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Washington (AFP) - When a Democrat ousted Republicans from a district in deeply conservative Alabama this week, she won hearts and minds with a pitch about repealing the state's no-exceptions abortion ban and protecting reproductive rights. Marilyn Lands's triumph was the first major test of public reaction to a court ruling that halted in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the state -- and the latest demonstration of the threat the issue poses to the Grand Old Party (GOP). Democrats framed the vote as a sign of what to expect in November as President Joe Biden vies for reelection against Donald Tru...
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With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia. The fierce debate has fueled divisions in the European Union nation of about 3.9 million people where abortion remains legal but access to the procedure is often denied, sending many women to neighbouring Slovenia to end a pregnancy. The movement is in stark contrast to Croatia’s recent past when it was part of the former Yugoslavia, a Communist-run country that protected ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared poised to reject restrictions imposed by a lower court on an abortion pill widely used in the United States to terminate pregnancies. Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside as the top court heard its first significant abortion case since the justices overturned the constitutional right to the procedure nearly two years ago. A majority on the conservative-dominated court appeared skeptical during 90 minutes of arguments about the legal standing of the anti-abortion groups and physicians who brought the case against the medication, mi...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - A widely used pill is at the center of the latest legal battle in America's ongoing debate over abortion. The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday about restrictions placed by a lower court on mifepristone, which is used for medication abortions. Here is background on the drug and its use: How widespread is abortion pill use?According to the Guttmacher Institute, the pill accounted for 63 percent of the abortions in the United States last year, up from 53 percent in 2020. While the number of medication abortions has gone up dramatically in the United States in recent ...
AFP
Lawyers from the conservative Christian group that won the case to overturn Roe v. Wade are returning to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in pursuit of an urgent priority: shutting down access to abortion pills for women across the country. The case challenges the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, a prescription-only drug approved in 2000 with a stellar safety record that is used in 63% of all U.S. abortions. Viewed across decades of anti-abortion activism, the case brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom represents a “moonshot” couched in technical arguments about pharmaceutical oversight ...
Kaiser Health News
Lawyers from the conservative Christian group that won the case to overturn Roe v. Wade are returning to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in pursuit of an urgent priority: shutting down access to abortion pills for women across the country. The case challenges the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, a prescription-only drug approved in 2000 with a stellar safety record that is used in 63% of all U.S. abortions. Viewed across decades of anti-abortion activism, the case brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom represents a “moonshot” couched in technical arguments about pharmaceutical oversight ...
California Healthline
ST. LOUIS — In early February, abortion rights supporters gathered to change Missouri history at the Pageant — a storied club where rock ’n’ roll revolutionary Chuck Berry often had played: They launched a signature-gathering campaign to put a constitutional amendment to voters this year to legalize abortion in the state. “We have fought long for this moment,” the Rev. Love Holt), the emcee, told the crowd. “Just two years after Missouri made abortion illegal in virtually all circumstances, the people of our state are going to forever protect abortion access in Missouri’s constitution.” The ba...
Kaiser Health News
Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump said Sunday he favors a national abortion ban after a certain number of weeks, with exceptions -- but did not confirm how many weeks, leaving his stance on a top US election issue murky. The former president said that he would "soon" issue a proposal on the number of weeks at which a ban should be implemented, as he spoke to "MediaBuzz" on Fox News days after becoming the presumptive Republican nominee for November's White House race. Trump was asked about a New York Times article from February that said he had told advisers he liked the idea of a 16-week nation...
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Washington (AFP) - US Vice President Kamala Harris toured an abortion clinic Thursday, highlighting the key election issue of reproductive rights in what is believed to be the first such visit by a president or vice president. "We have to be a nation that trusts women," the Democrat said as she met staff at the Planned Parenthood center in Saint Paul in the Midwestern state of Minnesota. "These attacks against an individual's right to make decisions about their own body are outrageous," said Harris, who is the first female, Black and South Asian vice president in US history. The landmark visi...
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A years-long battle over abortion access in a sprawling and sparsely populated region of the U.S. may come to a head this year in the courts and at the ballot box. Challenges to several state laws designed to chip away at abortion access are pending in Montana courts. Meanwhile, abortion rights advocates are pushing a ballot initiative that would add extra protections to the state constitution. And two open state Supreme Court seats could shape whether the high court upholds past decisions that protected abortion rights in the state. Abortion remains legal in the conservative stronghold becaus...
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