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May 03 2024
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Judge strikes down 2017 law banning doctors from helping minors seek abortions elsewhere
Judge strikes down 2017 law banning doctors from helping minors seek abortions elsewhere A federal judge on Thursday struck down a 2017 Indiana law that prohibited doctors from helping young pregnant patients find less stringent abortion care out of state. Judge Sarah Barker of the Southern District court agreed with the ACLU and Planned Parenthood's contention that preventing doctors from,
IndyStarMay 02 2024
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Rangers' Nathan Eovaldi leaves Thursday's game with right groin tightness
Texas Rangers’ Nathan Eovaldi tosses the rosin bag as he walks behind the mound before throwing to Washington Nationals’ Luis Garcia Jr. in the sixth inning of a baseball game in Arlington, Texas, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Eovaldi left the game with an unknown injury in the inning. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) Texas Rangers right-hander Nathan Eovaldi left Thursday afternoon’s game against
San Diego Union-TribuneApr 27 2024
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The climate crisis is a sexual health and reproductive rights emergency
In the wake of Earth Day, West Africa is facing a historic and deadly heatwave, last month was the tenth hottest month in a row in the U.S., and Americans and people across the globe are already bracing for what scientists are predicting will be yet another record-breaking summer with more extreme heat and weather events in store. Those of us paying attention know it to be true: the climate
SalonOct 11 2023
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Voting begins in Ohio with abortion rights on the line
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In-person voting for a November ballot measure over abortion rights began Wednesday in Ohio, the latest state where voters will decide the issue after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a nationwide right to the procedure last year. Ohio is the only state to put an abortion rights question before voters this fall, making it a testing ground for messaging ahead of the 2024
San Jose Mercury NewsMay 01 2024
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New Florida six-week abortion ban will be felt beyond the state
Florida's six-week abortion ban has come into force, closing the door - for now - on the last abortion access point in the US South.
Anti-abortion campaigners have celebrated the new legislation - which replaces an existing 15-week law - as the gold standard of abortion policy and a major victory in the country's battle over abortion access.
But pro-choice campaigners say the ban
BBC NewsApr 14 2024
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Policing abortion in the name of God
Religion plays an outsized role in American politics. With the collapse of the church into the affairs of the state, the recent Alabama Supreme Court theology-ridden ruling (LePage v. Center For Reproductive Medicine) conferred personhood status to frozen IVF embryos as doing God’s will. Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Parker wrote in the ruling that “human life cannot be wrongfully
Out In JerseyApr 17 2024
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How Arizona's 1864 abortion ban stayed on the books
The near-total abortion ban set to take effect in the coming months was crafted before Arizona was a state — and generations of lawmakers have worked to keep it alive ever since. The big picture: The pre-statehood ban was the law of the land in Arizona until the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe decision made it illegal to enforce. • But the Arizona Supreme Court ruled last week that the
AxiosApr 15 2024
Perspectives Blog
When the Abortion Debate Reshapes the Election
From the CenterThere are swing voters, and then there are swing voters. But there are two voter groups in particular — both situated close to the center of the political spectrum — who are especially influential in the outcome of American presidential campaigns. As a direct result of the increasingly heated debate over reproductive rights, both may be shifting in Joe Biden’s direction.
Dan SchnurApr 23 2024
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Arizona Democrats poised to continue effort to repeal 1864 abortion ban
When asked Tuesday how she feels about the Democratic effort in the Arizona State Legislature to repeal an 1864 abortion ban before it goes into effect, Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton laughed. "I was told that we could get a clean repeal tomorrow, but you know, who knows, right?" Stahl Hamilton said. "Who knows who loses their nerve, you know, the night before the day? Or
CBS News (Online)Apr 19 2024
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Correction: Voting Rights-Mississippi story
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In a story published April 17, 2024, about people losing their voting rights after some felony convictions in Mississippi, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Kenneth Almons began a 23-year prison sentence soon after graduating from high school. He was released from prison at age 23 after serving about six years.
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