The court finds itself immersed in a new fight involving abortion less than a year after conservative justices reversed Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.
Laws were also passed to strengthen transgender and abortion rights for teenagers in Spain.
Year ender 2022: This year turned out to be full of positives for women as the Supreme Court took several important decisions in their favour. Read below to know the list of path-breaking decisions that the top court took this year.
गर्भपात पर Supreme Court का आया बड़ा फैसला, अविवाहित महिलाओं को दिया गर्भपात का अधिकार #abortion #supremecourt #indiatv
Supreme Court on abortion: A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, JB Pardiwala and AS Bopanna delivered the verdict on the interpretation of the MTP Act, and whether unmarried or single women can be allowed like their married counterparts the benefit of abortion up to 24 weeks.
Delhi Suicide case: In the suicide note written in Hindi, the woman alleged that she had been in a live-in relationship with a man who made a physical relationship with her with the promise of marriage but refused to marry her
The White House said it will also convene volunteer lawyers to provide women and providers with pro bono legal assistance to help them navigate new state restrictions after the Supreme Court ruling.
Samay Raina was slammed for making a dark joke about abortion. The comedian defended himself saying, "Guys relax, it's just a joke, she didn't make me delete my tweet."
The whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, rescheduling them, and now potentially cancelling appointments again - all in the span of a week.
Trudeau called the court’s decision “horrific” and voiced concern that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections for gay relationships, including the right for same-sex couples to marry.
Can a woman choose to keep or abort her baby? The question has always been discussed in the United States. Sexual and reproductive health rights activists saw a big win back in 1973, with the Roe vs Wade ruling.
A Netflix spokesperson told 'Variety' that the streaming service does offer travel reimbursement coverage for full-time US employees and their dependents who need to travel for cancer treatment, transplants, gender-affirming care, or abortion.
Joe Biden called on Americans to elect more Democrats who would safeguard rights upended by the court’s decision.
The February ruling there established a broad right for women to have abortions within the 24-week period, whereas previously they could do so only in specific cases such as if a fetus presented malformations or a pregnancy resulted from rape. Abortion is still allowed after that period under those special circumstances.
Now women in Colombia will be able to get abortions until the 24th week of their pregnancy without having to provide any justification. After the 24th week of pregnancy, abortion will still face restrictions.
Earlier, abortion required the opinion of one doctor if it is done within 12 weeks of conception and two doctors if it is done between 12 and 20 weeks.
Women’s groups labeled the Trump policy a “gag rule,” and medical organizations called it a violation of the clinician-patient relationship.
The day before the march, the Biden administration urged a federal judge to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions in Texas since early September.
The Texas law is just one that has set up the biggest test of abortion rights in the U.S. in decades, and it is part of a broader push by Republicans nationwide to impose new restrictions on abortion.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department would “protect those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services” under a federal law known as the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
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