Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On 19 February 2024, a group of United Nations special rapporteurs released a report stating "rights experts call for probe into violations against Palestinian women and girls." According to the report, there is evidence that during the Gaza war, Palestinian women and girls were subjected to wartime sexual violence. [15]
The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.Wade in 2022 and gutted our constitutional right to abortion, all eyes have been on the states. And what a time it’s been: 22 states have passed more ...
In Nebraska, 48.7 percent of voters approved the state's Right to Abortion measure, (Initiative 439), which would have amended the constitution to declare that "all persons shall have a ...
In 2024, France became the first country to explicitly protect abortion rights in its constitution, [1] while Yugoslavia implicitly inscribed abortion rights in its constitution in 1974. [2] Abortion continues to be a controversial subject in many societies on religious, moral, ethical, practical, and political grounds. Though it has been ...
Harris, who has helped lead the charge for Biden on abortion rights, told the rally that one in three women of reproductive age live in a state with an abortion ban.
Seven of the 10 states that sought to enshrine reproductive freedoms in the 2024 elections prevailed, and in some cases, the new constitutional amendments will overrule existing abortion bans
In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state very hostile to abortion rights, the abortion rate by state of occurrence dropped from 4 in 1000 women aged 15–44 for 2017 to 0.1 for 2020, because 57% of abortion recipients went out of state in 2017, while 99% did so in 2020. [319]