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Facing pressure, Biden to sign order on abortion access

President Joe Biden will take executive action on to protect access to abortion, according to three people familiar with the matter, as he faces mounting pressure from Democrats to be more forceful on the subject after the Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to the procedure two weeks ago

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Most Texans disapprove of trigger law banning abortion, say state is on wrong track

A majority of Texans disapprove of the state’s trigger law, which will ban almost all abortions, new polling shows.

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Nevada senator focuses on abortion in critical November race

Sandwiched between supporters holding “BANS OFF OUR BODIES” signs and TV cameras on Thursday, U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto portrayed her reelection campaign against Republican Adam Laxalt as the defining moment in a decadeslong fight for reproductive freedom, even in pro-choice Nevada

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Michigan's GOP-led Legislature asks appeals court to reject injunction blocking state abortion ban

DETROIT — Michigan's Republican-controlled Legislature has asked an appellate court to overturn a judge's preliminary injunction currently stopping Michigan's abortion ban from being enforced.

Tribune News Service

Three candidates running in Republican primary for Kansas Attorney General

Kris Kobach, Tony Mattivi, and Kellie Warren are running in the August 2, 2022, Republican primary for Kansas attorney general. Incumbent Derek Schmidt (R) is running in the Republican primary for Kansas governor.

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McConnell briefly floated a national abortion ban. Democrats have seized on that.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell’s suggestion that Republicans could pursue federal legislation to ban abortion everywhere has supplied potent political ammunition to Democrats’ midterm campaign strategy.

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Mississippi's last abortion clinic shuts down. The owner promises to continue working

The clinic is now headed to Las Cruces, New Mexico, about 40 miles north of El Paso, Texas.

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‘This is a crisis’: 6 in 10 women who had abortion say childcare costs put them off pregnancy

‘If I had continued my pregnancy of a much-wanted child I would have had to quit my job to care for them. This would have meant we had to sell our home,’ mother-of-one says

The Independent UK

The harm of abortion waiting periods

“With access compromised, waiting periods make accessing care even more burdensome,” one expert told Salon

Salon

Nadine Dorries’ call for abortion time limit to be reduced in UK sparks fury

Culture secretary argues UK’s abortion limit should be reduced by four weeks

The Independent UK

North Dakota's only abortion clinic files lawsuit to block enforcement of trigger ban

North Dakota's only abortion provider filed a lawsuit in state court Thursday attempting to block enforcement of the state's trigger ban.

Tribune News Service

Abbott's lead over Beto shrinks: poll

Abbott's lead now smaller than when Republican George W. Bush ousted Democrat Ann Richards in 1994

Salon

'Fighting for one day': Louisiana abortion clinic still open

Nearly two weeks after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was overturned, an abortion clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana, is still providing abortions

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Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Fall Again, Home Price Growth Cools, Roe V. Wade Influences Homebuyers

This week in the housing world, mortgage rates declined for the second consecutive week as home price growth slowed, the level of mortgage delinquencies remained low and the Roe v. Wade controversy permeated the homebuying process.

Reason

The Troubling Meaning of the 'We Will Adopt Your Baby' Meme Wars

The debate isn’t a panorama of the whole American abortion war, but it is a snapshot of a key battle after a surprise victory, and it shows no path to peace.

Salon

"They will pray with us"

Right-wing anti-abortion group holds prayer ceremonies with SCOTUS justices: report

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Colorado governor issues executive order to protect abortion access

Jared Polis pledges that his state will not assist other states in criminal or civil investigations into abortions

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Texas Observer

Roe’s Grassroots Beginnings

The landmark abortion case had its origins in campus activism at UT Austin, including journalists at a feminist newspaper called the Rag.

Los Angeles Times

The last abortion clinic in Mississippi closes its doors

JACKSON, Miss. — Just before dawn Wednesday outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization, Derenda Hancock propped a hand-scrawled placard on a folding chair.

The Independent UK

EU Parliament condemns US abortion ruling, seeks safeguards

The European Union’s parliament has called for abortion safeguards to be enshrined in the EU’s fundamental rights charter

The Conversation

Access to reproductive health care has been harder for Black and brown women – overturning Roe made it harder

In a mere few days after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, at least seven states banned abortion.

Los Angeles Times

More than half of Floridians oppose abortion bans. Will they push back at the polls?

ORLANDO, Fla. — For Wendy Vargas, the recent elimination of a constitutional right to abortion — and the banning of the procedure in many Republican-controlled states — is an affront to her values as both a woman and an American.

Tribune News Service

Lack of exceptions for rape or incest under Missouri abortion ban fuels anger from advocates

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When the Missouri House in 2019 debated the bill that became the state’s abortion ban, then-state Rep. Bryan Spencer quickly raised — and praised — the proposal’s lack of exceptions for victims of rape and incest.

Miami Herald

US Supreme Court decision could derail abortion rights moves in Latin America

MIAMI — The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing abortion rights is likely to energize efforts to curtail or ban the procedures throughout Latin America, where countries have been slowly moving toward allowing women greater reproductive rights, experts say.

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