Future of abortion in Arizona unresolved as issue goes to state judges
The question of whether some or all abortions are currently legal in Arizona -- and for how long -- remains unresolved as the issue goes to judges here.
High court: Arizona can enforce genetic issue abortion ban
PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed enforcement of a 2021 Arizona law that lets prosecutors bring felony charges against doctors who knowingly terminate pregnancies solely because the fetuses have a genetic abnormality such as Down syndrome.
Arizona says "personhood" abortion law can't lead to charges
PHOENIX (AP) — An attorney with the Arizona attorney general's office told a judge Friday that a 2021 state “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children can't be used to bring criminal charges against abortion providers.
US Capitol statues will honor Justices O'Connor and Ginsburg
The first and second female justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will have statues erected in their honor at the U.S. Capitol as a result of a bill signed into law last week by President Joe Biden.
U.S. Eyes Emergency Contraception Grants if Top Court Cuts Abortion Rights
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Louisiana Lawmakers Withdraw Bill Declaring Abortion Homicide
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Blocked Senate bill would make Roe v. Wade law, expand it
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats’ abortion legislation is “very simple," as it would enshrine into federal law the landmark 1973 Roe v.
Biden Considers Executive Orders, New Funds for Abortion
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Anti-Criminalization: Criminalization happens on the ground, not in the legislature
I attended Harm Reduction Conference for the first time this year, and it was also the first year this conference had the “sex worker track,” a series of workshops and presentations thr…
EXPLAINER: Why Bill Cosby's conviction was overturned
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction was thrown out Wednesday by Pennsylvania's highest court in a ruling that swiftly freed the actor from prison more than three years after he was found guilty of drugging and molesting Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion.
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#MeToo Is A Crucial Moment to Revisit the History of Indian Feminism – Centre tricontinental
Feminism in India is newly relevant. The past month has seen an explosion of online testimony to sexual harassment, in a watershed moment in India's #MeToo movement. The beginnings of the latter…
Harvey Weinstein to be extradited to California to face sexual assault trial, judge rules
The former movie mogul and convicted rapist, now serving time in a New York prison, has been charged with 11 counts of sexual assault in California involving five women.
What makes a hashtag like #metoo or #myNYPD go viral?
Individuals who have been victims of oppression or abuse have found hastags to be an effective way to increase the scope and effect of their activism. Northeastern researchers Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles have created an interdisciplinary project that studies and explains how hashtags acquire their followings.
‘It was bigger than Cosby’: W Kamau Bell on reckoning with an icon’s fall
In the docuseries We Need to Talk About Cosby, the comic and TV host examines how a once-loved comedy star fell from grace, and the system that supported him
Legal hurdles for today's sexual assault victims took shape in Medieval England | CBC Radio
Sexual assault victims in Medieval England faced some of the same types of challenges as they would today, says a researcher who studied 28 rape trials from 800 years ago.
Maricopa County's Law Library Resource Center helps victims of domestic violence
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the Judicial Branch of Arizona in Maricopa County is assisting victims through its four Law Library Resource Center locations.