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Abortion battles shift to medical emergencies, travel
By Brendan Pierson On December 27, 2023 The legal landscape surrounding abortion has been roiled by uncertainty since the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which had guaranteed abortion rights nationwide. Abortion providers and reproductive rights groups have brought a slew of lawsuits seeking to invalidate new bans…
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Adoption Agencies Under Pressure 18 Months After Roe v Wade Overturned
By Kate Plummer On December 24, 2023 On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court released a ruling overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that protected a pregnant woman’s right to choose to have an abortion “without undue restrictive interference from the government.” Since ruling on the case at the heart of the Supreme Court’s decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health…
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Abortion Activists Are Winning
By Khaleda Rahman On December 27, 2023 In the 18 months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, sending the issue of abortion to the states, abortion rights supporters have won time and time again. Most recently, voters in the increasingly Republican-leaning state of Ohio resoundingly approved an amendment to the state constitution to protect abortion access.…
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Women’s rights and women wronged in 2023
By Agence France-Presse On December 28, 2023 The year saw progress on women’s rights in some countries, such as Spain’s introduction of menstrual leave, France’s bid to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution and the arrival of the #MeToo movement in Taiwan. But there were also setbacks in 2023, from Taliban edicts tightening restrictions on…
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Reproductive rights group urges Ohio prosecutor to drop criminal charge against woman who miscarried
By Julie Carr Symth On December 19, 2023 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The physicians’ group behind Ohio’s newly passed reproductive rights amendment is urging a prosecutor to drop criminal charges against a woman who miscarried in the restroom at her home. Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, a nonpartisan coalition of 4,000 doctors and others, argues in a letter to…
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Redistricting fights across South put future of Voting Rights Act in the spotlight again
By Fredreka Schouten On December 21, 2023 One of the things Edna Courville remembers most about the 1960 presidential election is her mother’s fury as the adults gathered in the dining room of their Minden, Louisiana, home to review the preamble to the US Constitution. They were preparing, she said, for the state’s Jim Crow-era…
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Ohio governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care for minors
By Anumita Kaur On December 26, 2023 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine struck down a bill that would have banned gender-affirming care for minors, breaking from fellow Republican governors’ precedent and preserving such care for residents beyond his state as well, because families of transgender youths who live in states with bans have been traveling to…
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Activists hope pope’s approval of same-sex blessings could ease anti-LGBTQ+ bias and repression
By Nicole Winfield On December 19, 2023 NEW YORK (AP) — A winter weather system moving through the U.S. is expected to wallop the East Coast this weekend with a mix of snow and freezing rain from the southern Appalachians to the Northeast — although it’s too early to say exactly which areas will get…
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