Courtney AndrewsInstitute for Human Rights (IHR) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Anthropology Department at the University of AlabamaRoutledgeAnthropology Now
The Georgia law recognises afetusas a person, which means it could be considered murder. However, it leaves open the question of who would be penalised for an abortion – the person ending their pregnancy or the doctor performing one. In Georgia, the penalty for murder is life...
the bill into law, as expected, it would likely pose a direct challenge to roe v. wade . de-facto abortion bans have taken hold in multiple states in recent months, but this particularly aggressive and particularly cruel measure gives a clear preview of what the anti-abortion movement w...
"What you are seeing is people wanting to have a test case on what are the limits of (the current abortion laws) in front of the Supreme Court," Republican strategist and TV news personality Ford O'Connell told Xinhua. West said: "The new law gives the U.S. Supreme Court the opportun...
New York Doctor Is Fined in Texas, Charged in Louisiana Over Abortion Pills in Tests of Shield Laws A New York doctor’s alleged decision to send abortion pills to patients in Texas and Louisiana has pitted the Empire State’s shield law against the two conservativ...
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Directed by British-born filmmaker Tony Kaye, the production depicts the heated ongoing abortion debate in America, and features graphic footage of actual medical procedures. Presenting people on both pro-choice and pro-life sides of the issue, the documentary includes interviews with philosopher and...
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a case on a 2015 Alabama abortion law that bans a common form of the procedure during the second trimester of pregnancy. Alabama had sought to overturn lower court rulings that struck down the law, but the justices rejected that bid in their ...
in Alabama a health care directive permits the agent to make all decisions the person who made the document could make but does not include psychosurgery, sterilization, abortion when not necessary to preserve the life of the principal, or involuntary hospitalization. Further, the advance directive...
President Trump has distanced himself from Alabama's strict new abortion law, saying there should be exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That puts Mr. Trump at odds with some Republicans, including the state's governor. Ed O