PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill to enshrine abortion rights in France’s constitution, making it the only country to explicitly guarantee a woman’s right to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy. The historic move was proposed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to prevent the kind of rollback of abortion rights … Read more
French lawmakers are expected Monday to anchor the right to abortion in the country’s constitution, in a global first that has garnered overwhelming public support. Issued on: 04/03/2024 – 04:02 3 min A congress of both houses of parliament in Versailles starting at 3:30 pm (1430 GMT) should find the three-fifths majority needed for the … Read more
France moves to make abortion a constitutional right amid rollbacks in US and Europe POLITICO Europe France to enshrine abortion rights in constitution as a ‘guaranteed freedom’ FRANCE 24 English Why Macron hopes abortion rights are a political winner BBC.com French Senate votes to enshrine abortion in constitution, a world first The Washington Post French Senate votes to enshrine … Read more
French lawmakers first endorsed the move to enshrine a right to abortion in the constitution after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. ADVERTISEMENT France’s Senate on Wednesday voted in favour of legislation that would enshrine the right to have an abortion in the French Constitution. The Senators voted 267 in favour and 50 … Read more
Washington — The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will take up the Biden administration’s bid to maintain access to a widely used abortion pill, marking the first dispute involving abortion that the high court will hear since members of its conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Brought by a group of doctors and medical … Read more
Austin, Texas — A Texas woman who had sought a legal medical exemption for an abortion has left the state after the Texas Supreme Court paused a lower court decision that would allow her to have the procedure, lawyers for the Center for Reproductive Rights said Monday. State District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble last … Read more
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday night put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis, throwing into limbo an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S. The order by the all-Republican court came more … Read more
Published: 11/24/2023 10:01:08 AM Modified: 11/24/2023 10:00:13 AM BOSTON — Allowing people younger than 16 to receive abortion care without a parent or judge’s consent, regulating so-called crisis pregnancy centers and permitting later-term abortions in more settings are coming into focus as the next fronts for debate about reproductive rights in Massachusetts. Bay State lawmakers … Read more
It’s Election Day in Ohio and the issue of abortion is directly on the ballot. More than a year after the Dobbs decision, early exit polls show an Ohio electorate that is dissatisfied about the overturn of Roe v. Wade, including almost 4 in 10 who are angry about it. Women, Democrats, younger voters are … Read more
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Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday about whether the federal government can require Texas hospitals to perform life-saving abortions, despite the state’s near-total ban on the procedure. After the … Read more