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‘Here again’: Abortion activists rally 50 years after Roe

Women's marches took on a different feel this year.

Politico

Call Jane stars Elizabeth Banks as a housewife driven to obtain an illegal abortion in 60s Chicago

Denied a legal abortion, Elizabeth Banks' character joins an activist group in the new film from Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy, which highlights the ongoing precarity of reproductive healthcare.

ABC News

It's All About the Jimmy Hats

Rethinking the constitutional defense of reproductive rights after Dobbs via the Ninth Amendment

Reason

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Court Adopts Narrow Approach to Pseudonymity in Title IX Wrongful-Discipline Cases

A federal judge suggested that plaintiffs can sue as John Does only to the extent that identifying them would also identify nonparties who want to remain anonymous (such as the students who accused the plaintiffs of sexual misconduct).

Reason

Plaintiff in Title IX Wrongful Discipline Case Against University May Depose His Accuser

From Judge Reed O'Connor's order today in Doe v. Texas Christian Univ. (N.D. Tex.): [Non-party Jane] Roe's earlier reports of sexual assault by Plaintiff John Doe prompted Defendant TCU's institution of Title IX disciplinary proceedings against him and, in turn, gave rise to this suit…. [Doe subpoenaed Roe] to appear…

Reason

The forgotten story of Jane Roe, who fought for and then against abortion rights

Norma McCorvey is the real name of the woman many Americans now know as the Roe in Roe v. Wade. Her story shows the ways class, religion and money shape abortion politics in the United States.

WEKU

Diddy faces lawsuit from former nanny, calls allegations a ‘meritless shakedown’

LOS ANGELES — Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing legal action from a former nanny who claims she was wrongfully terminated.

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Parents launch sexual assault lawsuit against school alleging custodian spanked 8-year-old girl

School district ‘more concerned about keeping its hallways clean and garbage bins empty than ensuring its students were protected,’ lawyer says

The Independent UK

Indiana GOP go off the rails on abortion

Republicans rejected putting abortion on a state ballot, because they know voters would reject the ban

Salon

Linda Coffee argued Roe v. Wade. Now, she’s watching its demise.

Coffee was just 30 when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with her argument that the constitutional right to privacy extended to abortion: “I thought, OK, well this is done now. I was thinking the [abortion] question was settled for as long as the country lasted.”

The Texas Tribune

‘They might have to give birth in chains’: Abortion access behind bars after the end of Roe v Wade

Abortion access in prisons was already ‘abysmal.’ The end of Roe v Wade made things even worse, Josh Marcus reports

The Independent UK

Roe’s Grassroots Beginnings

The landmark abortion case had its origins in campus activism at UT Austin, including journalists at a feminist newspaper called the Rag.

Texas Observer

At Dallas abortion rights protest, 10 Texans share their stories

DALLAS -- Nearly 50 years have passed since Jane Roe sued then-Dallas County Distrct Attorney Henry Wade for the right to have an abortion in Texas, forever making Dallas ground zero in the country’s ongoing fight about reproductive rights.

Tribune News Service

Understanding Roe v Wade and why it was overturned

The now-dead landmark ruling enshrined constitutional protections for abortion care

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How a New York attorney gave women a voice in the legal battle for abortion rights for the first time

In 1970, attorney Nancy Stearns allowed women to share their stories in the fight for abortion access in the courts for the first time. She speaks to Rachel Sharp about women losing their voices again in the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade and whether abortion rights would have…

Tribune News Service

Texas Supreme Court allows enforcement of 1925 abortion ban scrapped in Roe v. Wade

WASHINGTON – The Texas Supreme Court ordered late Friday that the state’s century-old abortion ban, struck down in Roe v. Wade in 1973, can be enforced immediately.

ABC News

The US faces a new era after the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade ruling. But will it mean a return to the past?

With the constitutional right to abortion gone, healthcare providers, clinics and millions of Americans are grappling with a new reality. But will it mimic the time before Roe v Wade?

Evening Standard

Anne McElvoy: Democrats must box smart if they are to turn the tide on Roe vs Wade

Any non-celibate woman in her fertile years knows the anxiety about an unexpected positive pregnancy test — from disquiet to shock and panic if the barriers to having and bringing up a child are forbidding. From the moment of a positive test, a woman’s options are changed.

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The Independent UK

Jane Roe’s daughter says she is ‘devastated’ by Supreme Court ruling which has undone her mother’s ‘sacrifice’

Melissa Mills’ mother Norma Corvey is the woman at the centre of the landmark 1973 ruling

The Independent UK

Understanding Roe v Wade and why it was overturned

The now-dead landmark ruling enshrined constitutional protections for abortion care

The Independent UK

What is Roe v Wade and why was it overturned?

The now-dead landmark ruling enshrined constitutional protections for abortion care

Daily Mirror

Pro-choice activists tear gassed as they breach Capitol building in abortion protest

Lawmakers in Arizona, one of eight states where abortion clinics stopped performing procedures after the court's decision, say they were effectively being held hostage inside

The Independent UK

What are UK abortion laws, and what is different in the US?

A Supreme Court ruling is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half of US states.

The Times of India

Explainer: US Supreme Court abolished half a century old abortion right; here’s what’s Roe vs Wade and what this will mean for abortion rights in the US

The US Supreme Court on Friday abolished a landmark case that was the basis of legal abortions in the states for nearly 50 years. Ruling in favor of a Mississippi abortion law, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. With this ruling, 50 years of reproductive rights in the…

ABC News

The Roe v Wade abortion case inspired Joshua Prager to find the real family at the centre of the legal battle

Journalist Jonathan Prager spent years investigating the real 'Roe' family, to learn what it was like to be a child at the centre of Roe v Wade, the landmark abortion legal battle.

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