 2024 and settling at $2,000 in 2025
• Lowers energy bills: cuts energy bills by $500 to $1,000 per year
• Makes historic climate investment: reduces carbon emissions by roughly 40% by 2030
• Lowers health care costs: saves the average enrollee $800/year in the ACA marketplace, allows Medicare
  to negotiate 100 drugs over the next decade, and requires drug companies to rebate back price increases
  higher than inflation
• Creates manufacturing jobs: more than $60 billion invested will create millions of new domestic clean
  manufacturing jobs
• Invests in disadvantaged communities: cleaning up pollution and taking steps to reducing environmental
  injustice with $60 billion for environmental justice
• Closes tax loopholes used by wealthy: a 15% corporate minimum tax, a 1% fee on stock buybacks and
  enhanced IRS enforcement
• Protects families and small business making $400,000 or less

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

• No More Lead Pipes
• High-Speed Internet Access
• Better Roads and Bridges
• Investments in Public Transit
• Upgrade Airports and Ports
• Investment in Passenger Rail
• Network of Electric Vehicle Chargers
• Upgrade Power Infrastructure
• Resilient Infrastructure
• Investment in Environmental Remediation

CHIPS for America Act & FABS Act

• designed to stop relying on China and India for technology production
• semiconductor manufacturing grants
• research investments
• investment tax credit for chip manufacturing
• supports enactment of an investment tax credit for semiconductor design

A woman in Louisiana said that she has been told that she must carry a fetus without a skull and part of its head to term or travel out of state to recieve an abortion.

Nancy Davis, a mother of one, is 13 weeks pregnant. Several weeks ago, an initial ultrasound revelead to Ms Davis that the fetus would have no chance of surviving — but because Louisiana’s abortion ban does not include an exception for acrania, the condition the fetus is suffering from, she cannot get a legal abortion in the state.

If Ms Davis does want to get an abortion, she will have to travel out of state to Florida. But time is running out for her to make a decision: Florida has banned abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, giving Ms Davis a small window to schedule an appointment and arrange her travel should she decide to get the procedure.

Louisiana is among the Republican-led states that passed extremely restrictive abortion bans to take effect in a post-Roe v Wade landscape. The state has banned all abortions except for cases in which the mother’s life is in jeopardy or in some cases in which the fetus is nonviable.

Louisiana woman forced to carry fetus missing skull to term