lawCanadasociology of lawgenderThis article explores the relationship of feminism, the state, and the law with specific reference to abortion legislation in Canada. It is inspired in part byGavigan, Shelley A. MSocial ence Electronic Publishing...
Siblings are free to allocate inheritance money in virtually any way they agree to. The question is whether that agreement is legally enforceable if a sibling does not live up to the agreement. This type of agreement is governed bycontract law. A contract is an agreement that the law will e...
Precious Life Opposes Amnesty's Push For Abortion In Northern Ireland In the West, women's safe access to abortion services is central to the debate around reproductive freedom. In China, easy access to abortion arrived hand-in-hand with the one-child policy in 1979 as part of the Party-st...
The justices will first have to consider a procedural issue — whether the doctors and their associations have legal standing to challenge the FDA's efforts in federal court — before deciding whether the FDA's changes complied with the law. Hanging in the balance is the availability of the pi...
What is Pennsylvania’s abortion law? Pregnancies can be ended in the commonwealth up to 24 weeks gestation, a deadline tied to the concept ofviabilitythat was introduced in 1973’sRoe v. Wade. Abortions can be performed after that cutoff if a pregnant person’s life or health is in dange...
On Saturday Republican voters in South Carolina will participate in what could be a nomination-defining matchup between their former governor and the former president. SEE: Did Joe Biden Drop Out: Who Is Running for President in 2024?The only remaining serious challenger to GOP front-runner Donald...
The Arizona Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in giving the go-ahead to enforce an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions.
Democratic leaders in the state Legislature have echoed Newsom and Bonta. "California has come too far and accomplished too much to simply surrender and accept his dystopian vision for America," Senate President Pro-Tempore Mike McGuire (D-North Coast) said in a statement. "This is why we...
What is Roe v. Wade? According toCornell Law School's Legal Information Institute, the case that led to theRoe v. Waderuling involved a pregnant single woman, named then only asJane Roe, who brought a class-action lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of criminal abortion laws in Texas...
After Trump’s ambiguity about abortion during his campaign, "there’s still a lot we don’t know about what policy is going to look like," said Mary Ruth Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law. That approach may be reveale...