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Editorial: Lawmakers inflict heartbreak and harm with lax understanding of pregnancy

The nightmarish experience of an expectant mother in Texas underscores why lawmakers, in their zeal to protect the unborn at all costs, should have no business telling doctors how to do their jobs. The Houston woman, Elizabeth Weller, badly wanted a child and was heartbroken when her water broke at…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Feminism, abortion and "white innocence"

Bestselling author on the history lesson post-Roe feminism is about to learn: "White women are going to die"

Salon

This summer may be one of the most consequential in US democracy

The Long Summer of 2022 began in May, when the abortion opinion draft leaked, and continued through a series of brutal rulings and congressional hearings

The Guardian - US

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Commentary: The Supreme Court is unscientific and medically negligent

A pair of Supreme Court rulings in June — one on gun rights, the other on abortion — have elicited strong, partisan reactions.

Tribune News Service

Students demand ‘last resort’ emergency contraceptive vending machines on campuses after Roe ruling

‘Emergency contraception is a last resort.. because it’s the most prominent time of need’

The Independent UK

Pregnant women are having abortions because they fear they can't afford children

The rising cost of living is having a tragic consequence

Wales Online

'We are drowning in debt': Pregnant women forced to consider abortion because of soaring childcare costs

Six in ten women who have had an abortion claim childcare costs influenced their decision

Manchester Evening News

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What to watch in primaries in Arizona, Michigan, elsewhere

Primary elections are behind held in six states on Tuesday

The Independent UK

Victorian crossbench MP launches bid to compel religious hospitals to provide abortions

Reason Party leader Fiona Patten will introduce a bill into state parliament this week that would remove the right of hospitals that receive any taxpayer funding to refuse to offer reproductive health services and voluntary assisted dying due to "corporate conscientious objection".

ABC News

Vic push to curb hospital abortion refusal

Victorian crossbench MP Fiona Patten has unveiled a bill to remove public denominational hospitals' right to refuse abortion and assisted-dying services.

AAP

Victorian public hospitals could not prevent doctors from providing abortions under new bill

Reason party leader Fiona Patten, who is introducing the bill, says ‘imposed religious faith has no place in the public health system’

The Guardian - AU

Vulnerable House Dems see abortion as winning campaign theme

The Supreme Court’s decision to repeal a woman’s federal constitutional right to abortion has scrambled the political dynamics heading into the November elections, when control of Congress is at stake

The Independent UK

‘Summer of Mercy’: How protests changed abortion rights and politics in Kansas forever

They called it the “Summer of Mercy.”

Tribune News Service

Kansas referendum will test change in abortion landscape since Roe fell

The ballot measure is the first of many across the country that will decide where and how women can preserve reproductive rights

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Rinke downplays Trump's endorsement of Dixon in Michigan governor's race: 'He is batting 50%'

TROY, Mich. — Hours after his biggest opponent won Donald Trump’s endorsement, Republican gubernatorial candidate Kevin Rinke emerged Saturday morning at his campaign event undeterred, saying the former president's support doesn’t guarantee a win.

The Guardian - UK

Pregnant woman shocked after GP ‘gave her anti-abortion leaflet’

Woman was reportedly handed information from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children at London clinic

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: What's the role of personhood in abortion debate?

The concept of personhood that underlies anti-abortion laws in some states considers fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses as people with the same rights as those already born

Salon

What the Bible truly says about abortion

Here’s the problem: This 2,000-year-old text clarifies nothing about abortion

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The Independent UK

Overturning Roe v. Wade isn't the end for abortion opponents

Anti-abortion groups are looking to the courts, lawmakers and elections to facilitate more abortion restrictions and bans after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June left the issue up to states

The Independent UK

Indiana Senate to vote on near-total abortion ban

Indiana state senators are set to meet in a rare weekend session to vote on a near-total abortion ban

The Guardian - US

Yes, Republicans really did try to make abortion punishable by death

A bill introduced in the North Carolina legislature last year was largely performative but was part of the right’s strategy to make the unthinkable mainstream

Evening Standard

Judge who voted to overturn Roe v Wade steps down from teaching role

Thomas, 74, has faced a backlash for his part in ending the federal right to abortion by overturning the Roe v Wade ruling last month

Los Angeles Times

Doctors in abortion-ban states fear prosecution for treating patients with life-threatening pregnancies

Dr. Nikki Zite explained the situation to her patient: Her pregnancy could kill her.

Tribune News Service

Eager to enforce Kentucky’s abortion ban, AG Cameron again asks court to reinstate trigger law

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Continuing his dogged pursuit to enforce Kentucky’s abortion ban, Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron late Thursday asked a higher court to overturn a July 22 ruling that prevents his office from enforcing the trigger law.

The Texas Tribune

TribCast: A bill that would boost Texas’ semiconductor industry creates an unusual divide

On this week’s episode, Matthew speaks with Eric about the CHIPS Act and Eleanor about how abortion might be prosecuted in Texas.

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