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What does Mexico’s vote to decriminalise abortion mean?

Federal public health services are now able to offer the procedure to anyone who requests it – that means access for millions of Mexicans in the country

The Independent UK

Latin America women's rights groups say their abortion win in Mexico may hold the key to US struggle

Women’s rights activists in Latin America have long looked to the United States as a model in their decades-long struggle to chip away at abortion restrictions in their highly religious countries

The Independent UK

Mexican activists hail abortion ruling but warn of lack of access to care

Campaigners say many facilities and medical workers are likely to deny access since procedure is banned in many local jurisdictions

The Guardian - US

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Over a Year After Dobbs, Abortions Have Increased Nationwide

Despite state-level bans, new data show around 46,000 more abortions were performed during the first six months of 2023 than during the same period in 2020.

Reason

Abortion bans stranding more patients

New research predicts the problem will only worsen, resulting in three-quarters of women under bans giving birth

Salon

Behind Scotland’s record high abortion figures

Experts have linked Scotland’s record-high number of abortions last year with social media misinformation and the cost-of-living crisis.

The Week

Mexico decriminalises abortion nationwide in historic Supreme Court ruling

Landmark ruling is extention of growing ‘green wave’ in Latin America

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Court decriminalises abortion across Mexico in landmark ruling

‘We need to wait to see how this is going to be applied and how far it reaches,’ said one campaigner

Evening Standard

Mexico ends federal ban on abortion, but patchwork of state restrictions remains

A Mexican Supreme Court ruling that invalidated all federal criminal penalties for abortion continued a regional trend of widening access to the procedure, but left in place a patchwork of varying state restrictions

The Independent UK

New state abortion numbers show increases in some surprising places

What happened to abortion numbers since Roe v. Wade fell? The Guttmacher Institute has new state-by-state numbers that show people are traveling for the procedure.

WEKU

Hundreds of military promotions are on hold as Republican senator demands end to abortion policy

Top military officials are voicing their concerns that national security is being harmed by an impasse that has stalled more than 300 top military promotions

The Independent UK

Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access

The country's Supreme Court ordered that abortion be removed from the federal penal code, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women's rights.

WEKU

Navy secretary slams GOP Sen. Tuberville

Tuberville's eight month blockade over Pentagon abortion policy is hurting officers, military leaders told CNN

Salon

Mexico supreme court decriminalizes abortion across country

Decision to remove abortion from federal penal code comes amid trend in Latin America of loosening restrictions on procedure

The Guardian - US

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The Independent UK

Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide

Mexico’s Supreme Court has decriminalized abortion nationwide two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state

Roll Call

Democrats eye workarounds to Tuberville blockade - Roll Call

Frustration builds in Senate as hundreds of senior military promotions remain in limbo over opposition to Pentagon's abortion policy

The Independent UK

Wisconsin Democrats combat impeachment of court justice with $4M effort

The Wisconsin Democratic Party has launched a $4 million effort to pressure Republicans to back down from impeaching a new liberal state Supreme Court justice

The Independent UK

Kentucky Democrat Beshear links GOP challenger to reality of abortion law in reelection campaign

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has pushed his opposition to Kentucky’s abortion ban to the forefront of his reelection campaign

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Florida initiative to prohibit abortion restrictions qualifies for state supreme court review

Floridians Protecting Freedom, sponsors of an initiative that would prohibit restrictions on abortions before fetal viability, have submitted 297,586 valid signatures as of Sept. 1, qualifying the proposal for a review by the state supreme court.

The Independent UK

Complaints over campaign comments by Wisconsin Supreme Court justice are dismissed

A state judiciary disciplinary panel has rejected several complaints lodged against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz alleging that she violated the judicial code of ethics for comments she made during the campaign

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s refusal to tie public hospital funding to full reproductive care condemned as ‘outrageous’

Women forced to ‘shop around’ for abortion care due to Catholic public hospitals’ refusal to provide terminations

The Guardian - AU

These women were told their babies would not survive – but Catholic-run public hospitals refused to provide abortions

Both Jennifer and Amy were devastated when their wanted pregnancies were deemed unviable, but they were forced to go elsewhere when Australia’s Catholic-run public hospitals would not terminate

Reason

May a Judge Sanction Lawyers by Requiring Them to Get Remedial Training from a Particular Ideological Organization?

An important question, whether the judge orders lawyers to be trained on religious liberty by the Alliance Defending Freedom, on transgender rights by Lambda Legal, or on race discrimination law by the ACLU.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: US pro-birth conference’s links to far-right eugenicists revealed

Natal conference, to be held in Austin in December, promoted on far-right podcast circuit and set to host self-described eugenicists. Plus, the age problem neither US political party wants to talk about

The Independent UK

Ohio votes on abortion rights this fall. Misinformation about the proposal is already spreading

A ballot measure in Ohio that would guarantee access to abortion rights is fueling misleading claims about how the proposal could influence abortion care, gender-related health care and parental consent in the state

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