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...Then, we pass the mic to three people providing abortion services in three states that will face some of the biggest changes: Wisconsin, Alabama and Illinois....
...I currently live in the state of Alabama, but that’s a new place for me....
...With Europe facing a possible third wave of infections and public doubts about vaccine efficacy, commission president Ursula von der Leyen is under pressure from member states....
...The Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision guaranteed a fundamental right to choose to have an abortion....
...Kay Ivey, Alabama’s governor, has signed a bill into law that would ban most abortions in the state....
...But those laws were struck down by lower courts, citing the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade ruling that women have a constitutional right to end their pregnancies. And that was the end of it....
...“We dare defend our rights”, says the motto of Alabama, but it is the state’s incursion into women’s rights that has brought it to worldwide attention....
...Supporters of the restrictive laws are seeking to overturn Roe v Wade, emboldened by Mr Trump’s appointment of two conservative-leaning justices to the US Supreme Court....
...Who’s who in Richard Avedon’s ‘The Family’ First row (left to right): Richard Kleindienst, former US attorney-general, Washington, DC, July 29 1976; James Skelly Wright, circuit judge, US Court of Appeals...
...Alabama there is trying to roll that right back from 24 weeks to one week. Then we've got another five states trying to bring things back to six weeks....
...However, all of these locations are in states with currently low levels of COVID-19 cases, that are well away from major centres of infection....
...In recent years, states — including Iowa, Alabama and Texas — have passed laws that restrict access to abortion, with varying degrees of success....
...Among them, two names stand out — William Pryor, a US court of appeals judge from Alabama, and Thomas Hardiman, a US court of appeals judge in Pennsylvania, both of whom Mr Trump interviewed before choosing...
...The Supreme Court heard the claim under the auspices of the Topeka case for political reasons: Kansas is a border state and so clean of the associations of being northern or southern....
...“When you go back to the professional municipal bond market, we lived through Detroit. We lived through Jefferson County and Alabama....
...In 1971 — two years before the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision legalising abortion — the evangelical Southern Baptist Convention, the largest US Protestant denomination, endorsed abortion in cases of rape...
...This would leave space for other expected candidates including the centrist São Paulo state governor Geraldo Alckmin and former supreme court judge Joaquim Barbosa....
...Mr Sessions said he remained convinced that the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision enshrining abortion rights was incorrect....
...Florida, Georgia and Alabama are the only states where following a 2012 appeals court ruling, someone in Chapter 7 bankruptcy can void a second mortgage — such as a home-equity loan — when the value of the...
...When solicitor general Donald Verrilli came before the US Supreme Court to argue the Obama administration’s side in Shelby County v Holder in February, Chief Justice John Roberts peppered him with trivia...
...The $18.5bn restructuring, the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history, has chilled the market for state and municipal fundraising since the city’s initial filing in the middle of the year, coinciding...
...Detroit has added its name to a growing list of US cities that have filed for bankcruptcy, with debts of more than $18bn as a municipal fiscal crisis spreads from state to state....
...Stockton is a test case for cutting existing pensions and whether state laws protecting pensions will stand up in federal bankruptcy court....
...The court is also considering a challenge by an Alabama county to the Voting Rights Act, designed to stop states with a history of racism from discriminating against voters....
...Supreme Court decision that legalised abortion in 1973....
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