In 2004, Degrassi: The Next Generation aired what would become their most controversial episode with “Accidents Will Happen,” which premiered in Canada in two parts on January 26 and February 9, 2004. However, the episode would not see the light of day on Degrassi’s U.S. network, The N, for another …
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The Supreme Court will decide this term whether states can force doctors to turn away patients suffering serious, life-threatening medical complications, or if doctors will be allowed to provide standard medical care to those patients: abortions. The court announced last week it will hear arguments over the Emergency Medical Treatment …
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It’s no secret that former President Donald Trump’s once-rosy relationship with Fox News has soured since his 2020 election loss. On Wednesday, during a town hall event nearly two years since his last live event with the network, Trump professed to hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum how proud he …
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The Supreme Court has allowed Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, which applies to medical emergencies. The decision arrived on Friday as a legal battle over reproductive rights rages on in the state, and is the first time the high court weighed in on Idaho’s abortion ban since the …
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Republican lawmakers in Florida are pushing a bill that would revise the state’s wrongful death law, allowing individuals to sue — and recover monetary damages — over the loss of an “unborn child.” Critics say the legislation would allow individuals to bring wrongful death lawsuits against doctors who provide abortion …
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The Supreme Court announced last week that it would take up a case considering restrictions onthe most widely-used method of abortion in the United States: the abortion pill. Under a worst-case scenario for American women, that case could have triggered a full reversal of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval …
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When Kate Cox was forced to flee Texas after state authorities denied her pleas to terminate a potentially deadly pregnancy, it laid bare the true cost of state control over women’s reproductive health. It’s also made plain that Republicans — despite their claims to hold the moral high ground on …
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Jane Doe, the pseudonymous plaintiff who brought a challenge to Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban on Friday, is no longer carrying a viable pregnancy, her lawyers informed the court Tuesday. No details were provided beyond the fact that Doe “learned her embryo no longer had cardiac activity” the day before. The …
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The Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, the pregnant mother who sought permission to obtain an emergency abortion,on Monday. “These laws reflect the policy choice that the Legislature has made, and the courts must respect that choice,” the court’s seven-page ruling read. The court found that Cox’s doctor, Dr. …
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When I was a kid growing up in the Berkeley flatlands, I used to play with a couple of neighbor kids, Tony and his little brother, Mikey. One day in 1979, two men got out of a car, approached Tony and Mikey’s house, and beat another man with a club. …
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