When a young woman came to the Family Services of North Alabama office last year for help with trauma, saying she had been raped by her step-uncle when she was 15, rape crisis advocate Portia Shepherd heard something that “killed ...
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Justice Clarence Thomas opened a 20-page concurring opinion, in which he likened not just abortion but also birth control to eugenics, by taking shots at his Supreme Court colleague, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “Justice Ginsburg’s dissent from this holding makes little ...
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RICHMOND, Va. – A federal judge on Tuesday vacated his own order to allow non-doctors to perform most abortions in Virginia, saying the issue should be decided in an upcoming trial. A week ago, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson agreed ...
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A decades-old North Carolina law that banned women from having abortions after their 20th week of pregnancy is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday. The 1973 law made some allowances for medical concerns, but a 2015 amendment that narrowed those ...
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Mississippi’s governor has signed into law one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, making it even more difficult for women to get abortions in a state where only one clinic still operates. The bill, set to take effect ...
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An Alabama judge has recognized the legal rights of an aborted fetus, allowing a man whose girlfriend ended her pregnancy at six weeks to sue the manufacturer of the pill she used and the clinic that gave it to her. ...
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court Friday night put off a decision about whether a restrictive Louisiana law that could close some of the state’s abortion clinics can go into effect on Monday. The court said the law, which challengers said ...
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WASHINGTON – Abortion providers in Louisiana have asked the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of a state law they say would leave only one doctor eligible to perform the procedure, an unexpectedly quick test on the issue for the ...
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state enacted one of the nation’s strongest protections for abortion rights Tuesday, a move that state leaders say was needed to safeguard those rights should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. The ...
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Read More »ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has urged Republican state lawmakers to reconsider their opposition to legislation codifying abortion rights in New York state law. Cuomo says Monday that the GOP-led Senate should immediately reconvene to pass the ...
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Read More »WASHINGTON – A federal judge issued a nationwide order temporarily preventing the government from blocking access to abortion services and counseling for teens detained in immigration custody, saying current administration policy and practices likely are unconstitutional. The order came in ...
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Read More »WASHINGTON – The Justice Department has formally withdrawn its appeals in a fast-moving case this week involving two undocumented teenagers seeking abortions, clearing the way for the teens to end their pregnancies. Until Tuesday, the case challenging the Trump administration’s ...
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