In a show vote aimed to draw harsh partisan lines ahead of the November elections, a Democratic-led bill to ensure abortion access statewide failed to move in the Senate on Wednesday. The voting on the Women’s Health Protection Act was presided over by Vice President Kamala Harris. It required 60 votes to progress, but it … Read more
The possibility of the US overturning decades of abortion rights, which surfaced this week in a leaked draft opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, sent shockwaves through many Latin American countries, where many feminist organizations have long looked to the US as a model of greater reproductive rights and freedoms. In recent years, however, … Read more
Former Vice President Mike Pence decried planned protests by abortion campaigners outside Catholic churches during Mother’s Day weekend, just days after a draft Supreme Court judgment overturning the historic Roe v. Wade abortion case came out. Pence spoke on Saturday before his graduating address at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia, in which he termed … Read more
Oklahoma is just the latest in a string of Republican-controlled legislatures that looked to rush through a slew of contentious measures in recent months in anticipation of a Supreme Court decision that might shift jurisdiction on the issue from the federal government to the states. The measure is now on its way to the governor’s … Read more
Case of Lizelle Harrera: Self induced abortion; murder charges drop Lizelle Herrera, 26, was captured on Friday and blamed for “deliberately and intentionally causing the demise of a person by self-instigated early termination” in January, as indicated by the nearby sheriff’s office. Be that as it may, it was never clarified what she purportedly did … Read more
In a challenge brought by President Joe Biden’s administration after the US Supreme Court had allowed it to take effect, a federal judge temporarily blocked a near-total ban on abortion in Texas, the toughest such law in the United States. The decision by US District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin on Wednesday prevents the state … Read more
Prohibiting legal access to abortions does not end abortion; it instead compels women to seek unsafe abortions, violating their rights and increasing maternal mortality and morbidity, said Amnesty International USA Gender, Sexuality and Identity Programmes Director Tarah Demant on World Safe Abortion Day. In recognition of the International Safe Abortion Day on September 28, the … Read more
The US Supreme Court has reigned that a law limiting abortions in Louisiana is unconstitutional. A law is in practice according to which doctors who offer abortions have the right to admit patients at a local hospital. Justices said in a landmark decision that this law placed an undue burden on women. Chief Justice John Roberts … Read more
