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In 2024, South Carolina lawmakers reinstated a bill that would define abortion as "prenatal homicide"; and make abortion patients eligible for the death penalty. [10] The number of abortion clinics in South Carolina has fluctuated over the years, with fifteen in 1982, eighteen in 1992 and three in 2014. There were 5,714 legal abortions in 2014 ...
Snyder played a pivotal role in the ACLU’s successful efforts to protect abortion rights in Michigan. Kitaba explained that the ruling in our 2016 case was the first to affirm bodily autonomy as ...
William Van Regenmorter (January 29, 1939 – June 18, 2012) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Michigan, representing Ottawa County. [1] He served as the representative of Michigan's 55th district from 1982 to 1990 and the 74 district from 2002 to 2006. [2]
In 2015 The Victims Bill of Rights Act (Bill C-32) created the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights and amended other legislation to align with these rights. [ 23 ] [ 22 ] Since the first provincial Victims Bill of Rights in Manitoba, every province and territory has instated some type of law that addresses victims of crime although they vary.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, shown Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, signed bills into law on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, aimed at expanding rights for victims of domestic and sexual violence in Michigan.
The mood was somber as the names of domestic violence victims were read during the 25th Annual Silent Witness Ceremony held at the South Carolina State Capitol complex on Tuesday.
The federal victims' rights amendments which have been proposed are similar to the above. The primary contention, and perhaps the main reason that to this point they remain only proposals, is whether they will apply only to federal offenses and the federal system or will mandate all states to adopt similar provisions (the version advocated by at least one very high-profile advocate, John Walsh ...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer holds a news conference to sign the Reproductive Freedom Act with lawmakers and activists who worked to get the legislation passed at Schoolcraft College in Livonia ...