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When abortion swayed elections

Felicity Goodyear-Smith looks back at just how political the issue of abortion was in New Zealand.

Newsroom.co.nz

Texas Republicans heckle Biden over border remarks during State of the Union

Texas Republicans have long pressed President Joe Biden to do more to address border security and jeered at his remarks during his annual speech to Congress.

The Texas Tribune

Nigeria panel conducting army probe says it will refer rights violators for prosecution

A special Nigerian human rights panel began investigating on Tuesday Reuters reports that the army massacred children and ran a secret abortion programme when fighting Islamist insurgents and said it would refer for prosecution those it considered guilty of rights violations.

Reuters

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Judge: Abortion may still be protected

District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton appointee, suggested the Dobbs ruling did not end abortion rights

Salon

First Thing: Turkey and Syria earthquake death toll ‘could pass 20,000’

World Health Organization official warns that number killed could quadruple. Plus, efforts to save the pink river dolphin

The Guardian - UK

Nigerian rights panel, underfunded and overmatched, begins probe of powerful military

A special panel named by Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission launched an investigation Tuesday into recent Reuters reports on rights abuses by the country’s army. Those familiar with the commission’s past work say it faces stiff challenges.

Reuters

Cynthia M. Allen: Yes, President Biden: The Catholic Church still opposes federal funding of abortion

It would be an understatement to say that President Joe Biden is prone to stating misleading things.

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Google targets low-income US women with ads for anti-abortion pregnancy centers, study shows

Exclusive: research finds ads directing women in two cities to crisis pregnancy centers when they search for abortion care

The Guardian - US

Abortion clinic buffer zones will be one of Scottish devolution's 'proudest legacies'

Gillian Mackay has brought forward the buffer zones bill in a bid to stop anti-abortion protesters from gathering outside clinics in Scotland.

The National (Scotland)

Abortion and the 13th Amendment

Judges cannot take the Supreme Court's silence as a ground to subvert Supreme Court precedent.

Reason

Tennessee Gov. Lee proposes $100M for anti-abortion centers

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has unveiled plans to funnel tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to anti-abortion centers as he declared that the state had a “moral obligation” to support families

The Independent UK

Up to 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage. Here’s why many American women can no longer receive the vital care that I needed after mine

Standard miscarriage treatments are now limited in many parts of the U.S. due to abortion bans following the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Fortune

Behold, the new Republican culture war

Republicans' only agenda is to make sure the rich get richer — and to distract us with manufactured moral outrage

Salon

Commentary: We can’t separate abortion rights from other health issues

I’m at the pharmacy to pick up methotrexate — the medicine for my newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) — and I’m told they never got the prescription. It’s strange: I’m picking up another medicine, too, and the prescriptions were sent at the same time. The next day, it’s sent again,…

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Anti-abortion group to pay Planned Parenthood nearly $1m over protest at clinic

Spokane county judge ordered Church at Planned Parenthood to pay $960,000 for interfering with patient care

The Texas Tribune

Texas lawsuit that seeks to ban abortion drug nationwide sparks fear among advocates

A decision on the lawsuit could come as early as this week.

The Independent UK

Anti-abortion church group to pay nearly $1m after protest outside of Planned Parenthood

The Church at Planned Parenthood had been previously banned in 2021 from protesting outside the Planned Parenthood location

The Independent UK

LOCALIZE IT: Abortion battles focus on city, state funding

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US states take control of abortion debate with funding focus

The U.S. abortion debate is shifting to funding as states take control of policymaking

The Denver Post

Bills to increase access to abortion, get consent for pelvic exams on the agenda for Colorado women’s caucus

DENVER — More than seven months have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, but this is the first chance Colorado lawmakers have had to work on legislation in its aftermath.

The Independent UK

New Mexico legislators may block local abortion ordinances

A standoff over abortion in politically conservative regions of New Mexico escalated as Democratic state legislators advanced a bill that would prohibit local governments from interfering with women’s access to reproductive health care

Chicago Sun-Times

Garcia, female supporters attack Vallas as a ‘fake Democrat’ who is an anti-abortion, pro-voucher threat to public school funding

As recent polls show mayoral challenger Paul Vallas surging and U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia fading, Garcia is pushing an attack against Vallas that Mayor Lori Lightfoot has used for weeks: that Vallas is a “fake Democrat” who is, in reality, an anti-choice Republican and a threat to women’s…

The Independent UK

Crowds decry gender-affirming treatment ban in West Virginia

Crowds pleaded with lawmakers at the West Virginia Capitol on Thursday to show as much compassion for saving the lives of transgender children as they showed for unborn fetuses when they voted to ban abortion

ABC News

Access to surgical abortion services delayed at Townsville Hospital

The promised return of full abortion services in Townsville has been delayed by staff shortages, more than a year after the closure of a major provider.

Salon

GOP AGs threaten CVS over abortion pills

More than a dozen attorneys general sent a threatening letter to the chains, citing a law from 1873

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