AllSides Balanced Search reveals information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so you can get the full picture.
Mar 30 2022
News
Planned Parenthood Sues To Block Idaho's Texas-Style Abortion Ban
Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Wednesday to block Idaho’s new abortion ban, which is modeled after a law in Texas that was designed to evade court challenges.
The health care provider’s petition asks the Idaho Supreme Court to block the state law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, which is before many people even know they’re pregnant, before it goes into effect on April
HuffPostMar 31 2018
News
Federal judge blocks Trump administration officials from stopping immigrant teens from getting abortions
A federal judge on Friday evening temporarily blocked Trump administration officials from stopping pregnant, unaccompanied immigrant teens who are or will be in federal custody from getting an abortion.
The HillJun 17 2018
News
A Dad, A Daughter, A Disappearing Act: Love And Mourning On Father's Day
My father has always been disappearing from my life. The first time he did so was right after my teenage mother told him she was pregnant with me.
NPR (Online News)Jul 18 2021
News
California Lawmakers Unanimously Approve the State's First Basic Income Program
The idea of attaching fewer strings to government assistance continues to gain currency. On Thursday, the California legislature unanimously passed a budget trailer bill that will create the state's first guaranteed income pilot program.
Under the lawmakers' plan, the state's Department of Social Services (DSS) will get $35 million to dole out in grants to cities and counties that will
ReasonFeb 19 2021
News
Tennessee Presents New Bill Allowing Fathers to Stop Abortions
Tennessee lawmakers proposed a bill that would allow biological fathers of an unborn child to prevent mothers from getting an abortion.
The bill was introduced on Feb. 10 by Sen. Mark Pody (R-Lebanon) and Rep. Jerry Sexton (R-Bean Station). It states a person can, “petition a court for an injunction to prohibit a woman who is pregnant with the person’s unborn child from obtaining an
Scriberr Media - NewsDec 02 2021
News
The Supreme Court appears inclined to roll back Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court seems poised to seriously curtail abortion rights nationwide after arguments Wednesday in a Mississippi case.
The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, tests whether laws that ban pre-viability abortions are constitutional.
All of the court's past abortion decisions have upheld Roe's central framework: That pregnant people have a constitutional
NPR (Online News)Nov 30 2021
Opinion
Overruling abortion rights could have much broader implications on Americans’ liberty
In anticipation of the Supreme Court’s hearing on Wednesday to consider Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks, there has been much conversation about what will happen if the court’s conservatives overrule abortion rights cemented in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In fact, the implications of such a ruling would go far beyond just abortion.
In Casey, the Supreme
Jennifer RubinApr 09 2022
News
Idaho Supreme Court temporarily blocks state’s new 6-week abortion ban
The Idaho Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked the state’s new six-week abortion ban, which mimics a controversial Texas law.
Abortion providers had said in a lawsuit filed last week that the Idaho law violates several provisions of the state constitution and asked the state Supreme Court to intervene before April 22, when the law had been set to take effect.
The court on
CNN DigitalMay 19 2021
Headline Roundup
Texas Governor Signs 'Heartbeat Bill' Banning Abortion
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill Wednesday banning abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat. The bill, passed by both chambers of the Republican-majority Texas legislature, prohibits abortion at six weeks of pregnancy without making an exception for rape or incest, though it does make an exception for medical emergencies. While approximately a dozen states have passed similar
The Guardian NPR (Online News) National Review (News)May 09 2019
News
When does birthright citizenship become citizenship for sale?
Kerry Starchuk’s activism begins with homemade granola cookies – specifically, when she took a plate to her new neighbors.
Except the man and a toddler boy who she heard bouncing a basketball outside, and the two pregnant women with them, hadn’t moved into the house next door to hers, where she has lived since 1988. Visitors from China, they were residing in her neighborhood only
Christian Science Monitor