AllSides Balanced Search reveals information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so you can get the full picture.
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 RubinMay 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 MonitorApr 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 DigitalDec 16 2020
News
As more women fill America’s jails, medical tragedies mount
By the time anyone at the Milwaukee County Jail noticed Shade Swayzer had given birth alone in a filthy cell, her baby was dead.
Swayzer had arrived a week earlier, on July 6, 2016, picked up after a dispute with a hotel clerk and charged with disorderly conduct and a parole violation from an old burglary conviction. She was clearly pregnant, just a few weeks from her due date, and
ReutersOct 11 2021
News
Texas’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Back On After An Appeals Court Paused A Judge’s Injunction
Texas's six-week abortion ban is at least temporarily back in effect as of Friday night after a federal appeals court paused a lower court order from earlier this week that had halted enforcement of the law.
The order from a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, granting what’s known as an “administrative stay,” isn’t permanent — the court will now decide
BuzzFeed NewsNov 07 2017
News
Air Force Failed to Report TX Gunman’s Domestic Violence Court-Martial, Allowing Him to Buy Gun
New details have emerged about Sunday’s mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, which killed 26 people, including children, elderly people and a pregnant woman.
Democracy Now!Feb 12 2022
News
Texas law causes abortions to drop by 60% as people seek care in other states
Abortions performed by registered providers in Texas fell by 60% in the first month after the state passed the most restrictive abortion law in the US in decades, according to new figures.
Nearly 2,200 abortions were reported by Texas providers in September after a new law took effect that bans the procedure once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy and
The GuardianSep 23 2021
News
Texas troopers create “steel wall” of patrol vehicles in Del Rio as feds continue to repatriate Haitians
DEL RIO — As immigration agents continue to fly more of the thousands of migrants camped in this border city to other processing centers or back to their home countries, state troopers have created a miles-long “steel wall” of patrol vehicles to discourage more people from crossing the Rio Grande into an encampment under the Del Rio international bridge.
As many as 15,000 migrants, many
The Texas TribuneApr 13 2020
News
Coronavirus Is Making More People Want to Give Birth at Home
Kara is 39 and a half weeks pregnant—and suddenly she’s rethinking her entire birth plan.
She always planned on delivering her baby at the hospital, as she’d done with her previous two children. She loves her midwife, who collaborates with obstetricians at the hospital near her house in Montgomery County, Maryland. (Kara didn't want to use her last name because she discusses her health
ViceApr 14 2018
News
R.N.C. Official Who Agreed to Pay Playboy Model $1.6 Million Resigns
A major donor with close ties to the White House resigned on Friday as deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee after the revelation that he had agreed to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who became pregnant during an affair.
New York Times (News)