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The new forced pregnancy law, which takes immediate effect, prohibits abortion care in nearly all cases

The state has now adopted one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country, with slim exceptions up to six weeks' gestation in cases of rape, incest or medical emergency.

If Thomas doesn’t show up to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his ties to the Republican billionaire Crow, make the declination part of the rapidly growing record against the Supreme Court justice.

Lower courts had issued restrictions on access to the abortion pill, used in about half of all US abortions.

The five-day administrative stay from Justice Samuel Alito gives the Supreme Court time to consider the case next week.

As of April 1, 2023 all residents of British Columbia gained access to free prescription contraception. This includes the birth control pill, injections and implants, IUDs and emergency contraception known as Plan B or the “morning after” pill.

According to ProPublica, Thomas took undisclosed globe-trotting luxury trips, hosted or paid for by a big-time Republican donor. The revelations about Thomas add to the court’s substantial credibility woes.

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for decades accepted luxury trips from a Dallas businessman without publicly disclosing them despite a federal law requiring disclosure of most gifts, a media report said on Thursday, prompting Senate Democrats to call for an investigation.

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Florida’s threshold for the death penalty could soon be the lowest in the nation, with the Florida Senate on Thursday passing a priority bill of Gov. Ron DeSantis to require the vote of only eight jurors out of 12 in order to implement capital punishment.

The law of unintended consequences is never as powerful as when those consequences originate from a hasty, ill-considered action.