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Man sentenced to life in prison for rape of 10-year-old girl in Ohio abortion case that drew national attention

Gerson Fuentes will serve at least 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to rape in a case that right-wing pundits falsely dismissed as a hoax in the aftermath of Roe v Wade

The Independent UK

Iowa's Republican governor calls a special legislative session to revive abortion restrictions

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has called a special legislative session so lawmakers can enact new abortion restrictions

The Independent UK

Ohio could be the fourth state to vote on a state constitutional right to abortion after campaign files signatures for Nov. 2023 ballot

Ohio could be the fourth state, following California, Michigan, and Vermont in 2022, to establish an explicit state constitutional right to abortion. On July 5, the campaign Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom submitted more than 710,131 signatures for a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment to provide that “every individual has a right to…

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Man jailed for life for raping girl, 10, who was forced to travel for abortion

The man who raped a 10-year-old Ohio girl and forced her to travel out of state for an abortion was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years

Daily Mirror

Indiana abortions drop sharply ahead of state ban possibly taking effect, state reports show

The number of abortions being performed in Indiana has dropped steeply even before a court ruling that has a Republican-backed abortion ban set to potentially take effect in the coming weeks

The Independent UK

GOP fears abortion may cost it majority

Republican strategists worry right-wing lawmakers are going to sabotage the party's 2024 chances

Salon

Ohio abortion rights backers submit nearly double needed signatures for fall ballot measure

Groups hoping to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s constitution have delivered nearly double the number of signatures needed to place an amendment on the fall statewide ballot

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Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show

In 2015, Democratic Elk Grove Assemblyman Jim Cooper voted for Senate Bill 34, which restricted law enforcement from sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state authorities. In 2023, now-Sacramento County Sheriff Cooper appears to be doing just that.

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Danny Westneat: In the Washington v. Idaho abortion wars, data shows Idaho is losing

SEATTLE — Now that a year has passed since women lost the right to abortion, we can assess how our neighbor Idaho's near-total ban on it is faring.

Tribune News Service

How NHS rescued Britain's health after years of home surgery and backstreet abortions

Early beneficiaries of our National Health Service recall their marvel at modern medicine - and how Britain was saved from health poverty by the revolutionary concept

Daily Mirror

Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux on gender and social class

For decades, Annie Ernaux has written fearlessly about sex, abortion and illness – laying bare herself and society. Her deeply intimate and political work earned the French writer the Nobel Prize for literature last October. Ernaux spoke to FRANCE 24's Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Sicily, where…

France 24

‘You’re able to vote now’: Minnesota Democrats pass raft of progressive reforms

The state was one of a few to secure a Democratic trifecta in 2022, and since then has passed abortion rights along with voting rights and democracy reform legislation

The Guardian - US

In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths

The state's abortion bans make no exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies. Two women had devastating pregnancy diagnoses — one could leave the state for an abortion, and the other could not.

WEKU

Abortion access could continue to change in year 2 after the overturn of Roe v. Wade

It's already harder to get an abortion in many places and access is likely to be limited more with the passage of new laws.

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Los Angeles Times

Commentary: A declaration of non-independence — for women

If men could get pregnant, the saying goes, the Declaration of Independence might well have declared that all men are endowed with the right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and a safe abortion. A colleague once suggested to me that such phrasing wouldn’t have been necessary. It would…

The Independent UK

LOCALIZE IT: New state laws on gender-affirming care, abortion, guns and drugs take effect

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Belfast Live

Anti-abortion protests to be banned within NI 'Safe Access Zones'

The zones will be established in the vicinity of health care premises providing lawful abortions

Fortune

George Soros’s foundation cuts 40% of staff just 1 month after 92-year-old billionaire handed his empire over to his millennial son

Alexander Soros has pledged that under his leadership, the foundation will give greater support to abortion and voting rights.

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Pro-choice Catholics fight to seize the narrative from the religious right

For one organization the belief in individual reproductive rights comes as a result of the Catholic faith, not in spite of

Chicago Sun-Times

Abortion bans in other states fuel rise in high-risk patients at Chicago hospitals: ‘Doctors told me the baby could die tomorrow’

Even in states that allow abortion if the life of the mother is in danger, doctors say fear of prosecution is leading many to send high-risk patients to Illinois.

Reason

After Rucho, Dobbs, and Moore, State Supreme Courts Take On Even More Significance

As the unelected judiciary becomes depoliticized, the elected judiciary becomes more politicized.

The Week

The Week Unwrapped: Europe’s right turn, abortion and snakes

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Jamie Timson, Felicity Capon and Arion McNicoll.

The Independent UK

After fall of Roe, emboldened religious conservatives lobby to restrict abortion in Africa

When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion a year ago, it shook efforts to legalize and make abortions safer in Africa

Reason

Indiana Constitution Protects Right to Abortion When Necessary to Protect Woman's Life or Health, But Not Otherwise

In Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana v. Planned Parenthood, decided Friday, the Indiana Supreme Court (in an opinion by Justice Derek Molter, joined by Chief Justice Loretta Rush and Justice Mark Massa) concluded that the Indiana Constitution's protection of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" "protects…

Reason

Indiana Constitution Protects Long-Established Unenumerated Rights, Including Personal and Economic Rights

So the Indiana Supreme Court held yesterday, though it concluded that, as to abortion, this is limited to situations where the abortion is necessary to protect the woman's life or health.

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