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Legal Wrap: From Trayvon Martin to Texas, Justice and Equality Face Setbacks
Legal Wrap is a round-up of key reproductive rights and justice news. Overall last week was pretty terrible for justice and equality. Late Saturday evening a jury in the murder prosecution of George...
View Article2013 Home Run Derby
… so fierce that he once said he was lucky to be… The home to Roe v. Wade is once again a battleground over abortion, with the state legislature passing new restrictions. George Zimmerman, a former...
View ArticleThe federal office space of the future?
… so fierce that he once said he was lucky to be… The home to Roe v. Wade is once again a battleground over abortion, with the state legislature passing new restrictions. George Zimmerman, a former...
View ArticleEric Segall: The Week the Supreme Court Came Out of the Closet
… to found in Justice Ginsburg’s recent statement that she believes Roe v. Wade was a mistake because it resolved the abortion question in “one fell swoop.” I have written that this fear of backlash to...
View ArticleGuthrie, Steinbeck, Zimmerman, Martin
… Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill into law Wednesday that will put stricter regulations on clinics administering abortion-inducing drugs including RU-486. Abolitionists hope that events like these will...
View ArticleRich Lowry: Wendy Davis, Abortion Extremist
What Rosa Parks was to desegregation, what Eunice Kennedy Shriver was to respect for the disabled, what Elizabeth Cady Stanton was to women’s suffrage, the Texas state senator is to abortion after 20...
View ArticleTexas Senate passes abortion restrictions, opponents vow legal fight
Texas Senate lawmakers have followed their House counterparts in approving a series of abortion restrictions. The move has opponents vowing to take their fight to the courtroom and doctors at abortion...
View ArticleReid says he's open to senate abortion ban vote
But the Senate leader warns that Congress shouldn’t focus on “fringe” issues. Meanwhile, political analysts say the Republican push to limit abortions scores points with the party’s conservative base,...
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Illinois Supreme Court Upholds State’s Parental Involvement Statute
A unanimous decision by the Illinois supreme court last week brought an end to almost 20 years of litigation over the state’s parental involvement laws, upholding the constitutionality of a 1995 law...
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The Bishops v. Birth Control: It’s Not About the Money
In announcing its final rule concerning the Affordable Care Act’s guarantee of access to birth control without a co-pay for all American women—including the Catholics and non-Catholics who work in...
View ArticleJudge won't lift block on Wis. abortion law
A federal judge refused Wednesday to lift his temporary hold on a new requirement that Wisconsin abortion providers have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
View ArticleRegional News Stories: Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald…
… a small group of Dayton residents to talk about cuts to Medicaid and Planned Parenthood, and other restrictions on abortion that were signed by Kasich into the state budget. He continued his message...
View ArticleAbortion rights activists march through downtown Austin on July 1, 2013.
As an omnibus bill restricting abortion access in Texas makes its way to Gov. Rick Perry ‘s desk, opponents of the measure are already weighing the possibility of suing the state to stop implementation...
View ArticleLiberty University Loses Mandate Appeal; Plots Return to SCOTUS
… plans that provide for abortions only in limited cases (rape, incest, endangered life of mother), and even with no abortion services at all . ( 42 U.S.C. A 18023(b)(1)(A)(i) ). Finally, if none of...
View ArticleSebelius: Obamacare Opponents No Different Than Opponents of Civil Rights
… who opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s. While pro-life advocates oppose Obamacare because of its abortion funding provisions, the HHS mandate that thwarts religious conscience and for...
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Conservatives Still Litigating, Losing Over Obamacare
Last Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued the first major ruling on the constitutionality of the employer mandate in Obamacare since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of...
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Disapproval of North Carolina GOP, Governor Grows After Anti-Choice Bill...
As SB 353, the North Carolina motorcycle safety bill that was amended to include abortion restrictions, awaits review in the senate rules committee, Republican supporters of the bill, including Gov....
View ArticleRick Perry to sign sweeping abortion restrictions
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is set to sign into law sweeping new abortion restrictions that sparked weeks of protests at the state Capitol.
View ArticleCatholics must take
… Ed Markey, Nancy Pelosi, Kathleen Sebelius, John Kerry and many others who have voted for or come out in favor of abortion. In the past I think bishops were either timid, or as Mr. Hassett says,...
View ArticleAnti-Abortion Laws Continue to Proliferate
… of states enacting laws designed to block women from accessing abortions and other health care. More than 300 anti-abortion laws have been introduced in state legislatures this year. As of July 1, 43...
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