Every Republican candidate for Attorney General in Minnesota has pledged to attack access to abortion. While already deeply troubling, their anti-choice extremism merits further scrutiny following last night’s news that the Supreme Court is set to overrule Roe v. Wade. Here’s what ...
South Dakotaoutlawsabortion as a felony crime except to save the life of the mother. But a ballot measure seeks to add abortion rights to the state constitution — one of nine states that will vote on similar measures in November. The abortion rights side has prevailed in all seven states w...
Yet the fate of reproductive rights in the Sun Belt is far from sealed. Abortion opponents have vowed to challenge the initiative in state court, and if they aren’t successful there in striking it down, push for another ballot measure next cycle to overtur...
Charlie Baker signed an executive order to "further preserve" abortion rights in Massachusetts and protect "reproductive health care providers who serve out of state residents." MichiganA pre-Roe v. Wade law bans abortions, but a judge ruled in May the state government cannot enforce the law ...
In the United States, a key area where this issue has been litigated has been in the context of abortion. This context is of significance in and of itself as well as for demonstrating how the legal system approaches the rights of adolescents. As a result, Bellotti v. Baird (1979), the...
How Minnesota Became an Island of Abortion Rights in the MidwestFor all the trouble they had completing their work this year,Minnesota legislators didn't get...Grow, Doug
They determined that a group of anti-abortion rights doctors and medical associations who brought the lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration did not have the legal right to do so. In finding they lacked legal standing, the Supreme Court did not address whether the FDA acted lawfully ...
Controversy often surrounds efforts to recognize adolescents’ rights, partly because adolescents are deemed as needing parental guidance and as lacking the capacity to make sound decisions. These controversies arose most acutely in efforts to recognize adolescents’ right to control their abortion decisions...
Abortion rights activists across the country are sending a clear message after theoverturn of Roe v. Wade: They’re not backing down. From Minnesota to California to Florida,more than a dozen protests are planned Mondayto denounce the Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the nearly 50-year-...
Gov. Tim Walz has enshrined the right to abortion and other reproductive health care into Minnesota statutes.