UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 day agoDon't hold back any Mandelson documents, Tories tell PM in contempt warning
Government redactions over Peter Mandelson’s US ambassador appointment face contempt motions if full papers are not released.
Supporters of the unsuccessful reform bill, tabled by the Social Democrats, argued that the delay serves no medical purpose. As the bill moved through political debate and media coverage, those defending the requirement to wait three days from the time of requesting an abortion before care can be accessed barely attempted to argue otherwise, instead structuring their opposition to reform around the idea that women cannot be trusted to know what they want.
Iowa on Tuesday became the 17th state to restrict access to telehealth abortions by imposing on them an in-person prescription requirement, and strictly by a medical provider, with House Bill 2788-one of 13 bills signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa). This comes as another setback in a state that already has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, during a time that feels especially fraught for medication abortions.
Days before the court ruling, she had launched a website aimed at Americans looking to move abroad. As confusion and consternation set in over what the ruling meant for US women, Barnett watched traffic to her website steadily tick upward. We had this huge spike. It was all she needed to co-found her company, Expatsi, which has since helped thousands of Americans looking to move abroad.
Elias Calocane described his brother, who sent him texts about red rum, which is murder spelt backwards, as a calm and peaceful person. Former student Calocane, who has paranoid schizophrenia, stabbed to death undergraduates Barnaby Webber and Grace O-Malley-Kumar, both 19, and caretaker Ian Coates, 65, before trying to murder three pedestrians with a van in Nottingham.