THE CONVERSATION — Following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizationoverturning half a century of abortion rights under Roe v. Wade, nearly two-thirds of Americans want fundamental court reform, specifically term limits for Supreme Court justices. Indeed, on July 25, 2022, Democrats introduced a bill that would allow a new justice to take the bench […]
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Trying to change opinions about abortion, one door at a time
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England staff and volunteers spend a day taking the pulse, and trying to start conversations, with residents in Topsham.
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Overturning Roe v. Wade isn’t the end for abortion opponents
Anti-abortion groups are looking to the courts, lawmakers and elections to facilitate more abortion restrictions and bans after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June left the issue up to states.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Americans dismayed at end of Roe are less certain they will vote, poll finds
Fully 58% of the country supports a federal law establishing the right to an abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb, the standard the Supreme Court enshrined for nearly 50 years and overturned last month.
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Justice Alito dismisses foreign criticism of Supreme Court’s abortion ruling
Justice Samuel Alito for the first time publicly spoke about the decision he authored reversing the constitutional right to abortion.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: My abortions were safe, legal and pain-free. Everyone deserves that right.
The majority of Americans know it is fundamentally wrong to force someone into motherhood.
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St. Louis to help women get out-of-state abortions, despite state ban
The give-and-take is emblematic of city versus state battles playing out across the U.S. since June.
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Data privacy and abortion limits set to collide post-Roe
Privacy advocates sounded alarms that women should be vigilant in the types of data and content they share with fertility and health apps and through social media.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Men and women alike should fear the criminalization of abortion
All citizens have a responsibility to ensure that our laws do not permit third parties to control our bodies.
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Abortion at sea? Advocates in the U.S. get creative to protect access
To solve the problem of abortion access, Meg Autry is seeking inspiration from an unlikely source: riverboat casinos. As access to abortion deteriorated in the past year, Autry – an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of California San Francisco – had been toying with a years-old idea to reach areas where such medical services were already […]