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First Thing: Senate blocks bill to codify abortion rights

After conservative Democrat Joe Manchin joins Republicans to vote against measure, majority leader Chuck Schumer warns ‘it will be open season’ on people’s freedoms

The Guardian - UK

Spain to ease abortion limits for over-16s and allow menstrual leave

Parental permission to end for terminations and up to five days’ leave a month for painful periods

The Guardian - UK

Spain introduces law to give people three days off a month for 'menstrual leave'

The move is part of a package covering the 'tampon tax' and access to period productions and abortion.

Daily Record

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Democrats see leaked Supreme Court ruling as potential game-changer

WASHINGTON — Democrats are hoping a renewed focus on abortion as a political issue may mobilize otherwise reluctant voters in November after a leaked draft showed the Supreme Court is on the precipice of reversing the legal precedent of Roe v. Wade.

Tribune News Service

Right-wing youth culture finds God

Nick Fuentes' racist "groyper" movement is building a coalition with far-right Catholics. They have a plan

Salon

Commentary: The pendulum is swinging back, reversing hard-won sexual freedoms and civil rights

The leaked Supreme Court opinion by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., which would overturn Roe v. Wade, marks a devastating setback for reproductive justice in the United States. It also highlights how bound up the right to abortion is with other fundamental sexual freedoms and civil rights. Whatever happens in…

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: As a lifelong abortion rights activist, I am terrified of our society moving backward

The now infamous Supreme Court draft opinion repealing Roe v. Wade is not just a shameful ransacking of a 50-year-old precedent, it is an epic assault on the fundamental right of women to participate as equals in American society.

Los Angeles Times

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Commentary: Conservative Christians will regret overturning Roe. They’re sacrificing religious liberty to do it

The imminent overturning of Roe v. Wade is a disaster for women. It is also a disaster for the Catholic Church, whose hierarchy in America has made opposition to abortion central to its mission.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: No coincidence in effects gun and abortion laws have on poor Black communities

Newly released statistics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention point to a sharp rise in 2020 gun homicides that disproportionately affected the nation’s poorest areas and Black communities — affirming what St. Louisans were able to see with their own eyes that year. It might also come as…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Commentary: Pregnancy is risky. Losing access to abortion puts women’s lives at stake

As the United States struggles with the imminent demise of Roe v. Wade, politicians and voters need to remember one thing ahead of the midterm elections: Abortion saves women’s lives.

Los Angeles Times

Overturning Roe could reverse economic gains

An end to Roe could set back the economy.

Axios

Noah Feldman: US justices are looking more like politicians

The Supreme Court is unraveling. The leak last week of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that would overturn the 1973 abortion-rights precedent Roe v. Wade is just part of it.

Tribune News Service

Abortion-rights activists are targeting Supreme Court justices' homes. That's fine by me

Before we delve into the ethics of peacefully protesting in front of a Supreme Court justice's home, I'd like to remind you about some of the havoc wrought by abortion foes after the court legalized abortion in 1973.

Los Angeles Times

COUNTERPOINT: Left’s reaction to potential Roe overruling shows authoritarian druthers

It has been just two weeks since Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked to Politico. However, the left is already in absolute meltdown mode, claiming the potential ruling could usher in a return to the Dark Ages, in which…

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POINT: Overturning Roe will lead to a human rights crisis for all Americans

If the Supreme Court follows through on its draft majority opinion that overturns Roe v. Wade, it will open the floodgates to extremist new laws and court rulings that could cost all Americans the right to make intimate decisions about their own lives — from the medications they take to…

Tribune News Service

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Now it's Democrats painting GOP as too extreme

In the 2020 election, Republicans enjoyed substantial success in their efforts to demonize Democrats by labeling many as socialists and assailing those seeking to revamp or defund local police departments.

Evening Standard

Democrats fail in plan to introduce federal abortion law

The vote comes amid fears the Supreme Court will reppeal women’s abortion rights

The Guardian - US

IVF treatment faces ‘clear and present danger’ from US anti-abortion effort

Warning from reproductive rights advocate comes as US states pass or debate legislation that would give full rights to embryos

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Women to be offered three days 'menstrual leave' each month in Spain

Government to follow Japan, South Korea and Zambia in giving time off to women suffering with serious symptoms

Tribune News Service

Gavin Newsom wants California to help make most abortions free — even for the uninsured

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is expanding his push to increase abortion care access — this time, by helping to fund the procedure for low- and middle-income people who don’t have health insurance.

Chicago Sun-Times

Protesters ‘promise to stay in the streets’ after failed Senate effort to codify abortion rights

Chicago protesters continue to demonstrate in the wake of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion potentially overturning Roe v. Wade.

Tribune News Service

Here’s what blue states have pledged with Roe v. Wade in flux

Democratic states are finding themselves in uncharted territory as they set up funds to support abortion access not only for their own residents, but for those traveling from states where the procedure could be banned.

Tribune News Service

Garland orders Supreme Court security amid abortion protests

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department will provide security services to the Supreme Court and its justices in the face of national protests against a pending decision to overturn abortion rights, a spokesman for Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

The Independent UK

Justices to meet for 1st time since leak of draft Roe ruling

The Supreme Court’s nine justices will gather in private Thursday for their first scheduled meeting since the leak of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v

Mic

What abortion doulas want you to know

With reproductive health care under attack, abortion doulas have signed up to shepherd patients through an increasingly stressful ordeal.

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