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Mar 14 2024
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Second 'Courageous Conversation' set for Tuesday, discussing eliminating South Dakota's food tax
Mar. 14—MITCHELL — Dakota Wesleyan University will offer the second of its three scheduled Courageous Conversations on upcoming South Dakota ballot initiatives on Tuesday, March 19, in the School of Business, Innovation and Leadership, Room 117, at 7 p.m. This conversation will encourage dialogue on the question, ""Should South Dakota eliminate the food tax?" Each Courageous Conversation will
Yahoo NewsAug 14 2023
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RFK Jr. backtracks on abortion comments: 'Always the woman’s right to choose'
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign quickly went into cleanup mode Sunday night, walking back comments he had made earlier in the day suggesting he would support a federal abortion ban after three months of pregnancy. “Mr. Kennedy misunderstood a question posed to him by a NBC reporter in a crowded, noisy exhibit hall at the Iowa State Fair,” his campaign said in
Washington ExaminerMar 16 2024
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Slate of GOP extremists has Democrats excited for North Carolina fight
In 2020, Joe Biden narrowly missed capturing North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes, losing the state by a slim 1.4-percentage-point margin. But that was nearly four years ago. Before the Dobbs decision. Before Donald Trump’s 91 felony indictments. And before last week, when the state’s GOP voters nominated a guy—who favorably quotes Hitler, has compared LGBTQ+ people to insects and larvae, and
Daily KosAug 14 2023
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RFK Jr. Endorses Federal Abortion Ban Then Quickly Reverses Himself
In an interview with NBC News at the Iowa State Fair over the weekend, Kennedy repeatedly said “yes” when asked if he would sign a federal ban on abortion after 15 weeks or 21 weeks of pregnancy if he were elected president. “I believe a decision to abort a child should be up to the women during the first three months of life,” Kennedy said. “Once a child is viable, outside the womb, I think
HuffPostOct 11 2023
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Idaho Abortion Ban Partly On Hold Again As Full Appeals Court Weighs In On Biden’s Challenge
Idaho's near-total abortion ban is on hold after a federal appeals court blocked it Tuesday, reversing a decision by three judges on the same court weeks ago amid ongoing legal fallout from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said it would reconsider the Biden Administration’s legal challenge against the state’s near-total
ForbesSep 25 2023
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Mother who helped teen daughter abort fetus is sentenced to two years in prison
LINCOLN — A Norfolk, Nebraska, mother was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for helping her teenage daughter abort a fetus last year that was beyond 20 weeks of gestation, a violation of the state law in effect at the time. Jessica Burgess, 42, had pleaded guilty in a plea deal to a felony charge of aiding an abortion past 20 weeks of gestation and misdemeanor charges of false reporting
Louisiana IlluminatorSep 25 2023
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Missouri judge strikes biased language from abortion ballot summaries drafted by Ashcroft
A Cole County Circuit Court judge ruled that Missouri's Secretary of State failed to craft fair and impartial ballot statements for petitions aiming to restore reproductive freedoms. Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft's summary language described several proposed constitutional amendments as allowing “dangerous and unregulated abortions until live birth.” The petitions were filed in March by a
Springfield News-LeaderOct 24 2023
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Georgia Supreme Court sends abortion law challenge back to lower court, leaving access unchanged
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a lower court ruling that the state's restrictive abortion law was invalid, leaving limited access to abortions unchanged for now. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said last November that the ban was “unequivocally unconstitutional” because it was enacted in 2019, when Roe v. Wade allowed abortions well past six
San Francisco ChronicleSep 05 2023
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Ohio votes on abortion rights this fall. Misinformation about the proposal is already spreading
An effort to guarantee access to abortion rights in Ohio, a November ballot measure, is already fueling misleading claims about how it could influence abortion care, gender-related health care and parental consent in the state.
The proposed constitutional amendment would give Ohioans the right to make their own reproductive decisions. Backers say that since Roe v. Wade was overturned
Associated Press