- Here's How Conservatives Are Using Civil Rights Law to Restrict Abortion https://time.com/5753300/heartbeat-bill-civil-rights-law/ 8 comments politics
- Poland’s restrictive abortion law violates women’s rights, UN committee finds https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/08/27/polands-restrictive-abortion-law-violated-womens-rights-un-committee-finds/ 23 comments worldnews
- Poland’s restrictive abortion law violates women’s rights, UN committee finds https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/08/27/polands-restrictive-abortion-law-violated-womens-rights-un-committee-finds/ 2 comments europes
- Poland’s restrictive abortion law violated women’s rights, UN committee finds https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/08/27/polands-restrictive-abortion-law-violated-womens-rights-un-committee-finds/ 23 comments europe
- Abortion rights advocates will march across U.S. to protest restrictive laws https://www.reuters.com/world/us/abortion-rights-advocates-will-march-across-us-protest-restrictive-laws-2021-10-02/ 43 comments politics
- House to vote on abortion rights bill after Supreme Court declines to block restrictive Texas law https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/02/texas-abortion-law-pelosi-says-house-will-vote-on-bill-after-supreme-court-ruling.html 3 comments politics
- House to vote on abortion rights bill after Supreme Court declines to block restrictive Texas law https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/02/texas-abortion-law-pelosi-says-house-will-vote-on-bill-after-supreme-court-ruling.html 33 comments politics
- Texas' anti-abortion law “could just as easily be used by other States to restrict First or Second Amendment rights,” the Firearms Policy Coalition tells SCOTUS https://reason.com/2021/10/22/gun-rights-activists-join-abortion-rights-activists-to-fight-texas-abortion-law/ 37 comments politics
- US Abortion Rights News: Trigger Bans Just Went Into Effect In 3 More States: Laws That Depended On The Fall Of Roe v. Wade Are Now In Place In Idaho, Tennessee & Texas, Which Already Had Strict Abortion Restrictions https://www.huffpost.com/entry/abortion-trigger-bans-just-went-into-effect-in-3-more-states_n_63066ebee4b00c150d67552a 3 comments law
- ‘Historic moment’ as El Salvador abortion case fuels hopes for expanded access across Latin America | Human rights court hears seriously ill woman denied procedure as advocates call for change in region with world’s most restrictive abortion laws https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/mar/24/historic-moment-as-el-salvador-abortion-case-fuels-hopes-for-expanded-access-across-latin-america 2 comments worldnews
- Court to hear bid for new defense of Kentucky abortion law - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Kentucky's attorney general, who wants to be allowed to defend a restriction on abortion rights that lower courts had struck down. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-abortion-kentucky-iduskbn2bl1vx 6 comments politics
- The ACLU, Center for Reproductive Rights, and Planned Parenthood Have Leveled a Coordinated Legal Strike on Restrictive Abortion Laws in Three States https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/aclu-center-reproductive-rights-and-planned-parenthood-have-leveled-coordinated 87 comments politics
- Ireland’s abortion laws violated woman's human rights, says UN: Landmark ruling finds country’s restrictive abortion legislation subjected Amanda Mellet to emotional and mental suffering https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/09/ireland-abortion-laws-violated-human-rights-says-un 49 comments worldnews
- A U.S. judge on Monday ruled unconstitutional an Alabama law that threatened to close three of the state's five abortion clinics while a hearing opened in Texas with an abortion rights group trying to overturn restrictions imposed in that state. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/04/us-usa-alabama-abortion-iduskbn0g41gz20140804?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews 6 comments politics
- Two more states -- Kansas and Nebraska -- restrict abortion rights through "fetal pain" laws that prohibits abortions after 21 weeks; group says trend is "unparalleled" and contends "hostility" toward abortion rights is on the rise in legislatures across the country http://www.cnn.com/2011/us/04/13/abortion.state.laws/index.html 6 comments politics
- In Turkey, Abortion Law Sparks New Battle Over Mosque Versus State - In the latest clash over the role of religion in Turkish society, thousands in Istanbul have rallied against a proposed new law that would restrict abortion rights http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/06/in-turkey-abortion-law-sparks-new-battle-over-mosque-versus-state.html 9 comments worldnews
- Idaho GOP Lawmaker Aims to Remove Rape and Incest Exceptions to Abortion Law. Polling indicates that Idaho residents want abortion rights expanded, not further restricted. https://truthout.org/articles/idaho-gop-lawmaker-aims-to-remove-rape-and-incest-exceptions-to-abortion-law/ 19 comments politics
- The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear a case from Mississippi challenging Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. The case will give the court’s new 6-to-3 conservative majority its first opportunity to weigh in on state laws restricting abortion. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/us/politics/supreme-court-abortion.html?amp%3Bemc=edit_na_20210517&%3Binstance_id=0&%3Bnl=breaking-news&%3Bref=cta&%3Bregi_id=105211976&%3Bsegment_id=58277&%3Buser_id=cfa5254541a6d9268c3414aebfd54871&campaign_id=60 217 comments law
- Polish abortion rights proponents, most of them women, are marching in Warsaw and elsewhere in Poland to express their opposition to a proposal in parliament to further tighten the country’s already restrictive abortion law. https://apnews.com/51f326dca0474d718cda6f470c227f28/women-march-in-polish-cities-to-demand-abortion-rights 43 comments worldnews
- Spain has approved a sweeping new law that eases restrictions on abortion, declaring the practice a woman's right and doing away with the threat of imprisonment, in part of a drive toward liberal policies that has angered conservatives and the Catholic Church. http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/02/24/967728/spanish-senate-approves-new-abortion.html 30 comments worldnews
- Could It Soon Be a Crime to Cross State Lines for an Abortion? | As law professors who teach about reproductive justice, we view attempts to restrict abortion travel as one of the frontiers in the anti-abortion rights movement, raising new legal questions for courts to unravel. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/crime-to-cross-state-lines-for-abortion 28 comments politics
- This 19th-Century Obscenity Law Is Still Restricting People's Reproductive Rights | The Comstock Act is part of a federal case over access to abortion pills. A historical science-fiction writer weighs in on the legacy of 19th-century prudishness https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-19th-century-obscenity-law-is-still-restricting-peoples-reproductive-rights/ 5 comments politics
- The Abortion Restrictions That Will Snap Into Place the Minute Roe Goes Down: Conservative lawmakers across the country have enacted “trigger laws” that will radically alter the legal landscape overnight if the Supreme Court overturns reproductive rights. http://newrepublic.com/article/166393/trigger-laws-abortion-alito-roe 20 comments politics
- The Supreme Court’s eagerness to overturn Roe v. Wade is a bad sign for LGBTQ rights. The oral arguments in the case involving a restrictive Mississippi abortion law made it clear that overturning LGBTQ rights wouldn't bother some conservative Justices. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/12/supreme-courts-eagerness-overturn-roe-v-wade-bad-sign-lgbtq-rights/ 214 comments politics
- Pro-lifers are using civil rights protections to lobby against early abortions. New pro-life strategies to restrict abortion include quoting laws designed to protect slaves and same-sex couples, while deliberately misrepresenting medical facts to argue a heartbeat indicates life. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/tfg-pec121319.php 1212 comments science
- "Two arch-conservative states in the American Bible belt have this week formed a new “non-medical” front in the battle over reproductive rights, with laws that sharply restrict a method routinely used to perform second-trimester abortions." http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/09/anti-abortion-campaigns-us-states-non-medical 20 comments politics