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Life after Roe v. Wade, what impact will it have on American society?

In this edition, uproar in the United States after a leaked Supreme Court draft ruling shows the country is set to end 50 years of a woman's right to have an abortion. Annette Young also talks to writer Molly Jong-Fast about what life in America would look like without Roe…

France 24

Pro-Life Libertarians Can Cautiously Cheer the End of Roe

For libertarians who see unborn babies as innocent rights-bearing individuals, reducing the number of lives ended by abortion brings us closer to our credo.

Reason

Emily Sheffield: Dark days ahead for American women if Joe Biden doesn’t step up on abortion

How many of you remember the explosive sexual assault allegations levelled against Justice Brett Kavanaugh by psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford, allegations he in turn vehemently denied? At the time America was gripped — as were we. It was 2018, MeToo was raging and Kavanaugh was Donald Trump’s ultra-conservative choice…

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How US policy on abortion affects women in Africa

Policies and decisions made in the United States echo around the world and often have widespread implications. Take sexual and reproductive health, for example. Decisions made in the US have caused, and could cause, severe damage to progress in access to these services in developing countries.

The Conversation

Digested week: bank holidays exist to remind me why schools exist

Arguments with my 14-year-old, bad dogs at polling stations, and Piers Morgan’s silent majority goes missing

The Guardian - UK

7 persistent claims about abortion, fact-checked

Several not-quite-right claims have continued to linger about abortion since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

WEKU

Ending Roe v Wade could badly backfire on Republicans during elections this year

The Democrats now have a fighting chance to maintain control of the Senate. Their odds of retaining and flipping seats have improved overnight

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First Thing: UN plans third evacuation from Azovstal steelworks in Ukraine

As a large-scale Russian propaganda campaign gets under way, fighting continues in the steel plant in Mariupol. Plus, Karine Jean-Pierre named new US press secretary

The Guardian - UK

RBG saw this coming: Roe's fatal flaw

The original Roe decision never even mentions women's equality. As Ginsburg saw, that was a critical mistake

Salon

Without Roe, data will become a company headache and a user nightmare

Personal information in the hands of tech companies is likely to become a legal target in a post-Roe world.

Axios

Will Bunch: The Supreme Court leak confirmed that this is no longer the America we grew up in

When the news dropped around 9 p.m. on Monday, one woman said she’d stomped around her house, cussing. Another said she cried. Only 20 hours after the unprecedented leak of a looming Supreme Court decision to undo nearly a half-century of abortion rights, they and more than 100 other people,…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Solomon Jones: The Supreme Court’s draft ruling on abortion invoked ‘state’s rights.’ Here’s why that’s troubling

The U.S. Supreme Court is on the cusp of striking down Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that guaranteed federal protections of abortion rights, and my mind is flooded with thoughts of how this happened and what it means.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial: Alito's draft ruling is so self-contradictory that it calls court's judgment into question

The Supreme Court draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade raises just as many arguments and counterarguments as the original ruling that Justice Samuel Alito excoriated in his opinion, leaked this week to Politico. Alito’s assertion that abortion rights don’t fall under the 14th Amendment, and that the Constitution makes no…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Anita Chabria: A Texas woman needed an abortion. Here's how far California went to help her

The first sign of Stephanie's pregnancy was nausea, as it so often is — that particular debilitating queasiness that knocked her off her feet, sometimes all day, days at a time.

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Tribune News Service

Editorial: Supreme Court leak raises divisive questions

The leak of a draft United States Supreme Court ruling written by Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which would overturn past court precedents in favor of leaving abortion laws to the states, has ignited intense political debate over the future of abortion laws and the…

Axios

Abortion providers plan for the end of Roe

Blue states are preparing for more demand.

WEKU

Roe established abortion rights. 20 years later, Casey paved the way for restrictions

The 5-4 decision of Planned Parenthood v. Casey upheld Roe in 1992 but paved the way for more restrictions on abortion access.

Salon

How Catholic Biden defends abortion

The president told reporters, “This is about a lot more than abortion"

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Miami Herald

Coming Supreme Court ruling on abortion raises stakes in Rubio-Demings Senate race

A likely imminent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade could galvanize voters on both sides of the abortion debate in Florida as Democrat Val Demings and Republican Marco Rubio draw sharp contrasts in their Senate race.

The Independent UK

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Los Angeles Times

Movie review: The tense French abortion drama ‘Happening’ is the movie you need to see right now

“I’ll manage.” We hear those words a lot from Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei), the quietly determined 23-year-old who grounds every scene of the tense, harrowing French drama “Happening.” She’s used to taking care of herself, whether she’s in a literature class, where she dissects a poem with ease, or on a…

Los Angeles Times

How French drama 'Happening' centers the dangerous stakes of illegal abortion

The new film "Happening" is set in 1963 and yet it suddenly feels like a possible window into the future.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Why we need term limits for Supreme Court justices

The Supreme Court's now-confirmed intention of overturning the half-century-old protection for abortion rights in Roe v. Wade is energizing the debate over how to rein in the court's extreme conservative slant.

Tribune News Service

Ramesh Ponnuru: What’s not going to happen after Roe falls

Since someone leaked a draft of the Supreme Court’s opinion in this year’s big abortion case, two questions have emerged about the scope of conservative policy goals. Will Republicans try to ban abortion by federal statute if Roe v. Wade is overruled, or leave the issue to the states? And…

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: Poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court gives Democrats a leg up in elections

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The conservative Supreme Court's pending decision to roll back national abortion rights is sure to hurt Republican candidates, even in California where women won't be affected.

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