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Residents in one of Texas’ most populous cities are working to decriminalize marijuana

Home to more than 260,000 people, the West Texas town of Lubbock is no stranger to passing local laws by petition. In 2021, residents overwhelmingly approved a local ban on abortion.

The Texas Tribune

DeSantis said he would support a 15-week abortion ban, after avoiding a direct answer for months

When Ron DeSantis said during last week’s Republican presidential debate that he would support a federal ban on abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy, some anti-abortion activists called it the news they had been waiting months to hear

The Independent UK

New York City public hospitals to offer abortion care via telehealth

Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday that abortion pill prescriptions would now be available by telephone or online

The Guardian - US

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Abortion, guns, democracy: US rights at stake as supreme court term begins

As rightwing supermajority starts third term, legal experts ask how far it will go in reconfiguring the legal landscape of US

The Guardian - US

Drop in teen births is slowing

The war against abortion rights, sex ed and more may unravel decades of progress

Salon

Supreme Court to consider abortion pills, guns, social media in its new term

In one form or another, all those questions are back on the table this term — mainly to take a second look at appeals from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Texas and parts the South.

WEKU

‘They just tried to scare us’: Anti-abortion centers teach sex ed inside some Texas public schools

The groups work in dozens of school districts across the state, but some public health experts say their curricula can be misleading and biased.

The Texas Tribune

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Judge blocks 2 provisions in North Carolina's new abortion law; 12-week near-ban remains in place

A federal judge blocked two portions of North Carolina’s new abortion law from taking effect while a lawsuit continues

The Independent UK

Anti-abortion groups are at odds on strategies ahead of Ohio vote. It could be a preview for 2024

Abortion opponents in Ohio are at odds over how to frame their opposition to a reproductive rights amendment on the state’s November ballot and over longer-term goals on how severely they would restrict the procedure

The Independent UK

Hundreds of women travelling from Scotland to England for abortion care

HUNDREDS of women have been forced to travel from Scotland to England to access abortion care in just over four years, according to official data,…

The National (Scotland)

The Supreme Court will take up abortion and gun cases in its new term while ethics concerns swirl

The Supreme Court is returning to a new term with familiar topics such as guns and abortion, as well as concerns about ethics swirling around the justices

The Independent UK

There are more of us than them

The people dying from COVID were voters

Salon

Feminism in the Arab world: The new wave of activists

A new wave of feminism is beginning to emerge in the Arab world but how successful will it be? Annette Young talks to Lina Abirafeh, a specialist on women's rights in the region. Also Tunisia marks 50 years since it became the only Arab country to legalise abortion. Yet it…

France 24

‘Motherhood is a cult, to a degree’: Anne Heltzel on her horror novel about parenthood

The author explains how Just Like Mother, her gothic horror tale of a cult fixated on childbearing, is uncomfortably close to reality

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Thousands of women march in Latin American cities calling for abortion rights

The streets of cities across Latin American were bathed in green as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day

The Independent UK

Judge sentences a woman who investigators say burned a Wyoming abortion clinic to 5 years in prison

A judge has sentenced an abortion opponent to five years in prison for burning a Wyoming abortion clinic

The Texas Tribune

With no opposition in the room, a rural Texas county makes traveling for an abortion on its roads illegal

Cochran County, which borders New Mexico, joins a small group of other rural Texas counties that have passed these ordinances. Abortion-rights supporters say the new policies are not legal.

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Number of abortions in France reaches highest level in 30 years

In 2022 the number of medical abortions in France reached its highest level since 1990, thanks to a simplified process for women wishing to terminate unwanted pregnancies.

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Meet the women finding ways to resist US abortion bans

To mark International Safe Abortion Day, we're taking stock of women's abortion rights in the United States. Terminations are now illegal in 14 states following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year. Some women in those states are now forced to travel elsewhere in the US…

Roll Call

Lawmakers look at data privacy in post-Dobbs world - Roll Call

Advocates worry there are limited guardrails protecting data from law enforcement during abortion investigations.

The Independent UK

The woman who torched Wyoming's lone, full-service abortion clinic is about to be sentenced

A woman who says anxiety and nightmares led her to set fire to Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday

The Independent UK

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law to protect doctors who mail abortion pills to other states

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law protecting doctors and pharmacists who mail abortion pills to patients in other states

The Independent UK

Ohio intends to keep enforcing its strict abortion law

Ohio Supreme Court justices have questioned the state’s lawyer about a legal strategy that Ohio is attempting in hopes of resuming enforcement of a ban on abortion except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy

The Texas Tribune

A Texas county that borders New Mexico is the latest to consider an abortion travel ban

Cochran County commissioners meet Thursday to discuss the ban. Abortion-rights supporters say the bans are unenforceable and meant to stoke fear.

The Independent UK

Ohio wants to resume enforcing its abortion law. Justices are weighing the legal arguments

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