#planned-parenthood

#planned-parenthood

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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.

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.