'Power, Not Reason, Is The New Currency Of This Court's Decision Making': US Supreme Court's Liberal Wing Slams 'Draconian' Abortion Decision
2 years, 9 months ago

'Power, Not Reason, Is The New Currency Of This Court's Decision Making': US Supreme Court's Liberal Wing Slams 'Draconian' Abortion Decision

Live Law  

The Supreme Court of United States on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade wiping out the constitutional right to abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years. The Court in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative majority upheld a Republican-backed Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.The controversial ruling which had been expected since May after new portal Politico published. Close to 21 states either have pre-existing or pending state-level abortion bans that were slated to go into effect following the Supreme Court's Friday ruling to overturn Roe. Today's decision, the majority says, permits "each State" to address abortion as it pleases. In an unusually damning language, the dissenters also buried Constitutional originalism by opining, "Those responsible for the original Constitution, including the Fourteenth Amendment, did not perceive women as equals, and did not recognize women's rights,".

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US states move court to battle over abortion pills
2 weeks, 5 days ago

US states move court to battle over abortion pills

Firstpost  

Since the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the federal protection of the right to an abortion, states like Texas and Louisiana have adopted tough anti-abortion laws. “These are the first kind of cross-border fights that we’ve seen since Roe was overturned,” said California legal scholar Mary Ziegler, referring to the 2022 Supreme Court decision. In Louisiana, she faces criminal …

The Big New Hurdle Facing Abortion Rights in State Courts
55 years, 2 months ago

The Big New Hurdle Facing Abortion Rights in State Courts

Slate  

This piece was originally published on State Court Report, a hub for reporting, analysis, and commentary about state courts and constitutions. Last month, the Georgia Supreme Court remanded a challenge to Georgia’s six-week abortion ban to the trial court, instructing it to evaluate the case, Georgia v. SisterSong, in light of a January state high court decision that eliminated third-party …

Supreme Court turns back challenges to laws keeping abortion opponents away from clinics, patients
1 month ago

Supreme Court turns back challenges to laws keeping abortion opponents away from clinics, patients

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a pair of cases from abortion opponents who say laws limiting anti-abortion demonstrations near clinics violate their First Amendment rights. The city argued the appeal should be tossed because the ordinance was repealed shortly before abortion opponents went to the Supreme Court. Both challengers pointed out that the high court struck …

Supreme Court declines chance to overturn precedent limiting protests outside abortion clinics
1 month ago

Supreme Court declines chance to overturn precedent limiting protests outside abortion clinics

CNN  

CNN — The Supreme Court opted against hearing arguments in a pair of appeals Monday seeking to wipe out protest buffer zones around abortion clinics – a move that, for now, will leave those restrictions in place. In one case, a Missouri non-profit called Coalition Life challenged an ordinance in a Southern Illinois city, Carbondale, that bars people from coming …

Georgia justices order new look at whether lawsuit challenging near-ban on abortion can proceed
1 month ago

Georgia justices order new look at whether lawsuit challenging near-ban on abortion can proceed

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A lawsuit challenging Georgia’s near-ban on abortion is headed back to a trial court to decide if the people who want to overturn the law have legal standing to sue. Andrea Young, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, which represents the plaintiffs, said the ruling “has further delayed any possibility of justice for women …

"Complete chaos”: How Trump is already accelerating the reproductive rights crisis
1 month, 3 weeks ago

"Complete chaos”: How Trump is already accelerating the reproductive rights crisis

Salon  

On Friday, thousands of anti-abortion advocates gathered for the annual National March for Life event in Washington. “President Trump's Executive Order to enforce the Hyde Amendment creates yet another barrier to abortion access, specifically targeting low-income women and pregnant people who rely on Medicaid access and may otherwise be unable to afford abortion care.” Indeed, the previous consequences of the …

North Dakota’s overturned abortion ban won’t be in effect during appeal, court rules
2 months ago

North Dakota’s overturned abortion ban won’t be in effect during appeal, court rules

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota’s highest court ruled Friday to keep the state’s overturned abortion ban from being enforced during an appeal of a decision by a judge that struck down the law in September. Attorneys for the state had asked the North Dakota Supreme Court to grant a stay pending appeal. State District Judge Bruce Romanick had earlier denied …

New Mexico is a go-to state for women seeking abortions. A new court ruling helps it stay that way
2 months, 2 weeks ago

New Mexico is a go-to state for women seeking abortions. A new court ruling helps it stay that way

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday struck down abortion restrictions by conservative cities and counties at the request of the state attorney general. Attorneys representing New Mexico’s Lea and Roosevelt counties and the cities of Hobbs and Clovis had argued in court that local abortion ordinances can’t be struck down under provisions within the “anti-vice” …

Abortions are up in the US. The data paints a complicated picture
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Abortions are up in the US. The data paints a complicated picture

Associated Press  

Abortion has become slightly more common despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled states, and the legal and political fights over its future are not over yet. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Overturning Roe and enforcing abortion bans has changed how woman obtain abortions in the U.S. “Abortion bans don’t actually …

How the abortion rights landscape changed in 2024
3 months ago

How the abortion rights landscape changed in 2024

Salon  

In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision, ending the federal enshrinement of abortion rights in America. 01 More people stockpiled abortion pills 2024 began with the anticipation that the Supreme Court would invalidate the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions. “This increase is …

A Judge Says Missouri's Abortion Ban Isn’t Enforceable, But There's No Start Date For Abortions
3 months ago

A Judge Says Missouri's Abortion Ban Isn’t Enforceable, But There's No Start Date For Abortions

Huff Post  

FILE - Missouri residents and abortion-rights advocation react to a speaker during Missourians for Constitutionals Freedom kick-off petition drive, Feb. 6, 2024 in Kansas City, Mo. — A judge ruled Friday that Missouri’s near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment, though Planned Parenthood said the decision is still not sufficient for it to resume providing abortions in …

A judge says Missouri’s abortion ban isn’t enforceable, but there’s no start date for abortions
3 months ago

A judge says Missouri’s abortion ban isn’t enforceable, but there’s no start date for abortions

Associated Press  

— A judge ruled Friday that Missouri’s near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment, though Planned Parenthood said the decision is still not sufficient for it to resume providing abortions in the state. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang said the abortion ban “is directly at odds” with a constitutional amendment creating a right to abortion …

Supreme Court takes up South Carolina's effort to defund Planned Parenthood
3 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court takes up South Carolina's effort to defund Planned Parenthood

NPR  

Supreme Court takes up South Carolina's effort to defund Planned Parenthood toggle caption Kent Nishimura/Getty Images The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will review South Carolina's effort to disqualify Planned Parenthood from providing non-abortion services to Medicaid patients. The court will restrict itself to a single question in the case: The justices agreed to take up the question of …

Idaho’s strict abortion ban faces scrutiny in federal appeals court hearing
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Idaho’s strict abortion ban faces scrutiny in federal appeals court hearing

Associated Press  

PASADENA, Calif. — A federal appeals court scrutinized the impact of Idaho’s strict abortion ban on emergency medical care on Tuesday, weighing whether the ban criminalizing abortions should be enforceable in life- and health-threatening situations. Circuit Court of Appeals panel of 11 judges to urgently lift the injunction preventing the state from enforcing its abortion ban in emergency room settings, …

Takeaways from the Supreme Court arguments on transgender health care ban: Conservatives skeptical
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Takeaways from the Supreme Court arguments on transgender health care ban: Conservatives skeptical

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard the most high-profile case of its term on Wednesday, weighing Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors. In the arguments on Wednesday, five of the court’s six conservatives seemed skeptical of the argument that the ban on gender-affirming care for minors is discriminatory. Two key conservatives, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice …

Reproductive rights advocates sue Arizona to overturn 15-week abortion ban
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Reproductive rights advocates sue Arizona to overturn 15-week abortion ban

India Today  

Reproductive rights advocates sued Arizona on Tuesday to undo a 15-week abortion ban that conflicts with a constitutional amendment recently approved by voters to expand access to foetal viability. “And so that’s really what this 15-week ban challenge is.” Arizona was one of five states where voters approved ballot measures in the 2024 general election to add the right to …

Lawsuit seeks to undo 15-week abortion ban that conflicts with expanded access in Arizona
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Lawsuit seeks to undo 15-week abortion ban that conflicts with expanded access in Arizona

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Reproductive rights advocates sued Arizona …

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights
4 months ago

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights

CNN  

CNN — Conservative groups have for years sought to reduce the government’s sway over parents’ childrearing choices, particularly when it comes to decisions about school and health care. But the Supreme Court’s upcoming and potentially explosive transgender care case is dividing conservatives, with many of those same groups backing Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments, which critics say …

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights
4 months ago

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights

CNN  

CNN — Conservative groups have for years sought to reduce the government’s sway over parents’ childrearing choices, particularly when it comes to decisions about school and health care. But the Supreme Court’s upcoming and potentially explosive transgender care case is dividing conservatives, with many of those same groups backing Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments, which critics say …

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths
4 months ago

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths

Raw Story  

The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee revealed this week that it will not be reviewing any cases that occurred over the last two years — which just happen to be the years when Texas's strict anti-abortion law went into effect. The Washington Post reports that the move by the committee is "leaving any potential deaths related to abortion …

Wisconsin Supreme Court grapples with whether state’s 175-year-old abortion ban is valid
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Wisconsin Supreme Court grapples with whether state’s 175-year-old abortion ban is valid

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A conservative prosecutor’s attorney struggled Monday to persuade the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reactivate the state’s 175-year-old abortion ban, drawing a tongue-lashing from two of the court’s liberal justices during oral arguments. Sheboygan County’s Republican district attorney, Joel Urmanski, has asked the high court to overturn a Dane County judge’s ruling last year that invalidated the ban. …

Wisconsin high court to hear arguments on whether an 1849 abortion ban remains valid
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Wisconsin high court to hear arguments on whether an 1849 abortion ban remains valid

NPR  

Wisconsin high court to hear arguments on whether an 1849 abortion ban remains valid toggle caption Harm Venhuizen/AP MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced. Sponsor Message The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1973 …

Editorial: Abortion was on ballots across the country in this election. The results are encouraging
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: Abortion was on ballots across the country in this election. The results are encouraging

LA Times  

Ever since the Supreme Court took away the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, the people have been taking it back state by state. Before last week’s election, voters in six states had either enshrined abortion rights in their state constitutions or defeated ballot measures that would have restricted them. Ballot measures in New York, Maryland, Colorado and Montana enshrined …

U.S. Election Results 2024: Determining constitutional right to abortion with ballots
Trending News
4 months, 3 weeks ago

U.S. Election Results 2024: Determining constitutional right to abortion with ballots

The Hindu  

Since the U.S. overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling securing the right to abortion, several States of the North American country became the groundswell of public opposition. Not-for-profit public law observer Brennan Centre for Justice observed in a blogpost, “In most of these eight States, abortion opponents in official positions have used their power to try to block or …

Abortion rights advocates win in 4 states and clear way to overturn Missouri ban but lose in Florida
Top News
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Abortion rights advocates win in 4 states and clear way to overturn Missouri ban but lose in Florida

The Independent  

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Florida Voters Reject Abortion Rights Initiative
Top News
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Florida Voters Reject Abortion Rights Initiative

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. ― Florida voters on Tuesday are projected to reject a pro-choice constitutional amendment that would have repealed the state’s six-week abortion ban and restored access to the procedure until about 24 weeks into a pregnancy. Amendment 4, or the Right to Abortion Initiative, sought to add language to the Florida Constitution stating that “no …

Anti-abortion forces broke the left’s post-Roe winning streak, but seven more states enacted protections
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Anti-abortion forces broke the left’s post-Roe winning streak, but seven more states enacted protections

Politico  

Many of the measures won — and in Florida, came close to winning — despite widespread efforts by GOP state officials, Republican-appointed judges and anti-abortion advocacy groups to prevent them from passing or from reaching the ballot, using legislation, lawsuits and public pressure campaigns. “This won’t be the last time Missourians vote on so-called ‘reproductive rights,’” said GOP state Sen. …

Abortion rights advocates win in 6 states but lose in 3
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Abortion rights advocates win in 6 states but lose in 3

LA Times  

Voters in Missouri cleared the way to undo one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans in one of six victories for abortion rights advocates, while Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota defeated similar constitutional amendments, leaving bans in place. A measure that allows more abortion restrictions and enshrines the state’s current 12-week ban was adopted in Nebraska and a competing …

Abortion amendments pass in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri and more while Florida measure fails
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Abortion amendments pass in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri and more while Florida measure fails

Salon  

Results from the first presidential election since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision are already pouring in. Missouri: Amendment 3 Results: PASS 53.5% YES / 46.8% NO In Missouri, Amendment 3 would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution, overturning the state’s current abortion ban. “It's a health care issue, it …

Missouri Voters Decide on Abortion Ban Override
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Missouri Voters Decide on Abortion Ban Override

CNN  

Missouri voters will decide whether to overturn their state's near-total abortion ban in a ballot measure this election. The measure would establish the right to make reproductive care decisions, including about abortion, without interference up to fetal viability, around 22 to 24 weeks into pregnancy.

Commentary: A second Trump administration could make abortion restrictions even worse
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Commentary: A second Trump administration could make abortion restrictions even worse

LA Times  

Mitzi Rivas, left, hugs her daughter Maya Iribarren during an abortion-rights protest at City Hall in San Francisco following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade in June 2022. Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling returning the decision on abortion to the states, nearly half enacted abortion bans, some of which have prevented women from getting emergency abortions …

Column: A reminder that the GOP used to be the pro-abortion party, and Democrats the anti party
5 months ago

Column: A reminder that the GOP used to be the pro-abortion party, and Democrats the anti party

LA Times  

Vice President Kamala Harris speaking to promote women’s reproductive rights in San Jose in January, before she became the Democratic nominee for president and made those rights a centerpiece of her campaign. Here are the landmarks: In the decades prior to Roe vs. Wade, abortion was broadly illegal in the U.S. Women seeking abortions for their physical and psychological health …

Conservative states kick off new fight to limit access to abortion pill mifepristone despite Supreme Court decision
5 months, 1 week ago

Conservative states kick off new fight to limit access to abortion pill mifepristone despite Supreme Court decision

CNN  

CNN — Four months after the Supreme Court tossed out a high-profile challenge to the abortion drug mifepristone, and as abortion access is a major flashpoint in the presidential election, three conservative states are following through on a promise to bring the issue back to the forefront with a new lawsuit. The suit may thrust the issue of mifepristone access …

More abortion ballot measures are set to pass. Then state courts will have their say.
5 months, 2 weeks ago

More abortion ballot measures are set to pass. Then state courts will have their say.

Politico  

In Arizona, progressive groups are holding events and knocking on doors to make GOP-appointed state Supreme Court Justices Clint Bolick and Kathryn King the first in state history to lose a retention vote by reminding voters the pair ruled this year to uphold an 1864 law criminalizing nearly all abortions. But they can interpret what it means, and what the …

Supreme Court declines Biden administration appeal in Texas emergency abortion case
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court declines Biden administration appeal in Texas emergency abortion case

LA Times  

The Supreme Court let stand a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations if they would break Texas law. The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans. The justices did not detail their reasoning for …

Your guide to the presidential candidates’ views on abortion
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Your guide to the presidential candidates’ views on abortion

LA Times  

Abortion rights, always a polarizing issue in American politics, became an electoral tinderbox in 2022 after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, the landmark decision to create a federal right to abortion access. The prospect of women not having access to abortion was theoretical in many voters’ minds until the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health …

Opposing sides of GA's anti-abortion law speak out after judge rules ban unconstitutional
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Opposing sides of GA's anti-abortion law speak out after judge rules ban unconstitutional

Raw Story  

Abortion rights advocates are cheering Monday’s court ruling that brought back expanded services in Georgia, even as they brace for the likelihood that further judicial action could make it short-lived. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C. I. McBurney’s ruling that the law is unconstitutional comes just weeks before early voting starts in Georgia, including for state legislative races and …

‘Massive win': Advocates cheer overturning of ‘extreme’ abortion law blamed for 2 deaths
5 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Massive win': Advocates cheer overturning of ‘extreme’ abortion law blamed for 2 deaths

Raw Story  

Abortion rights advocates nationwide hailed a state judge’s decision Monday to overturn Georgia’s strict six-week abortion ban that they say “caused suffering in the state for the last two years” as a “massive win." “Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller should still be alive — and they would be if it weren’t for Donald Trump and Brian Kemp’s abortion ban,” …

The GOP’s New Tactic to Block Abortion Votes Is Startlingly Successful
6 months, 2 weeks ago

The GOP’s New Tactic to Block Abortion Votes Is Startlingly Successful

Slate  

Conservatives have once again turned to the courts to keep people from voting on reproductive rights. The anti-abortion plaintiffs argued that Missouri’s Amendment 3, which protects the right to make decisions about reproductive health care, covers more than one subject. The anti-abortion plaintiffs contend that the abortion-rights ballot measure covers more than one subject because it addresses a right to …

North Dakota judge strikes down the state’s abortion ban
6 months, 2 weeks ago

North Dakota judge strikes down the state’s abortion ban

LA Times  

A state judge struck down North Dakota’s ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable. The judge acknowledged in his ruling that in the past, the North Dakota courts had relied on federal court precedents on abortion, but said those state precedents had been “upended” by the …

Nebraska Supreme Court will hear lawsuit challenging measure to expand abortion rights
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Nebraska Supreme Court will hear lawsuit challenging measure to expand abortion rights

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Nebraska Supreme Court has …

Voters in Arizona and Montana can decide on constitutional right to abortion
7 months ago

Voters in Arizona and Montana can decide on constitutional right to abortion

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Voters in Arizona and Montana will be able to decide in November whether they want to protect the right to an abortion in their state constitutions. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 200-word summary that abortion advocates used to collect signatures for a ballot measure is valid, clearing the way for the issue to remain on …

Abortions up in US despite state bans, driven by telehealth services
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Abortions up in US despite state bans, driven by telehealth services

Firstpost  

A new study by the Society of Family Planning shows that the number of abortions in the US has increased since the Supreme Court allowed states to impose strict bans on the procedure. The rise is largely attributed to greater access to abortion pills through telehealth services, with significant increases noted in Democratic-led states and declines in states with strict …

US abortion numbers rise slightly since Roe was overturned, study finds
7 months, 2 weeks ago

US abortion numbers rise slightly since Roe was overturned, study finds

Associated Press  

The number of women getting abortions in the U.S. actually went up in the first three months of 2024 compared with before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a report released Wednesday found, reflecting the lengths that Democratic-controlled states went to expand access. AP AUDIO: US abortion numbers have risen slightly since Roe was overturned, study finds AP correspondent …

Rise in pregnancy terminations in US after verdict favouring abortion overturned
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Rise in pregnancy terminations in US after verdict favouring abortion overturned

India Today  

The number of women getting abortions in the US actually went up in the first three months of 2024 compared with before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a report released Wednesday found, reflecting the lengths that Democratic-controlled states went to expand access. In March, doctors in states with laws to protect medical providers used telemedicine to prescribe abortion …

Utah’s near-total abortion ban to remain blocked until lower court assesses its constitutionality
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Utah’s near-total abortion ban to remain blocked until lower court assesses its constitutionality

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — A near-total abortion ban will remain on hold in Utah after the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the law should remain blocked until a lower court can assess its constitutionality. The panel wrote in its opinion that the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah had legal standing to challenge the state’s abortion trigger law, and that …

North Dakota judge will decide whether to throw out a challenge to the state’s abortion ban
8 months ago

North Dakota judge will decide whether to throw out a challenge to the state’s abortion ban

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — Attorneys argued Tuesday over whether a North Dakota judge should toss a lawsuit challenging the state’s abortion ban, with the state saying the plaintiffs’ case rests on hypotheticals, and the plaintiffs saying key issues remain to be resolved at a scheduled trial. State District Judge Bruce Romanick said he will rule as quickly as he can, but …

Editorial: They changed the wording in party platform, but the GOP still wants to ban abortion
8 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: They changed the wording in party platform, but the GOP still wants to ban abortion

LA Times  

Vance speaks as Donald Trump looks on at a 2022 rally in Youngstown, Ohio. States that voted for Trump in 2020, such as Ohio and Kansas, more recently voted to enshrine abortion rights into their state constitutions or rejected measures that would prohibit doing so after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in 2022. The statement continues with the …

National abortion ban "hidden in plain sight" in revised RNC agenda, legal experts say
8 months, 2 weeks ago

National abortion ban "hidden in plain sight" in revised RNC agenda, legal experts say

Salon  

Earlier this week, the Republican Party released its 16-page “Make America Great Again” policy platform ahead of its national convention. “The key to their true agenda here is the suggestion that the 14th Amendment of the federal constitution somehow empowers states to ban abortion,” Kolbi-Molinas said. The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United …

Republicans drop federal abortion limits from 2024 platform — after seeing it being used against GOP candidates
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Republicans drop federal abortion limits from 2024 platform — after seeing it being used against GOP candidates

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We believe that the 14th Amendment to the …

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