US braces for potential Supreme Court ruling ending longstanding abortion rights

Key Factors

• How the ‘pro-life’ motion killed Roe V Wade
• Democrats urge Google to cease steering abortion sufferers to ‘faux clinics’ in search outcomes
• The lady who helped open of the nation’s first abortion clinics discusses the ‘struggle’ to save lots of girls’s proper to decide on

How Deliberate Parenthood goals to battle for abortion rights with the overturn of Roe V Wade looming

00:00 , Graig Graziosi

Deliberate Parethood, which has been on the forefront of offering abortion entry to girls for greater than a century, is planning to maintain preventing for girls’s reporductive rights even when the Supreme Courtroom overturns Roe V Wade.

“This leaked opinion is horrifying and unprecedented, and it confirms our worst fears: that the Supreme Courtroom is ready to finish the constitutional proper to abortion by overturning Roe v Wade,” President Alexis McGill Johnson mentioned in a press release following the leak of a Supreme Courtroom draft resolution.

Alex Woodward examines the organisation’s plans to battle in a post-Roe world in his story under:

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What is Planned Parenthood? The organisation leading the fight for abortion access

What the Supreme Courtroom might come for after Roe v Wade

23:00 , Graig Graziosi

Authorized consultants and civil rights activists worry that after the Supreme Courtroom overturns Roe V Wade it is going to overturn different landmark rulings defending rights like homosexual marriage.

“I’m terrified and other people ought to be terrified,” says Jim Obergefell, whose lawsuit in opposition to the state of Ohio led to the Supreme Courtroom ruling that homosexual marriage was protected by the US Structure.

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‘People should be terrified’: What US Supreme Court could come for after Roe v Wade

A ‘bat****’ invoice exhibits how far Louisiana lawmakers will push an anti-abortion agenda

22:00 , Graig Graziosi

Louisiana’s Home Invoice 813, which is a part of an accelerationist anti-abortion motion within the state calling for an “abolition” of the observe, confronted widespread condemnation for its language permitting the criminalising and imprisoning of sufferers and suppliers of abortions.

The Unbiased’s Alex Woodward spoke delves into the controversial laws in his story under:

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A ‘bat****’ bill shows how far states could push an anti-abortion agenda

Why these prosecutors are refusing to implement legal anti-abortion legal guidelines of their states

21:36 , Graig Graziosi

The Unbiased requested the chief prosecutors in additional than a dozen counties and parishes the place their respective states’ anti-abortion legal guidelines are set to take impact to ask how – or if – they’ll go about prosecuting such instances, together with whether or not they’ll subject subpoenas for private digital knowledge to prosecute them.

“Set off legal guidelines” which is able to go into impact as soon as Roe V Wade is overturned, will successfully ban abortion in practically half the US.

Alex Woodward shares insights from prosecutors in his story under:

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Why these prosecutors refuse to enforce anti-abortion laws in their states

Who’s the Supreme Courtroom justice who wrote leaked draft overturning Roe v Wade?

21:00 , Graig Graziosi

Earlier this 12 months Politico reported on a leaked Supreme Courtroom draft resolution written by Justice Samuel Alito that implies the courtroom is able to overturn Roe V Wade.

Who’s Mr Alito, and why is he main the cost to overturn the nation’s landmark abortion ruling?

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Samuel Alito: Who is Supreme Court justice who wrote leaked draft overturning Roe?

New York expands abortion protections forward of imminent resolution from Supreme Courtroom

20:25 , Graig Graziosi

New York lawmakers expanded abortion protections forward of the probably Supreme Courtroom resolution to overturn Roe V Wade.

Governor Kathy Hochul mentioned New York could be a “secure harbour” for people in search of abortions.

She mentioned “the ladies of New York won’t ever be subjected to government-mandated pregnancies.”

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New York expands abortion protections ahead of Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade

The lady who helped open of the nation’s first abortion clinics discusses the ‘struggle’ to save lots of girls’s proper to decide on

19:29 , Graig Graziosi

Merle Hoffman, who helped open one of many first abortion clinics within the US, spoke with The Unbiased about her work since Roe V Wade and the way the battle for girls’s reproductive rights has modified over the past 50 years.

“I’ve had associates murdered … It’s a struggle, and I’ve been on the entrance line of it for a lot of, a few years,” she mentioned.

Learn extra from Ms Hoffman in Alex Woodward’s story under:

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‘It’s a war:’ Merle Hoffman’s five-decade fight for abortion rights

Advocates for abortion rights are attempting to forestall anti-abortion police from utilizing period-tracking app knowledge to seek out abortion suppliers

18:25 , Graig Graziosi

Abortion rights advocates are attempting to forestall anti-abortion police from utilizing knowledge collected from period-tracking apps to prosecute abortion suppliers.

Vice President Kamala Harris shared her fears throughout a gathering with safety consultants, noting the “vulnerability of girls who’re utilizing menstrual-tracking apps, those that use a search engine to search out sure places or sure assist … and the way weak these searches will probably be to dangerous actors making an attempt to trace their historical past, a lot much less any authorities forces which may be interested by investigating that for no matter function.”

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How your menstrual app data could be used against you in post Roe v Wade America

Democrats urge Google to cease steering abortion sufferers to ‘faux clinics’ in search outcomes

17:29 , Graig Graziosi

Ladies throughout the nation are scambling to schedule reproductive healthcare consultations and operations forward of the Supreme Courtroom doubtlessly overturning Roe V Wade.

A few of these girls utilizing Google to search out abortion clinics or reproductive healthcare suppliers will little doubt discover “disaster being pregnant centres” amongst their search outcomes. These centres are sometimes occasions run by ‘pro-life’ teams and generally use social strain, shaming, or disinformation to persuade girls to not hunt down abortions.

Some Democrats have been pushing for Google to filter disaster being pregnant centres out of its abortion outcomes to forestall girls from being duped. Learn Alex Woodward’s story under:

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Democrats urge Google to block misleading results for abortion clinics

How the ‘pro-life’ motion killed Roe V Wade

16:51 , Graig Graziosi

The so-called ‘pro-life’ motion that opposes girls’s rights to reproductive healthcare has been battling in opposition to abortion entry for many years.

The Unbiased’s Alex Woodward delves into the motion’s historical past and the half it performed within the assault on girls’s proper to entry abortions. Learn the story under:

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Inside the ‘pro-life’ movement that killed Roe v Wade

Welcome to the liveblog

16:41 , Graig Graziosi

Welcome to The Unbiased’s dwell protection of what would be the closing days of Roe V Wade. A Supreme Courtroom draft resolution that was leaked to Politico earlier this 12 months revealed that the courtroom was planning to overturn practically 50 years of precedent, a transfer that may not directly strip thousands and thousands of girls of their proper to finish their pregnancies.

The courtroom’s ruling is anticipated someday this week, presumably as early as tomorrow.