Tag: Abortion
There Are More Than Two Sides to the Abortion Debate
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Earlier this week I curated some nuanced commentary on abortion and solicited your thoughts on the same subject. What follows includes perspectives from several different sides of the debate. I hope each one informs your thinking, even if only about how some other people think.
We begin with a personal reflection.
Cheryl was 16 when New York State passed a statute legalizing abortion and 19 when Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. At … Read more
Finding Nuance in the Abortion Debate
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Abortion has been discussed intensely this past week due to oral arguments in a Supreme Court case that could significantly alter the constitutional right to the procedure in the United States. At issue is a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, contra current precedent. If upheld, the law will likely inspire new abortion restrictions in many red states.
The Legal Fight
We begin with the law’s sponsor,
The Christian Legal Army Behind the Ban on Abortion in Mississippi
The Judge Who Told the Truth About the Mississippi Abortion Ban
Of all the arguments that animate the anti-abortion cause, two stand out as particularly far-fetched: that banning abortion protects women’s health and shields African Americans from genocide. Yet for years, these arguments have driven debates over state laws, served as justifications for court decisions upholding those laws, and even appeared on billboards warning women in predominantly Black communities not to kill their babies. Three years ago, Mississippi lawmakers prohibited almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy to save
This Supreme Court Case May Be The Final Battle In The Long War On Abortion Rights
Shannon Brewer has called the Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Mississippi a sort of second home since she began working there as a sterilization technician in 2001. Fast forward 20 years and Brewer is now the director of JWHO, the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, and she’s headed to the Supreme Court in Washington to take on the fight of her life.
In just two days, the high court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson
Scotus preview for big abortion rights case from Mississippi to be argued next week
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The future of abortion rights in the U.S. is now before the Supreme Court, where the 6-3 conservative majority may be poised to strike down or severely limit the impact of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing the controversial procedure.
An upcoming case from Mississippi represents arguably the court’s most dramatic opportunity to overturn its own precedent since Brown v. Board of Education.
That may be because few social
Mexico’s Historic Step Toward Legalizing Abortion
On September 6th, Laura Hernández turned on her TV and began to record an event that she had waited for years to witness: the Mexican Supreme Court’s ruling on whether the criminalization of abortion was constitutional. A psychologist by training and a native of the northern state of Coahuila, Hernández is the co-founder of Acompañantes Laguna, a network of volunteers that has helped thousands of people obtain abortions over the years. Until recently, Coahuila, which borders Texas, had stringent prohibitions
Inside Joe Biden’s New ‘Gender Equity’ Plan: Taxpayer-Funded Abortion, Gender Ideology, Identity Politics
The Biden administration released the “National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality” last Friday. “This is our vision for the future of our nation—one that is bold in strategy,” said an enthusiastic Vice President Kamala Harris.
Yet a close look at the 42-page report finds that it seeks to profoundly change “social and cultural norms” about gender identity, eradicate “harmful gender norms” like masculinity and femininity, radically expand abortion funding at home and overseas, promote transgenderism and the erasure of
ANALYSIS: Supreme Court begins new term highlighted by direct challenge to Roe v Wade abortion rights
In a recent speech, Justice Clarence Thomas criticized the media and interest groups for suggesting judges play politics with their cases.
“So if they think you are anti-abortion or something personally, they think that’s the way you always will come out,” the 73-year-old Supreme Court justice said. “They think you become like a politician. That’s a problem. You’re going to jeopardize any faith in the legal institutions.”
Days earlier, his colleague Justice Amy Coney Barrett was more blunt:
“My goal
