#planned-parenthood

#planned-parenthood

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Late last month, the city council in Bristol, Virginia-a small city in the southwest corner of the state-began reviewing an unusual zoning proposal: an ordinance that would restrict abortion within the city's borders.This is among the first attempts to restrict abortion at the local level (rather than via state law) since the Supreme Court's June decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization  In states like Virginia-where abortion is legal but not explicitly protected by state law-it's not clear if or how localities can restrict abortion.

He said the new coalition seeks to put patients and care providers at ease by providing a wide range of legal services to people in places where abortion is restricted - including pro bono representation for anyone facing civil or criminal penalties for seeking, providing or assisting in reproductive care.

Protester outside the Kentucky Supreme Court chambers rally in favor of abortion rights as the Kentucky Supreme Court hears arguments whether to temporarily pause the state's abortion ban in Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022.Timothy D. Easley/AP The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled the state's near-total bans on abortion will remain in place while a lawsuit over the matter continues.

Mayoral candidate Jesús "Chuy" García's congressional campaign says it will cut a check for $2,900 to repay clients of a collapsed cryptocurrency exchange the same amount of money the disgraced former head of the business contributed to García's reelection war chest.The news came as lawyers representing former clients of the FTX exchange said earlier this week they would try to get back the tens of millions of dollars indicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried lavished on political candidates across the U.S.
The cash García received was just a drop in the ocean of money Bankman-Fried splashed out to support campaigns and help fund political action committees on both sides of the aisle.

Amy Bloom is an American writer and psychotherapist.She has written four novels and five collections of short stories, including Love Invents Us, Lucky Us and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You.Her memoir, In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss , is a searing account of her journey with her husband, Brian Ameche, to Dignitas in Switzerland to end his life after he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's.

An Ontario man agreed this week to plead guilty to a series of BB gun shootings against a Planned Parenthood facility in Pasadena and violating a federal law that prohibits interfering with a woman seeking reproductive health services, authorities said.The man, Richard Royden Chamberlin, 54, agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors in court documents filed Tuesday, the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of California said in a statement.

New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul will win a first full term in office, CNN projects, defeating Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin and making history as the first elected female governor of New York.Hochul's victory keeps New York Democrats on track to maintain their now nearly two-decade-old winning streak in statewide elections.

The Supreme Court of Kentucky ruled Thursday that a lower court wrongfully stopped the enforcement of two state abortion laws, according to court documents.The two measures are Kentucky's so-called trigger law banning the procedure and a separate heartbeat law restricting abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy.

California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 1, enshrining the right to reproductive freedom in the state Constitution, less than five months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections.While the new constitutional amendment (PDF) does not expand abortion access into the final months of pregnancy, as some of its opponents had warned, it does bolster reproductive rights by explicitly prohibiting the state from denying anyone access to the procedure or to contraceptives.

AUSTIN, Texas On Monday at the State Capitol, advocates with Planned Parenthood Texas Votes, the political action committee of the reproductive health care provider, showed their support for Senate Bill 1314 the Comprehensive Access to Reproductive Health Entities, or C.A.R.E.No Matter What Act.It would make Planned Parenthood and other established family planning providers eligible to receive state and federal dollars again. "Texans have lost access to critical life-saving care after Planned Parenthood was excluded from federal Medicaid and other essential family planning programs, and that number will continue to grow if Gov. Abbott has his way," Planned Parenthood Texas Votes' Wendy Davis said.

A man accused of firebombing a Planned Parenthood clinic in Peoria, Illinois, earlier this month told investigators that he had done so after recalling an abortion a former girlfriend once had against his wishes, adding that he hoped the fire would delay others in having abortions, according to federal authorities.

by Dennis Crouch
The Federal Circuit has been extremely active over the past few years in hearing mandamus petitions filed under the convenient venue provisions of 28 U.S.C. 1404(a).Most often, these petitions have come from patent infringement defendants who were sued in Judge Albright's Waco court.

A fire at a central Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic is being investigated as arson, Peoria police said Tuesday, just days after the state enacted sweeping abortion protections.Officers responded to a report of an "unknown person throwing a Molotov cocktail" into the Peoria clinic building at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, police spokesperson Semone Roth said.

This article is part of Times Opinion's Holiday Giving Guide 2022.Read more about the guide in a note from Opinion's editor, Kathleen Kingsbury.Reporting this column, I frequently speak to people who work at nonprofits, since they often serve those whose lives are caught up in the currents of our politics.