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The Florida Supreme Court is not asking for a fetus to be entitled to a right under the state constitution or abortion law, a professor said. “We were going to go to sympathetic judges like those on the Florida Supreme Court…and ask if it was weird that a fetus was not entitled to a right under the state constitution or abortion law,” she added.
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The Alabama court ruled in favor of the ‘children’ rule when it came to abortion
The US Supreme Court has upheld the right of foetuses to have live birth in a case that could lead to restrictions on abortion. The court ruled that foetuses are “persons” under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore have the right to “unborn life”. The lawsuit was filed by an Alabama IVF centre against the state’s laws.
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The Alabama court ruled that embryos are ‘children’
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that women in the US’ largest state can’t be prosecuted for attempting to get pregnant by taking abortion-causing drugs. Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker wrote that destroying life would “incur the wrath of a holy God”. Nine court justices disagreed, stating that it would “incur the wrath of a holy God”.
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Women in the US are stockingpiling Abortion pills
The US Capitol has a protected look at the threats to abortion access and the legalization of a Supreme Court decision, new research shows. Requests for advance provision of abortion pills spiked at times and in locations where patients appeared to perceive threats to abortion access, Aid Access said. This comes as the Supreme Court is expected to decide on that case next year.
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Women in the US are taking their abortion pills
demand for abortion pills made by women who weren’t pregnant spiked during events when reproductive health care access appeared under threat, according to a study conducted by the US Supreme Court. This comes as the court hears a case challenging access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs typically used in medication abortion. If the court sides with anti-abortion activists, medication abortion access may be in jeopardy.
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The US Supreme Court is expected to decide the fate of abortion drugs
A US court ruled that women with life-threatening pregnancies in Texas who don’t get appropriate care could sue their doctors for malpractice under a state abortion law. The law was passed to protect the public from malpractice under which anyone can be sued for helping someone get an abortion. The court also refused to intervene in a lawsuit by a woman who got an abortion.
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The rights of abortion won big in the elections
Kentucky Democrat Andy Beshear has won re-election as governor after facing a challenge from the state’s Republican Attorney General, Daniel Cameron, who opposed abortion rights and has defended Kentucky’s strict abortion laws in court. Notably, this is the second general election in a row that the issue of abortion rights appeared to be a winning issue.
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The Supreme Court case regarding gun control has been up for a month
Voters in US’ Ohio state are voting on a proposed constitutional amendment that would enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution. If voters approve the measure, Ohio will be the seventh state to pass abortion rights since the Supreme Court’s decision last year. The amendment comes after the Supreme Court ruled last year that states have the power to ban abortions.
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There has been a rise in high-risk patients going to Illinois hospitals
Texas Supreme Court has allowed the state’s abortion laws to go back into effect after a district judge’s ruling that the laws were unconstitutional. The judge had ordered the state to stop enforcement of the laws when doctors treat patients with serious pregnancies-ending problems. The state had appealed the judge’s ruling, which was upheld by the US Supreme Court.
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One Texas doctor considers abortion bans to be personal and professional
Doctors in Texas, the US’ second-largest state, have said that the state’s abortion bans are unclear with pregnant fetuses and brain complications. Austin Dennard, an OB-GYN, said that doctors in Texas have to choose between intervening early with the risk they could be charged for violating the abortion ban and delaying care, with the risk of their patient suing them for malpractice.
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