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Dec 08 2023
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Missouri lawmakers propose allowing homicide charges for women who have abortions
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Some Missouri lawmakers are renewing a call for the state to take an anti-abortion step that goes further than prominent anti-abortion groups want to go and that has not gained much traction in any state so far: a law that would allow homicide charges against women who obtain abortions. Republicans in both the state House and Senate have introduced bills to be considered
Washington PostDec 08 2023
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Missouri lawmakers propose allowing homicide charges for women who have abortions
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Some Missouri lawmakers are renewing a call for the state to take an anti-abortion step that goes further than prominent anti-abortion groups want to go and that has not gained much traction in any state so far: a law that would allow homicide charges against women who obtain abortions. Republicans in both the state House and Senate have introduced bills to be considered
NewsdayJan 30 2024
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Mississippi, Missouri GOP: No popular votes on abortion access
Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi are attempting to prevent voters from having a say over abortion rights, building on anti-abortion strategies seen in other states, including last year in Ohio. Democrats and abortion rights advocates say the efforts are evidence that Republican lawmakers and abortion opponents are trying to undercut democratic processes meant to give voters a
Christian Science MonitorFeb 02 2024
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Republican lawmakers, advocacy group can’t intervene in Wyoming abortion case
As abortion rights remain in limbo in Wyoming amid an ongoing legal battle, one thing is now sure: Republican state lawmakers and an anti-abortion nonprofit can’t join the case. That’s the decision from the Wyoming Supreme Court, which ruled Friday, February 2, that letting the group provide evidence would further politicize the issue. “We knew it was a long shot,” said Marti Halverson, the
Wyoming Public MediaFeb 04 2024
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'This is Fascism': Machete-Wielding Leftist Professor Fired from Third Teaching Gig in a Year
A far-left activist professor has been fired from her third teaching gig in less than a year after a pattern of extreme behavior — this time for making Jewish students uncomfortable with comments about “Zionists.” Shellyne Rodriguez first made headlines in May 2023 when she hurled expletives at pro-life students and vandalized their anti-abortion display at Manhattan’s Hunter College, where
Breitbart NewsFeb 26 2024
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This ballot measure would restore Roe. Abortion rights groups are attacking it.
On the same day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, a law banning nearly all abortions in South Dakota took effect. This so-called trigger law was passed by South Dakota lawmakers in 2005 and immediately became one of the strictest bans in the nation, with no exceptions even for rape or incest.
Now a South Dakota ballot measure to “restore Roe v. Wade” is moving forward,
VoxJan 31 2024
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6 activists convicted of illegally blocking abortion clinic in Tennessee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee jury has convicted six anti-abortion protesters of violating federal laws after they blocked the entrance of a reproductive clinic outside Nashville nearly three years ago. The jury’s decision, handed down late Tuesday after a weeklong trial, marks the latest development in a case that has been closely watched by conservative groups, who have accused the federal
Washington PostNov 15 2023
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Oklahoma Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Enforcement of Abortion Measures
On Tuesday, in a 5-4 ruling, the Oklahoma Supreme court directed a lower court to maintain a temporary ban on three anti-abortion measures, while a legal challenge to five anti-abortion measures continues to play out. The decision reaffirms the notion that the state protects the right to abortion in instances where the woman’s life is in danger, ruling that the three laws that are now
The MessengerJan 20 2024
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Thousands gather to attend March for Life amid massive snowstorm
Thousands of people attended the annual March for Life, joined by high-profile advocates and speakers, in Washington, D.C., on Friday to oppose abortion amid a massive snowstorm that blanketed the city. The March for Life is an annual event held since 1974, the year after the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, to rally anti-abortion activism across the United States, with attendees
WNDMar 12 2024
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Judicial Rulemaking Body Moves To Block Conservative Strategy Behind Abortion Pill Case
Anti-abortion groups initially filed the suit at the federal courthouse in Amarillo, Texas. The location had nothing to do with any claim of harm caused by mifepristone in Amarillo. Instead, they chose that courthouse because they knew that Matthew Kacsmaryk was the only judge who drew cases there. Kacsmaryk, who was nominated by President Donald Trump and has a history of opposing
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