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Republicans are lying to you about Roe

GOP talking points include calling forced childbirth "compassion" and concealing plans for a national abortion ban

Salon

This attack on women’s reproductive rights must be resisted

Letters: Women die when access to contraception and safe abortion is denied, says Dr Tricia Cresswell, while Karin Bjornson tells of her own experience of termination. Plus letters from Monica Threlfall, Mary Pimm and Roger Munday

The Guardian - UK

Rhode Island Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Rhode Island's Abortion Rights Statute

From Wednesday's decision of the Rhode Island Supreme Court in Benson v. McKee (opinion by Justice Maureen McKenna Goldberg, joined by Chief Justice Paul Suttell and Justice William Robinson; Justices Erin Lynch Prata and Melissa Long did not participate): In 2019 the General Assembly enacted the Reproductive Privacy Act (the…

Reason

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Gloria Steinem's calls to protect bodily autonomy live on as Roe faces reversal

Activist Gloria Steinem has fought for women's rights for decades. She has no plans to stop even as the Supreme Court is poised to reverse Roe v. Wade.

WEKU

Tesla covers travel costs for workers seeking abortions

Tesla is covering travel costs for employees seeking abortions outside their home state

The Independent UK

Motherhood deferred: US median age for giving birth hits 30

Over the past three decades, birthrates have declined for women in their 20s and jumped for women in their late 30s and early 40s

The Independent UK

In Chicago, advocates and providers brace for influx of patients if abortion rights are rolled back

Changes in abortion rights in neighboring states could mean an additional 20,000 to 30,000 people per year will come to Illinois for abortions, said Jennifer Welch, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois.

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Calif. state leaders promise haven for women seeking abortions

SAN DIEGO — California will take a national role in abortion access in the event that the landmark ruling Roe v. Wade is overturned, state and local leaders said at a roundtable discussion Thursday.

Tribune News Service

When Ted Kennedy Was Pro-Life and Ronald Reagan Was Expanding Abortion Access

The forgotten abortion politics of the pre-Roe era

Reason

Roe v Wade to be overturned? What this would mean for reproductive rights around the world

Reproductive rights have been an urgent topic of discussion around the world in recent days, following the leak of a draft opinion of the US supreme court, written by Justice Samuel Alito, in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. If enacted by the court, this opinion would…

The Conversation

What is Roe v Wade and did it get overturned?

Ruling enshrined women’s right to terminate a pregnancy

The Independent UK

Ending Roe Threatens More Than Abortion Rights

Plus: Lawsuit against Twitter can move forward, antitrust bills targeting Big Tech falter, and more...

Reason

US abortion law decision brings attention to rights of women in Africa

A leaked draft of a majority opinion of the US Supreme Court has revealed the court’s leaning towards undoing its 1973 landmark ruling (Roe v Wade) which gave women in the US a constitutional right to abortion. The leaked document is not the court’s final decision – this is expected…

The Conversation

Abortion pill startup to seek new VC funds

Over half of U.S. abortions are now done via medication.

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Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate

A 23-year-old literature student discovers she's pregnant after a fling. This movie, based on Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, traces her desperate attempt to get an abortion in 1963 France.

Axios

Survey: Over 60% of adults say most abortions should be legal in U.S.

The poll was conducted before the leak of the draft opinion showing the Supreme Court might overturn Roe v. Wade.

Salon

Will Democrats waste this moment?

The GOP is so outside of the mainstream that Democrats have an opportunity to save themselves before the midterms

Daily Mirror

'Making abortion illegal poses a danger to women as they will turn to unsafe solutions'

Tanya Gold says that where abortion is forbidden, terrible things happen. In south America, raped pubescent girls die in childbirth. Abortion could become illegal in more than 20 US states

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The Guardian - US

Texas attorney general says state bar suing him over bid to overturn 2020 election – as it happened

State bar of Texas has been investigating complaints over Ken Paxton’s petitioning of the US supreme court to block Joe Biden’s victory

Al Jazeera

Minnesota’s abortion clinics brace for influx in wake of Roe leak

If Roe v Wade falls, Minnesota will be surrounded by states where abortion will likely become illegal.

France 24

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…

Reason

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.

Evening Standard

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…

The Conversation

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 Guardian - UK

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

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