US State-Level Abortion Regulations: Causes and Effects

Regulations about abortion are often wildly controversial. But what effects to they actually have? Caitlin Myers addresses these issues in “From Roe to Dobbs: 50 Years of Cause and Effect of US State Abortion Regulations” (Annual Review of Public Health 2025, pp. 433-446). As a starting point, consider the years before and after the 1973 US Supreme Court…

US State-Level Abortion Regulations: Causes and Effects

RODNEY HIDE: Doctors and Nurses now Kill and Maim

Our Doctors and Nurses are leaving babies to die should their attempt to kill them in utero fail.  Their only care is to wrap the poor things in a blanket as they struggle and strain to their last pained breath.  That happens now in New Zealand hospitals with nurses and doctors present with the ability…

RODNEY HIDE: Doctors and Nurses now Kill and Maim

Tying the Knot

Dobbs, of course, was the Supreme Court decision saying that the constitution does not provide a right to abortion, thus leading to restrictions on abortion in many states. The pictures is from The Economist, the original paper is here.

Tying the Knot

Ninth Circuit Rules Against Seattle in Using “Heckler’s Veto” in Arrest of Pro-Life Protester

We have often discussed how cities and universities will use the threat of protests to block or shutdown free speech, particularly of conservative speakers or groups. We now have a major decision out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that could prove an important precedent in resisting the growing anti-free […]

Ninth Circuit Rules Against Seattle in Using “Heckler’s Veto” in Arrest of Pro-Life Protester

Opinion: Abortion law: Roe vs Wade and the US constitution | FT

2017 National Poll Results – Abortion Law Reform gender gap

From http://alranz.org/change-the-law/2017-national-poll-results/

Abortion rights and the Constitution

Yes @amnesty should lift its game

Abortion Legislation Bill – Committee Stage

If sex is assigned at birth, how do sex selective abortions work?

How America politicised abortion | The Economist

Sex discrimination starts before sex is assigned at birth?!

My @DomPost op-ed on viewpoint discrimination in the abortion bill restrictions on clinic protests @familyfirstnz @NZFreeSpeech

At http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/116016236/defending-free-speech-requires-you-to-put-up-with-oddballs-and-a-good-deal-of-rubbish?cid=app-android

Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion: Both Sides of the ‘Heartbeat’ Bill @TheAtlantic

Pro-lifers are lifting their lobbying game; zeroing in on processes that trouble wavering MPs and voters

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