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This is how life in post-Roe America is starting to shape up

As the Supreme Court prepared to issue its decision overturning Roe, NPR spent weeks speaking to experts and activists about what will likely happen next.

WEKU

Frustration at Biden and other Democrats grows among abortion-rights supporters

While abortion-rights supporters have focused their anger at the Supreme Court, but there was plenty aimed at Democrats who they feel let them down.

WEKU

Michigan shapes up as one of the next abortion battlefronts

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer tells NPR that abortion-rights supporters are fighting on all fronts to keep a 1931 ban from going back into effect.

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Fears of violence against pro-choice protests intensify amid wave of attacks

Use of teargas and arrests by police and targeting by anti-abortion activists disrupts demonstrations in multiple states

The Guardian - US

Religious groups divided on abortion

Despite claims that religious communities oppose abortion, the reality is much more complicated

Salon

Michael Hiltzik: America is in the grip of a right-wing minority

Republicans and conservatives are fond of the shibboleth that "America is a republic, not a democracy." Boiled down to its essence, the phrase is a justification for awarding a strong voice in government to minority political views.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: NC Republican hits a shameful low in justifying Supreme Court abortion ruling

Nobody should ever have to justify why they want or need an abortion. But there are some circumstances, such as rape and incest, that make it even more unconscionable to deny pregnant people of their fundamental right to choose.

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Commentary: How to move forward after the destruction of Roe v. Wade

There are virtually no precedents in American law in which a right — declared fundamental by the Supreme Court — was erased. While the court has overhauled constitutional protections before, the complete retraction of the right to abortion sets the nation on a course it has never seen.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: It now falls on states like Maryland to uphold women’s right to choose

By striking down Roe v. Wade which has for nearly five decades protected the right of women to terminate pregnancy, the U.S. Supreme Court has not only turned its back on legal precedent and many of their own personal pledges to uphold Roe as “settled law” made during U.S. Senate…

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Erika D. Smith: In a chaotic post-Roe world, here's what it will take for women to still get abortions

Brittany Fonteno never wanted to imagine the chaos of a post-Roe world.

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: With Roe overturned, will Democrats finally learn that losing parties can't construct the court?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Elections have consequences. That's a cliché, but clichés are born of truths. And this is a truth: If a Democrat had been elected president in 2016, we wouldn't have a right-wing Supreme Court.

Los Angeles Times

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul, who replaced Cuomo, faces Democrats

New Yorkers are casting votes in a governor’s race that for the first time in a decade does not include the name “Cuomo” at the top of the ticket

The Independent UK

Californians can vote to add abortion to the state's constitutional rights

The amendment, which comes three days after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case, will go to midterm elections on Nov. 8.

WEKU

WA won't commit to abortion law changes

Western Australia's health minister says she's well aware the state's abortion laws need modernising but refused to say when they will change.

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Election 2022: Abortion central in first post-Roe primaries

Tuesday marks the first elections since the Supreme Court revoked a woman's constitutional right to an abortion

The Guardian - AU

Having an abortion made me realise Australia must do more to make it accessible and affordable

There are still many barriers to accessing abortion in states where it is decriminalised – more so for regional and remote communities

The Guardian - UK

‘If you love or are a woman, don’t go to Malta,’ say couple in abortion drama

After her ‘babymoon’ became a tragic medical crisis, Andrea Prudente wants to use her story to oppose bans on abortion

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Post Roe, women in America are right to be concerned about digital surveillance – and it’s not just period-tracking apps

The reversal of Roe v. Wade by the American Supreme court last week is a watershed moment in American politics. The ruling withdraws constitutional protections for abortion rights and sends the issue to the states, around half of which are expected to ban abortions.

The Independent UK

Post Roe: Dems challenge GOP to show they care for mothers

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn national protections for abortion has set off a contest between Democratic and Republican lawmakers over whose policies would do more to help vulnerable mothers and children

WEKU

Instagram and Facebook begin removing posts offering abortion pills

Social media posts ostensibly aimed to help women living in states where preexisting laws banning abortion suddenly snapped into effect last Friday.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Wells Fargo says it will cover employees' travel costs for legal abortion services

Wells Fargo, which manages the largest branch-banking systems in the U.S., on Monday told its 246,000 employees that as of Friday, July 1, "we're expanding the coverage of our travel benefit to include reimbursement of transportation and lodging costs for legal abortion-related services" for women covered by Wells Fargo medical…

The Independent UK

Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills

Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure

The Texas Tribune

Roe v. Wade, overturned: Scenes of despair and joy after a historic decision

Texans on both sides of the abortion debate marched, rallied and chanted after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Tribune News Service

Planned Parenthood sues in Idaho Supreme Court to stop trigger law that bans abortion

A Planned Parenthood affiliate on Monday filed a lawsuit in the Idaho Supreme Court seeking to stop the state’s trigger law that would effectively ban abortion in the state after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

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