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Ahead of the 2023 session, Texas lawmakers previewed their objectives. Here are five things you need to know.

Texas lawmakers on both sides of the aisle talked schools, abortion and guns in advance of next year’s session in a range of panels at The Texas Tribune Festival.

The Texas Tribune

An Arizona judge rules that the state can enforce a near-total abortion ban

The judge lifted a decades-old injunction that has long blocked enforcement of the law on the books since before Arizona became a state that bans nearly all abortions.

WEKU

Most abortions now illegal in Arizona as pre-statehood law takes effect

All abortions except for those necessary to save the life of the mother are now illegal in the state.

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Biden pledges to sign abortion rights into law with two more Democratic senators: ‘I promise you’

‘If you give me two more senators in the United States Senate, I promise you, I promise you, we’re going to codify Roe and once again make Roe the law of the land’

The Independent UK

Arizona's 15-week abortion ban coming as other ban looms

A new Arizona law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy takes effect Saturday, even as a judge weighs whether a pre-statehood law that outlaws nearly all abortions will be enforced

The Independent UK

Republican Texas senator says he will support new rape exceptions for abortion

One of the longest-serving Republican state senators, Robert Nichols is among the first to say publicly he’d support revising the state’s abortion prohibition. He spoke Friday at The Texas Tribune Festival.

The Texas Tribune

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan rules out raising the minimum age to buy a firearm

At the 2022 Texas Tribune Festival, the Texas House speaker also signaled willingness to consider exceptions to the state’s abortion ban.

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Michels: Would sign abortion ban with rape/incest exceptions

Republican Tim Michels says he would sign an abortion ban with exceptions for rape and incest if it came to his desk as governor

The Independent UK

Breyer: Supreme Court leaker still appears to be a mystery

The Supreme Court doesn’t appear to have found the person who leaked a draft of the court’s major abortion decision last spring

The Independent UK

Biden says even Catholics don’t support Lindsay Graham’s proposed nationwide abortion ban

‘I happen to be a practising Roman Catholic. My church doesn’t even make that argument now,’ president says of abortion bans

The Independent UK

Republicans unveil 90s-throwback midterm election agenda

The House minority leader introduced the Republicans’ ‘Commitment to America’, focusing on Biden and not on Trump

The Guardian - US

Biden slams proposed Republican national abortion ban: ‘My church doesn’t even say that’

President Joe Biden is going all Catholic on the GOP.

Tribune News Service

Whoopi Goldberg apologies for joke about Lindsay Graham’s sexuality

Goldberg isn’t the first person to joke about the senator’s sexuality, but she’s likely the most famous

The Independent UK

DOJ's reproductive rights group is watching for state changes that violate federal law

The Justice Department is leading an effort to monitor changes in state law after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.

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129 statewide measures will be on Nov. 8 ballot

Voters in 36 states will decide on 129 ballot measures at the general election on November 8. As five ballot measures were decided at elections earlier this year, and three more will be decided in December, the annual total of statewide ballot measures for 2022 is 137.

Radio France Internationale

Who is Giorgia Meloni, the far-right contender set to be Italy's first female PM?

Giorgia Meloni, who has campaigned under the slogan of "God, country and family", is likely to lead Italy's most conservative government in years if her Brothers of Italy party and its allies win the general election on Sunday.

The Independent UK

Indiana appeals judge's order blocking state's abortion ban

The state of Indiana has appealed a judge’s order that blocked the state’s abortion ban from being enforced

The National (Scotland)

'We need our rights enshrined in law': Teacher seeks to decriminalise abortion

A TEACHER who has launched a petition to decriminalise abortion in Scotland said a “chilling” surge in harassment outside clinics made her…

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The Independent UK

John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are being ‘cautiously optimistic’ about new pregnancy

Couple had an abortion in 2020 due to pregnancy complications

The Guardian - US

DeSantis to face trial for suspension of prosecutor who defied abortion ban law

Andrew Warren, a Democrat, sued Florida governor for suspension after saying he would not enforce new 15-week abortion law

Tribune News Service

Commentary: NC doctor: Abortion saves lives. It saved my grandmother’s in the 1970s

Legislators, please listen to doctors!

Los Angeles Times

LZ Granderson: The fathers writing abortion laws are showing no mercy for daughters

I heard John Mayer's "Daughters" playing in the grocery store recently, and though it had been years since I listened to the 2003 classic, the chorus came rushing back to me:

The Independent UK

Jenny Mollen on receiving abortion care after miscarriages: ‘Abortion rights affect all of us’

Writer says she was inspired to share her experience after Chrissy Teigen came forward

France 24

Women’s rights denied: Abortion on the line as Italy’s far right eyes power

Italy’s surging far-right parties have been eroding abortion rights at the regional level, adding further hurdles to what was already an obstacle course for many women. With Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing coalition tipped to win the country’s general election on Sunday, there are fears the same policies could be replicated at…

The Independent UK

Budd embraces Trump, abortion opposition in NC Senate race

North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Ted Budd is leaning into his support for abortion restrictions and his allegiance to former President Donald Trump as Democrats fight for an elusive victory in the southern swing state

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