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A year after victory in Dobbs decision, anti-abortion activists still in fight mode

The Supreme Court delivered a historic victory to the anti-abortion movement. But many still feel their work is far from complete, and are seeking new strategies to stop abortion in all 50 states.

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Ohio voters are likely to decide the future of abortion rights

Abortion rights groups collected tens of thousands of signatures to put the issue on ballots this fall

The Independent UK

Man gets life sentence for raping girl, nine, forced to leave Ohio for abortion

Gerson Fuentes found guilty in case that dominated headlines when girl had to travel to Indiana for procedure banned in Ohio

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Georgia clinics see nearly as many patients as before stricter abortion law

ATLANTA — Despite a sharp drop-off in the number of abortions being performed since Georgia’s restrictive law took effect a year ago, business at the Feminist Women’s Health Center has remained steady.

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Jackie Calmes: The Supreme Court's just-ended term contained some surprising gifts for Democrats

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. The same lopsidedly right-wing Supreme Court that since June 2022 has overturned longtime precedents to eliminate a federal abortion right, gun controls, clean water safeguards and now affirmative action has also, surprisingly, ruled twice lately to bolster…

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Carl P. Leubsdorf: Dangerous, mistaken GOP criticisms of Biden

Despite differences on abortion and Ukraine, most members of the large Republican presidential field have generally followed former President Donald Trump’s lead in roundly condemning President Joe Biden.

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Kingmaker California? US House control could hinge on district battles in famously liberal state

California is again emerging as a critical battleground in the fight to control the U.S. House

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Abortion numbers in Indiana drop amid ‘fear and uncertainty’ of possible state ban

It’s a seismic shift from last year, when the number of abortions performed in Indiana increased by 22 per cent

The Independent UK

US man guilty of raping 9-year-old in Ohio gets life sentence

The victim had to travel outside her state to get legal abortion after Supreme Court overturned right to the procedure.

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Man sentenced to life in prison for rape of 10-year-old girl in Ohio abortion case that drew national attention

Gerson Fuentes will serve at least 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to rape in a case that right-wing pundits falsely dismissed as a hoax in the aftermath of Roe v Wade

The Independent UK

Iowa's Republican governor calls a special legislative session to revive abortion restrictions

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has called a special legislative session so lawmakers can enact new abortion restrictions

The Independent UK

Ohio could be the fourth state to vote on a state constitutional right to abortion after campaign files signatures for Nov. 2023 ballot

Ohio could be the fourth state, following California, Michigan, and Vermont in 2022, to establish an explicit state constitutional right to abortion. On July 5, the campaign Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom submitted more than 710,131 signatures for a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment to provide that “every individual has a right to…

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Man jailed for life for raping girl, 10, who was forced to travel for abortion

The man who raped a 10-year-old Ohio girl and forced her to travel out of state for an abortion was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years

Daily Mirror

Indiana abortions drop sharply ahead of state ban possibly taking effect, state reports show

The number of abortions being performed in Indiana has dropped steeply even before a court ruling that has a Republican-backed abortion ban set to potentially take effect in the coming weeks

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GOP fears abortion may cost it majority

Republican strategists worry right-wing lawmakers are going to sabotage the party's 2024 chances

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Ohio abortion rights backers submit nearly double needed signatures for fall ballot measure

Groups hoping to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s constitution have delivered nearly double the number of signatures needed to place an amendment on the fall statewide ballot

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Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show

In 2015, Democratic Elk Grove Assemblyman Jim Cooper voted for Senate Bill 34, which restricted law enforcement from sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state authorities. In 2023, now-Sacramento County Sheriff Cooper appears to be doing just that.

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Danny Westneat: In the Washington v. Idaho abortion wars, data shows Idaho is losing

SEATTLE — Now that a year has passed since women lost the right to abortion, we can assess how our neighbor Idaho's near-total ban on it is faring.

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How NHS rescued Britain's health after years of home surgery and backstreet abortions

Early beneficiaries of our National Health Service recall their marvel at modern medicine - and how Britain was saved from health poverty by the revolutionary concept

France 24

Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux on gender and social class

For decades, Annie Ernaux has written fearlessly about sex, abortion and illness – laying bare herself and society. Her deeply intimate and political work earned the French writer the Nobel Prize for literature last October. Ernaux spoke to FRANCE 24's Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Sicily, where…

The Guardian - US

‘You’re able to vote now’: Minnesota Democrats pass raft of progressive reforms

The state was one of a few to secure a Democratic trifecta in 2022, and since then has passed abortion rights along with voting rights and democracy reform legislation

WEKU

In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths

The state's abortion bans make no exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies. Two women had devastating pregnancy diagnoses — one could leave the state for an abortion, and the other could not.

WEKU

Abortion access could continue to change in year 2 after the overturn of Roe v. Wade

It's already harder to get an abortion in many places and access is likely to be limited more with the passage of new laws.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: A declaration of non-independence — for women

If men could get pregnant, the saying goes, the Declaration of Independence might well have declared that all men are endowed with the right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and a safe abortion. A colleague once suggested to me that such phrasing wouldn’t have been necessary. It would…

The Independent UK

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