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Conservative policymakers nationwide are on a crusade to crush women's right to choose. But this war isn't being waged based on science, the Constitution, or anything else that elected leaders should actually consider in their decision-making. It's grounded in a fundamentally warped interpretation of Christianity. Indeed, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed his state's draconian abortion bill ...

Absurdity of Texas abortion law laid bare in Supreme Court arguments  MSNBC

BOSTON — The American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire has returned to court, fighting for Exeter resident Robert Frese's right to say the town's former police chief "covered up for a dirty cop" without fear of criminal penalties. ACLU-NH is challenging the constitutionality of New Hampshire’s criminal defamation law, presenting oral arguments Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

The climate summit continues in Glasgow, Scotland. The Supreme Court heard two challenges to the Texas abortion law. Virginia voters will cast ballots in a tight governor's race. NOEL KING, HOST: At the U.N. Climate Summit in Scotland yesterday, world leaders got on stage one by one to talk about the threat of climate change and what they plan to do about it. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: They'd alrea...

The Supreme Court heard two challenges to the Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks. A majority of the justices appeared open to letting abortion providers challenge the law. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: What did advocates for and against a Texas abortion law hear when the Supreme Court spoke yesterday? Justices, of course, did not rule on the law, but they did hear arguments over the la...

The Supreme Court heard two challenges to the Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks. A majority of the justices appeared open to letting abortion providers challenge the law. Copyright 2021 NPR

The Supreme Court heard two challenges to the Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks. A majority of the justices appeared open to letting abortion providers challenge the law. Copyright 2021 NPR

The Supreme Court heard two challenges to the Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks. A majority of the justices appeared open to letting abortion providers challenge the law. Copyright 2021 NPR

New regulations passed by Iraq’s parliament in September on the Yazidi Survivors Law mark long-overdue progress for many who suffered atrocities committed by the Islamic State (IS) armed group, Amnesty International said. However, the Iraqi authorities must do more to address the needs of all survivors, including by specifically providing reparations for children who were born as a result of ...

The young woman in Beijing began her post complaining about mobs gathering online, where recluses vent misogynistic insecurities from the safety of desk chairs. As provocative as it was, it might have passed unnoticed except that she added another beat. She mocked the toxic masculinity of users imagining themselves as Dong Cunrui, a textbook war hero who, according to Chinese Communist Party ...