Ahead of the election, a reproductive health law scholar lays out the broad strokes of what both Harris and Trump have done regarding abortion policy while in office.
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Republicans have long focused on freedom as an election issue. Kamala Harris appears to be shifting the Democrats’ strategy to offer a rival view of what freedom means.
Under current laws in most states and territories, the life of an unborn child is legally indistinguishable from that of the mother.
Behaviour to ‘promote’ or prevent pregnancy can intersect with domestic, family and sexual violence. It weaponises someone’s reproductive capacity to control them.
Silent prayer may seem benign, even peaceful, but when anti-abortion protestors pray silently outside abortion clinics, it can be experienced as intimidation and coercion by service users.
Did we need another Alien film? I suspect not, or at least, not this one.
The abortion drug they’re talking about is mifepristone, otherwise known as RU486. It has been used in Australia since 2012, opening access to women who couldn’t previously access abortions.
Harris is assertive and confident on the issue, while Trump and his running mate seem to be at odds over strategy.
The Supreme Court conceded that it should not have taken up the case to begin with.
Many Poles were outraged by abortion restrictions put in place during the previous government. That doesn’t mean they agree on the path forward.
In Mexico, more states are legalizing abortion at the same time US states like Florida are imposing more restrictions.
Abortions happened in Arizona, despite a near-complete abortion ban enacted in 1864. But people also faced penalties for them, including a female doctor who went to prison.
Laws such as Alabama’s controversial ruling that gives personhood rights to frozen embryos will have ripple effects on how advance directives are interpreted by doctors and the courts.
Two legal scholars who study abortion-related laws explain what happened at the Supreme Court in a case that could make it harder to get an abortion.
The increasing misogyny and oppression against women is reflected in this new horror, elevating it to something more than a mere nunsploitation movie.
I’m a scholar, not an activist or an advocate. But now one of the most intimate, personal events of our lives had been turned into a political event by the state’s highest court.
Environmental policymakers and scholars must listen to sub-Saharan Africans’ voices and recognize the importance of population for achieving sustainable development goals.
Democrats now have an issue to mobilise voters. For Republicans, however, it’s more complicated.
The new constitutional amendment to protect the right to abortion in Ohio − as well as other wins for Democrats − shows the importance of ballot initiatives and focusing on abortion in elections.
An analysis of anti-abortion rights groups in the US shows that while some specifically turn to Christianity to explain their positions, others are looking at broader, human rights arguments.
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Professor of Law, George Washington University
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Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Human Sciences and Culture, Flinders University
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Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, James Cook University
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Professor of Health Law and Professor of Law, Boston University
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