ROE V WADE

In the week since the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade, a Jacksonville-area woman’s health clinic says the number of patients it’s seen has doubled.

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The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion that had stood for nearly a half-century. The decision by the court’s conservative majority overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for the Republican Party to participate in climate change and make it a bipartisan issue while speaking at the opening session of the Aspen Ideas Climate Conference in Miami. Pelosi wanted the party to go back to its roots and back to the time when it cared for women’s rights and also the environment among other great things. “Here I am Nancy Pelosi saying this country needs a strong Republican Party and we do; not a cult, but a strong Republican Party,” she said.

Protests have erupted all over the country after Politico released a leaked initial draft majority opinion indicating the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn two abortion-related cases, which would end federal protection of abortion rights.

Rivera earned praise from liberals on social media for defending women’s rights

A Jacksonville doctor told News4JAX she is concerned minority women could face challenges if states further restrict or ban abortions.

President Joe Biden is highlighting deficit reduction, noting that the government will pay down the national debt this quarter for the first time in six years. He's placing renewed emphasis on deficit reduction going into the midterm election. (May 4)

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said that the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion to overturn Roe v Wade was a “judicial insurrection”. While speaking to reporters at Fort Myers Beach, Florida, DeSantis claimed, “I think there was an intentional thing to try to whip up a lot of the public, to try to make it very political, potentially try to bully them into changing one of their positions, and that is not something that's appropriate for the judicial branch”. Talking about U.S.’s stance on abortion DeSantis said, “I mean the U.S. is more in line with countries like China and North Korea than it is with typical European countries”.

Speaking to the press alongside other Senate Democrats on Tuesday, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the caucus will hold a vote on legislation that would protect the right to an abortion.

It is a bombshell. A draft opinion leaked from the Supreme Court suggests after nearly 50 years the nation’s highest court is poised to overturn the right to abortion ensured by the nearly 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision.

Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the authenticity of the draft opinion published by Politico, though he notes it doesn't represent the court's final position.

The court's eventual ruling may cut off abortion access for tens of millions of American women.

If Roe v Wade is overturned, millions of American women will lose access to legal abortions.

The president's administration will ask the Supreme Court to block a restrictive Texas abortion law.

The cases against a doctor who admitted to performing an abortion are the first known lawsuits.

According to the Pew Research Center, 67 per cent of US Catholics disagree with banning Biden from taking Communion

The poll comes weeks after the Supreme Court said it would hear a case that could potentially dismantle Roe v Wade