‘I’m not a radical’: Kansas split ahead of critical post-Roe abortion vote Tuesday’s vote seeks to overturn state constitutional rights in a midwest abortion haven – which way will it go? The Guardian - US · Aug 1, 2022
Confidence in the Supreme Court is declining – but there is no easy way to oversee justices and their politics Recent evidence showing that Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent at least 29 text messages to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to help overturn the 2020 election has reignited a long-simmering debate about judicial ethics and the nation’s highest court. The Conversation · Aug 1, 2022
Editorial: Attacking corporations for responsible policies betrays Republican principles The party that once coddled corporations is now punishing them for supporting climate-change mitigation, LGBTQ rights, gun reform, abortion rights and more. Much as they like to pander to the anti-“woke” extremists in their base, Republican officeholders should consider that corporations today, just like those in the heyday of country… St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Aug 1, 2022
Post-Roe: People seeking permanent sterilizations are being turned away Some patients who don’t have children and are in their childbearing years are reporting difficulties finding providers willing to sterilize them Inverse · Aug 1, 2022
Editorial: Lawmakers inflict heartbreak and harm with lax understanding of pregnancy The nightmarish experience of an expectant mother in Texas underscores why lawmakers, in their zeal to protect the unborn at all costs, should have no business telling doctors how to do their jobs. The Houston woman, Elizabeth Weller, badly wanted a child and was heartbroken when her water broke at… St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Aug 1, 2022
Feminism, abortion and "white innocence" Bestselling author on the history lesson post-Roe feminism is about to learn: "White women are going to die" Salon · Aug 1, 2022
This summer may be one of the most consequential in US democracy The Long Summer of 2022 began in May, when the abortion opinion draft leaked, and continued through a series of brutal rulings and congressional hearings The Guardian - US · Aug 1, 2022
Commentary: The Supreme Court is unscientific and medically negligent A pair of Supreme Court rulings in June — one on gun rights, the other on abortion — have elicited strong, partisan reactions. Tribune News Service · Aug 1, 2022
Students demand ‘last resort’ emergency contraceptive vending machines on campuses after Roe ruling ‘Emergency contraception is a last resort.. because it’s the most prominent time of need’ The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2022
Pregnant women are having abortions because they fear they can't afford children The rising cost of living is having a tragic consequence Wales Online · Aug 1, 2022
'We are drowning in debt': Pregnant women forced to consider abortion because of soaring childcare costs Six in ten women who have had an abortion claim childcare costs influenced their decision Manchester Evening News · Aug 1, 2022
What to watch in primaries in Arizona, Michigan, elsewhere Primary elections are behind held in six states on Tuesday The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2022
Victorian crossbench MP launches bid to compel religious hospitals to provide abortions Reason Party leader Fiona Patten will introduce a bill into state parliament this week that would remove the right of hospitals that receive any taxpayer funding to refuse to offer reproductive health services and voluntary assisted dying due to "corporate conscientious objection". ABC News · Aug 1, 2022
Vic push to curb hospital abortion refusal Victorian crossbench MP Fiona Patten has unveiled a bill to remove public denominational hospitals' right to refuse abortion and assisted-dying services. AAP · Jul 31, 2022
The Guardian - AU · Jul 31, 2022 Victorian public hospitals could not prevent doctors from providing abortions under new bill Reason party leader Fiona Patten, who is introducing the bill, says ‘imposed religious faith has no place in the public health system’
The Independent UK · Jul 31, 2022 Vulnerable House Dems see abortion as winning campaign theme The Supreme Court’s decision to repeal a woman’s federal constitutional right to abortion has scrambled the political dynamics heading into the November elections, when control of Congress is at stake
Tribune News Service · Jul 31, 2022 ‘Summer of Mercy’: How protests changed abortion rights and politics in Kansas forever They called it the “Summer of Mercy.”
The Guardian - US · Jul 31, 2022 Kansas referendum will test change in abortion landscape since Roe fell The ballot measure is the first of many across the country that will decide where and how women can preserve reproductive rights
Tribune News Service · Jul 30, 2022 Rinke downplays Trump's endorsement of Dixon in Michigan governor's race: 'He is batting 50%' TROY, Mich. — Hours after his biggest opponent won Donald Trump’s endorsement, Republican gubernatorial candidate Kevin Rinke emerged Saturday morning at his campaign event undeterred, saying the former president's support doesn’t guarantee a win.
The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2022 Pregnant woman shocked after GP ‘gave her anti-abortion leaflet’ Woman was reportedly handed information from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children at London clinic
The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2022 EXPLAINER: What's the role of personhood in abortion debate? The concept of personhood that underlies anti-abortion laws in some states considers fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses as people with the same rights as those already born
Salon · Jul 30, 2022 What the Bible truly says about abortion Here’s the problem: This 2,000-year-old text clarifies nothing about abortion
The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2022 Overturning Roe v. Wade isn't the end for abortion opponents Anti-abortion groups are looking to the courts, lawmakers and elections to facilitate more abortion restrictions and bans after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June left the issue up to states
The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2022 Indiana Senate to vote on near-total abortion ban Indiana state senators are set to meet in a rare weekend session to vote on a near-total abortion ban
The Guardian - US · Jul 30, 2022 Yes, Republicans really did try to make abortion punishable by death A bill introduced in the North Carolina legislature last year was largely performative but was part of the right’s strategy to make the unthinkable mainstream