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14 votes
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Near-total abortion ban takes effect in Poland amid protests
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The rise and fall of Roe v. Wade
Part 1 (55 minutes): The hosts take on one of the Supreme Court’s most famous decisions, Roe v. Wade. In this first episode of a two-part series, they look at the legal and factual origins of Roe...
Part 1 (55 minutes):
The hosts take on one of the Supreme Court’s most famous decisions, Roe v. Wade. In this first episode of a two-part series, they look at the legal and factual origins of Roe v. Wade. They also discuss how Roe was weaponized by the conservative legal movement to rally against an interpretation of the Constitution that allows for flexibility in favor of a far more rigid approach.
Part 2 (61 minutes):
In the second part of a two-episode series on abortion rights, the hosts discuss Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1992 case in which the Supreme Court made it easier for states to restrict abortion access so long as abortion regulations don’t create an “undue burden.” The vague standard set lawmakers on a new path of attacking abortion access and fueled anti-abortion groups’ efforts to spread stigma and misinformation, setting up Roe v. Wade for a death by a thousand cuts.
(it's impossible to link to podcasts in a simple or easy way...if anyone has a better way of doing this I'm all ears...)
5-4 (pronounced "five to four", as in the vote total of a closely-divided court case from 9 justices) is one of my favorite podcasts. It's lawyers dissecting Supreme Court cases in a way that is very understandable to non-lawyers, from an explicitly and unabashedly left-wing perspective.
This is an extremely informative primer on the entire arc of abortion rights in the US, from the actual case everyone has heard of (Roe v Wade in the 1970s) to the case in the 1990s that actually superseded Roe and a case from last year that was seen as a victory because it upheld a previous case but it also contained a poison pill that significantly weakened that precedent.
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In historic decision, Argentina legalizes first trimester abortion outside rape and threat to the mother's life
14 votes -
A look at the future of abortion from Colorado
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Polish government delays abortion ban after two weeks of protests across the country
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What happens to abortion access in the US if Roe v. Wade is overturned?
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Whistleblower complaint alleges mass hysterectomies at ICE detention center
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Roe of “Roe v. Wade” says Christian right paid her to be anti-choice mouthpiece
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Two nurses denied jobs as midwives in Sweden because of their refusal to perform abortions have lost their legal action against Sweden at the ECHR
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Over the past year, 34-year-old pastor Mark Lee Dickson has convinced twelve towns in Texas to pass ordinances banning abortion. For women in those towns, fear and confusion reigns.
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The abortion war goes local as ACLU lawsuit seeks to thwart town’s ban
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Why IVF has divided France: The country is forever caught between tradition and innovation, universalism and individual rights
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How health officials in pro-life states are quietly dismantling abortion access
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The subtle ways cities are restricting abortion access
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Ten years after abortion doctor's brutal murder, one woman carries the fight for reproductive rights
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Abortion clinics reported a surge in trespassing, vandalism and a historic high of picketing
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Our fury over abortion was dismissed for decades as hysterical
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Defend Your Clinics: It’s time for an abortion rights movement that’s not directed from the top-down. Clinic defense is a crucial part of that mass, democratic, and militant movement.
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Sex strikes have a long and controversial history as a tool of women's protest
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The logic of Alabama’s abortion law should permit you to claim a fetus on your taxes and collect insurance if you miscarry
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The fringe rightwing group changing the UN agenda on abortion rights
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A bill banning most abortions becomes law in Ohio
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I'm a Christian doctor and I help women have abortions. Here's how I reconcile that.
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Trump Administration blocks US funds for Planned Parenthood and others over abortion referrals
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FBI warned law enforcement agencies of threat posed by non-existent 'pro-choice extremists'
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I've been an ‘abortion doula’ 2,000 times
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The fake abortion clinics of America: Misconception
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Abortion laws: Australian High Court prepares to hear challenge to picketing ban
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The future abortionists of America
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Insurers can send patients to religious hospitals that restrict reproductive care
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Susan Collins, pivotal US moderate, says ‘hostility’ to Roe would sway her vote
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Abortion: Sanctity of Human Life and the Rights of (wo)Man
Yesterday, Ireland passed a referendum that will repeal a constitutional amendment that banned abortions. The government of Ireland will now have the explicit authority (as soon as the results are...
Yesterday, Ireland passed a referendum that will repeal a constitutional amendment that banned abortions. The government of Ireland will now have the explicit authority (as soon as the results are certified) to legislate matters of abortion directly. This seems likely to lead to a substantially less restrictive stance toward abortion in one of the most restrictive member nations of the EU. It would still likely end up being slightly more restrictive law than in the United States.
Ireland's history regarding abortion's legality is explicitly tied as a counter-reaction to Roe V. Wade, the American supreme court case that found abortion legal until the third trimester under a rights-balancing test under the 9th and 14th amendments (which--implicitly--enshrines a right to privacy and--explicitly--expands that right to the state level, respectively). While this balancing test was later changed to a standard requiring "fetal viability," states and activists through the United States organized against the Supreme Court's decision to create new limitations on abortion.
So today, I'm seeking to sidestep some of that history to wrestle with the core underlying balancing test Roe v Wade and other similar legal frameworks have tried to answer: when is a pregnant woman's rights more or less important than the life of the living being growing inside of her? In what circumstances (if any) should a woman be allowed to choose to end her pregnancy?
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Ireland ends abortion ban as 'quiet revolution' transforms country
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Ireland’s abortion vote becomes a test for Facebook and Google
5 votes