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One-third of workers want to quit over how their company handled the abortion ruling

The great resignation may see another, more conscience-driven wave as US workers debate exiting companies whose responses to the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade left something to be desired.

Tribune News Service · Oct 25, 2022

Movie review: Timely but opaque, 'Call Jane' doesn't resonate as it should

“Are you Jane?” It’s a question that Chicago housewife Joy (Elizabeth Banks) repeatedly asks, as she calls a number from a flyer, is picked up, blindfolded, driven to a nondescript office where she receives an illegal, but safe, abortion from an unfeeling doctor (Cory Michael Smith), and is then cared…

Tribune News Service · Oct 25, 2022

Kanye West assails Jews, abortion in new interview with Lex Fridman

In a sprawling new podcast interview with MIT research scientist Lex Fridman, Kanye West made yet another series of incendiary and false statements about the Holocaust, abortion and the Jewish people.

Los Angeles Times · Oct 25, 2022

Call Jane director Phyllis Nagy on the pre-Roe v Wade activists who inspired her movie with Elizabeth Banks

The filmmaker had no idea just how relevant her movie, about a woman seeking an abortion in the 1960s, would become

Evening Standard · Oct 25, 2022

Michigan governor candidates to debate for final time

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Republican challenger Tudor Dixon are debating for the final time before the November election for control of the battleground state

The Independent UK · Oct 25, 2022

Editorial: Biden's abortion rights announcement was ill-timed, ham-handed — and necessary

President Joe Biden’s recent pledge to pass and sign a national abortion rights law next year if Democrats hold Congress may look like (and to some extent undoubtedly is) a desperate attempt to turn the tide before the Nov. 8 midterms. Still, for all its lousy timing and ham-handed presentation,…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 25, 2022

Young women turned out for abortion rights in Kansas. Will they be a force in November?

The weekend after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids spoke to a gathering of volunteers prepared to knock on doors ahead of Kansas’ August vote on abortion rights.

Tribune News Service · Oct 25, 2022

Where does Rishi Sunak stand on women’s issues?

A look at the new prime minister’s stance on abortion rights and tackling violence against women

The Independent UK · Oct 25, 2022

Editorial: Michigan voters can show the country how to protect abortion rights

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in late June and took away a constitutional right to an abortion that had been in place for nearly half a century, the justices in the majority said abortion laws should be left up to the states.

Los Angeles Times · Oct 25, 2022

Samuel Alito assured Ted Kennedy in 2005 of respect for Roe, diary reveals

Excerpts reported by late senator’s biographer show Alito, who wrote June ruling that outlawed abortion, said he was ‘big believer in precedents’

The Guardian - US · Oct 25, 2022