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• Spain's parliament approved a law that expands abortion and transgender rights for teenagers, while also becoming the first EU country to offer workers paid menstrual leave. Under the new law, 16 and 17-year-olds can now have an abortion without parental consent; trans people over 16 years old can legally change their registered gender without medical supervision; and menstrual and contraceptive products will be offered free in schools, prisons, and state-run health ce...Devamını Oku

17 Şub 2023

• US President Joe Biden will sign a second executive order intended to improve access to abortion services, more than five weeks after the US Supreme Court eliminated the nationwide right to an abortion. Biden also lauded the defeat of a measure in Kansas, where voters rejected an amendment to the state Constitution that would have specified women have no right to the procedure. The quote: “This vote makes clear what we know: The majority of Americans agree that wo...Devamını Oku

04 Ağu 2022

• European Parliament lawmakers overwhelmingly supported a resolution that condemned the end of constitutional protections for abortion in the US and called on member nations to add a sentence reading “Everyone has a right to safe and legal abortion” to the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

08 Tem 2022

• Facebook and Instagram are removing posts offering to send abortion pills. Meta Policy Communications Director replied to the reports about censoring posts saying that the company's policies do not allow transactions of prescription drugs.

30 Haz 2022

• Anti-abortion activists should be concerned with other issues that can threaten life, such as easy access to guns, poverty, and rising maternity mortality rates, the Vatican said on the US Supreme Court's ruling to end the constitutional right to abortion, adding that those who oppose abortion could not pick and choose pro-life issues.

27 Haz 2022

• Abortion pill startup Choix raised $1 million in seed funding from venture capitalists, weeks after a report indicated the US Supreme Court might be opening the way for states to limit or ban abortion procedures. Choix plans to raise an additional $500,000 or $1 million in the coming months, co-founder and CEO Cindy Adam said.

02 Haz 2022

• National abortion rights will be up for a vote in the US Senate on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced, following the leaked Supreme Court opinion draft to overturn Roe v. Wade. Even though the bill does not have the 60 needed votes to overcome a filibuster, the Women Protection Act of 2022 marks the first legislative attempt by Democrats to put abortion rights into law.

10 May 2022

• Tesla, Amazon and Apple are among the companies that will compensate for employees' travel costs should they need to go to another state for an abortion, as the Supreme Court was recently reported to be preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade that sets precedent for federal legality of the procedure.

09 May 2022

• The US Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito. The draft opinion repudiates the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights, stating the decision was “egregiously wrong from the start.” via Reuters Why it matters: There is no precedent for the public disclosure of a draft opinion on a pending case in the ...Devamını Oku

04 May 2022

• Citigroup said it will be paying for travel costs their employees would incur to receive abortions out-of-state, as more local governments like Texas dramatically restricted access to the treatment, the bank said. The bigger picture: Citigroup employs over 8,000 people in Texas where the governor last year banned abortions as early as six weeks into the pregnancy. The quote: Former Citi executive said that the bank demonstrated with its latest move that it "puts...Devamını Oku

17 Mar 2022