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Eight out of 10 French people favour enshrining the right to abortion in the country’s constitution, an opinion poll published Tuesday shows.

Elsewhere, Bette Midler has been using transgender people to make a point about the abortion crisis in the United States

The now-dead landmark ruling enshrined constitutional protections for abortion care

Witnesses speak of their terror after at least six killed and 30 injured at public event in Highland Park, Chicago. Plus, US drag queens stand their ground

Last week calls from Texas began flooding into a national abortion assistance hotline with Spanish-language operators: One woman called afraid to fly to New Mexico because of her immigration status. Another woman said she would have to keep her pregnancy because she feared deportation if she crossed state lines. A…

A history-making spring in Texas is laying the groundwork for a contentious final four months in the race to lead the state, where Republican incumbent Greg Abbott remains the favorite but is confronting his toughest Democratic opponent yet in Beto O’Rourke.

"What we're looking at is a natural experiment of a magnitude we haven't seen since the Roe era."

It’s no surprise that people opposing the rights of this minority are also anti-abortion, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones

States that ban or are likely to ban abortion already tend to have limited access to health care.

Now that Texas and the nation have had a week to absorb the reality of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, lawmakers, activists and legal analysts are trying to figure out how far states can — and will — go to eradicate abortion.

One of the more shameful moments in congressional history was the passage in 1850 of the Fugitive Slave Act. It required that even slavery-free Northern states must abet that evil institution by returning enslaved people who’d escaped from the South and believed they had attained freedom. With the Supreme Court’s…