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Roe v Wade to be overturned? What this would mean for reproductive rights around the world

Reproductive rights have been an urgent topic of discussion around the world in recent days, following the leak of a draft opinion of the US supreme court, written by Justice Samuel Alito, in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. If enacted by the court, this opinion would…

The Conversation

What is Roe v Wade and did it get overturned?

Ruling enshrined women’s right to terminate a pregnancy

The Independent UK

Ending Roe Threatens More Than Abortion Rights

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US abortion law decision brings attention to rights of women in Africa

A leaked draft of a majority opinion of the US Supreme Court has revealed the court’s leaning towards undoing its 1973 landmark ruling (Roe v Wade) which gave women in the US a constitutional right to abortion. The leaked document is not the court’s final decision – this is expected…

The Conversation

Abortion pill startup to seek new VC funds

Over half of U.S. abortions are now done via medication.

Axios

Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate

A 23-year-old literature student discovers she's pregnant after a fling. This movie, based on Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, traces her desperate attempt to get an abortion in 1963 France.

WEKU

Survey: Over 60% of adults say most abortions should be legal in U.S.

The poll was conducted before the leak of the draft opinion showing the Supreme Court might overturn Roe v. Wade.

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Will Democrats waste this moment?

The GOP is so outside of the mainstream that Democrats have an opportunity to save themselves before the midterms

Salon

'Making abortion illegal poses a danger to women as they will turn to unsafe solutions'

Tanya Gold says that where abortion is forbidden, terrible things happen. In south America, raped pubescent girls die in childbirth. Abortion could become illegal in more than 20 US states

Daily Mirror

Texas attorney general says state bar suing him over bid to overturn 2020 election – as it happened

State bar of Texas has been investigating complaints over Ken Paxton’s petitioning of the US supreme court to block Joe Biden’s victory

The Guardian - US

Minnesota’s abortion clinics brace for influx in wake of Roe leak

If Roe v Wade falls, Minnesota will be surrounded by states where abortion will likely become illegal.

Al Jazeera

Life after Roe v. Wade, what impact will it have on American society?

In this edition, uproar in the United States after a leaked Supreme Court draft ruling shows the country is set to end 50 years of a woman's right to have an abortion. Annette Young also talks to writer Molly Jong-Fast about what life in America would look like without Roe…

France 24

Pro-Life Libertarians Can Cautiously Cheer the End of Roe

For libertarians who see unborn babies as innocent rights-bearing individuals, reducing the number of lives ended by abortion brings us closer to our credo.

Reason

Emily Sheffield: Dark days ahead for American women if Joe Biden doesn’t step up on abortion

How many of you remember the explosive sexual assault allegations levelled against Justice Brett Kavanaugh by psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford, allegations he in turn vehemently denied? At the time America was gripped — as were we. It was 2018, MeToo was raging and Kavanaugh was Donald Trump’s ultra-conservative choice…

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The Conversation

How US policy on abortion affects women in Africa

Policies and decisions made in the United States echo around the world and often have widespread implications. Take sexual and reproductive health, for example. Decisions made in the US have caused, and could cause, severe damage to progress in access to these services in developing countries.

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: bank holidays exist to remind me why schools exist

Arguments with my 14-year-old, bad dogs at polling stations, and Piers Morgan’s silent majority goes missing

WEKU

7 persistent claims about abortion, fact-checked

Several not-quite-right claims have continued to linger about abortion since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The Guardian - US

Ending Roe v Wade could badly backfire on Republicans during elections this year

The Democrats now have a fighting chance to maintain control of the Senate. Their odds of retaining and flipping seats have improved overnight

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First Thing: UN plans third evacuation from Azovstal steelworks in Ukraine

As a large-scale Russian propaganda campaign gets under way, fighting continues in the steel plant in Mariupol. Plus, Karine Jean-Pierre named new US press secretary

Salon

RBG saw this coming: Roe's fatal flaw

The original Roe decision never even mentions women's equality. As Ginsburg saw, that was a critical mistake

Axios

Without Roe, data will become a company headache and a user nightmare

Personal information in the hands of tech companies is likely to become a legal target in a post-Roe world.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Solomon Jones: The Supreme Court’s draft ruling on abortion invoked ‘state’s rights.’ Here’s why that’s troubling

The U.S. Supreme Court is on the cusp of striking down Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that guaranteed federal protections of abortion rights, and my mind is flooded with thoughts of how this happened and what it means.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Alito's draft ruling is so self-contradictory that it calls court's judgment into question

The Supreme Court draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade raises just as many arguments and counterarguments as the original ruling that Justice Samuel Alito excoriated in his opinion, leaked this week to Politico. Alito’s assertion that abortion rights don’t fall under the 14th Amendment, and that the Constitution makes no…

Los Angeles Times

Anita Chabria: A Texas woman needed an abortion. Here's how far California went to help her

The first sign of Stephanie's pregnancy was nausea, as it so often is — that particular debilitating queasiness that knocked her off her feet, sometimes all day, days at a time.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: The Supreme Court leak confirmed that this is no longer the America we grew up in

When the news dropped around 9 p.m. on Monday, one woman said she’d stomped around her house, cussing. Another said she cried. Only 20 hours after the unprecedented leak of a looming Supreme Court decision to undo nearly a half-century of abortion rights, they and more than 100 other people,…

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