Abortion is legal in Maryland, but voters will have the opportunity to enshrine the law in the state constitution in November. Maryland's existing law, enacted in 1991, safeguarded abortion rights in case the U.S. Supreme Court restricted abortion. In a 1992 referendum, 62% of voters affirme...
With the new laws, Colorado joins Illinois as a progressive peninsula offering reproductive rights to residents of conservative states on three sides. Illinois abortion clinics now serve people living in a 1,800-mile (2,900-kilometer) stretch of 11 Southern states that have largely banned abortion...
On April 25, 1967, Colorado was the first state to enact a modern abortion law. During the first 12 months' experience under the new law 407 therapeutic abortions were performed. Two hundred and ninety-one were performed for psychiatric reasons. These were followed in frequency by fetal ...
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Colorado voters haveshut down three ballot initiativessince 2008 that would have assigned certain legal rights associated with “personhood” to the unborn, as well asa 2020 initiative to ban abortion after 22 weeks. U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Colorado Springs Republican, recentlyproposed federal ...
During the late 1960s and 1970s, Colorado experienced various protest movements in Denver, including the civil rights movement and the Chicano Movement, which advocated for social, civil rights for Mexican-Americans. 1967 Colorado became the first state to relax abortion laws, thanks to Governor Jo...
the Civil Rights Act was signed into law. With this knowledge of the glacial pace of change, I suppose reluctantly that the recognition of the importance of the freedom of mind space and the necessity of knowledge acquisition won’t be a larger issue of societal imperative before 2065, when ...
it is a means of impeding speech againstabortion. The Court's confident assurance that the statute poses no special threat to First Amendment freedoms because it applies alike to "used car salesmen, animal rights activists, fundraisers, environmentalists, and missionaries" is a wonderful replication...
The session was marked by landmark passage of a law enshrining the right to abortion in state statute, another expanding pre-school education and another expediting constitutionally mandated tax refunds to residents this year instead of next. But the fentanyl effort and other legislation...
Washington —Abortion rights advocates in Arizona on Wednesday submitted more than double the signatures needed to place an initiative on the November ballot that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state's constitution. Organizers with Arizona for Abortion Access, the coalition behind the eff...