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After two decades of abortion decriminalisation across Australian states and territories, there has been a sudden surge of anti-abortion activity online, in the streets and in parliaments.

Former US supreme court justice nominated by George HW Bush who consistently voted with its liberal wing

WASHINGTON — The early American laws prohibiting abortion were adopted in the 19th century in an era when women could not vote or hold elective office.

The high court’s monumental ruling will have major impact on Texas, which has a trigger law banning abortions that goes into effect soon.

The abortion precedent has faced withering criticism, including damning appraisals by pro-choice legal scholars, for half a century.

“Here, sir, the people govern,” Alexander Hamilton said when explaining the republican form of government recently established in America. “Here, they act by their immediate representatives.” Most Americans agree, at least in theory, but theory is easy. It’s in practice, when this system does not deliver everything you want, that…

In the swirling days since what I suppose we should just call The Leak, a significant theme has been the argument that the Supreme Court has grown deeply politicized. But there never existed a golden age when the court was anything else.

Evidence is thin for Operation Rescue's claim — and the group's harassment has repeatedly gotten people killed

A leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision suggests the country’s highest court could be poised overturn Roe v