12/6/2021
The registration of this examination in the Senate paves the way for the adoption of a period of 14 weeks - instead of 12 - by the end of the quinquennium.
Towards adoption before the end of the five-year term?
The bill allowing in particular the extension of the legal duration of abortion will finally be examined in January in the Senate, which paves the way for its adoption by the end of the term of office, government sources announced on Monday.
By Otuya Daniel
December 6, 2021
A 53-year old man, Adekunle Aladesanmi, and a nurse, Wuraola Ibrahim have been arraigned before the Ogba Magistrates Court in Lagos state for allegedly inducing an abortion on a 14-year old girl.
According to a report by PM Express, the incident happened at Temidire Street, Ajegunle, Apapa area of Lagos, where they reside.
A short history of the Roe decision’s emergence as a signature cause for the right
Jessica Glenza
Sun 5 Dec 2021
Public opinion on abortion in the US has changed little since 1973, when the supreme court in effect legalized the procedure nationally in its ruling on the case Roe v Wade. According to Gallup, which has the longest-running poll on the issue, about four in five Americans believe abortion should be legal, at least in some circumstances.
Yet the politics of abortion have opened deep divisions in the last five decades, which have only grown more profound in recent years of polarization. In 2021, state legislators have passed dozens of restrictions to abortion access, making it the most hostile year to abortion rights on record.
Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/05/abortion-opposition-focus-white-evangelical-anger
In a case at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, European groups supported criminalising women who had obstetric emergencies
Diana Cariboni and Tatev Hovhannisyan
3 December 2021
European right-wing groups backed the El Salvador government over the imprisonment and death of a woman for having a miscarriage. But they lost.
One of the groups was the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), a branch of the ultra-conservative American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), led by Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow.
Continued: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/europe-us-right-groups-elsalvador-criminalising-abortion/
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is an open challenge to the Court’s authority, and perhaps broadly reflects a spirit of legal self-help that is running through the land.
By Jeannie Suk Gersen
December 4, 2021
The legal landscape of the past weeks and months has prompted questions of which people and entities are legitimate interpreters and enforcers of the law and what happens when you take the law into your own hands. Mississippi and other states took the recent changes in personnel on the Supreme Court as an invitation to defy the Court’s constitutional rulings on abortion, and those states now seem likely to prevail.
During oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, last Wednesday, the three liberal Justices often seemed to be delivering dirges, as though they had accepted a loss and were speaking for posterity. Mississippi’s ban on abortions after fifteen weeks of pregnancy, which boldly flouts the Court’s precedents setting the line at around twenty-four weeks, is likely to be upheld by the conservative Justices.
What makes you think a movement this extreme would stop at erasing a woman’s right to choose?
By ALEX MORRIS , Rolling Stone
December 4, 2021
Listening to the oral arguments this week in
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, one thing seemed abundantly
clear: Roe v. Wade will soon be overturned. This was clear in Chief Justice
John Roberts’ line of questioning, as he lamely tried to get his conservative
colleagues to stick to the Mississippi law’s original (unconstitutional)
15-week ban rather than considering a full overturn of Roe that the state
started pushing for as soon as Justice Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed. It was
clear when Barrett inanely skirted the issue of forced pregnancy and childbirth
by reassuring the court that “safe haven” laws still allowed women to give
their babies up for adoption. It was especially clear when Justice Brett
Kavanaugh began suggesting that the Constitution is “neutral on the question of
abortion” and enumerating cases in which precedent has been overturned. Based
on their line of questioning — and to the extent that it is predictive — a
majority of justices demonstrated not only a willingness to overturn Roe but
some prior consideration of how to justify doing so. Whether Dobbs is the case
that will finally mark the end of the constitutionally protected right to an
abortion (and we probably won’t know until June or July), it is clear that the
end is coming soon.
Bill banning all abortions falls by large majority, but a second one passed the first round
DECEMBER 3, 2021
International Campaign for Safe Abortion
Polish Women’s Strike activists spilled red paint and left slogans saying
“Don’t ask for my blood Poland” on cardboard outside Polish ruling party (PiS)
offices in different cities in Poland over last weekend in anticipation of the
upcoming week in the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, where two
anti-abortion bills are tabled for this week. It’s a Ministry of Health decree
, they have put it on their website until 6 December for comments. The 16-page
text of the government’s abortion bill can be found here in
Polish.
A bill tabled
for 30 November aims to create a Polish Institute of Family and
Demography, led by right-wing fundamentalist parliamentarian Bartłomiej
Wróblewski, the same person who tabled the motion to the Constitutional Court
that resulted in the October 2020 ban on abortion.
Their goal is an increase in Poland’s birth rate, which they hope to achieve by
limiting the number of divorces and creating what they call the “proper social
context”. It allows women to be investigated if they were known to be pregnant
and are no longer pregnant. This bill was passed by only one vote of 205 to
204, with 24 abstentions. It will now go to a committee.
Continued: https://www.safeabortionwomensright.org/news/poland-urgent-solidarity-requested/
Democracy Now!
Dec 3, 2021
Video: 19 mins – with transcript
As the Supreme Court looks poised to uphold Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban and possibly overturn Roe v. Wade we speak to The Nation’s Amy Littlefield about her investigation into the Christian legal army behind the Mississippi law as well as anti-trans laws across the country. She also critiques the mainstream pro-choice movement’s failure to center the poor and people of color. “There is a change coming within the movement because of its reckoning with these past missteps including, frankly, the failure to adequately protect Black women and to stand up for the safety of the people whose rights were eroded first,” says Littlefield.
Continued: https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/3/thinking_beyond_roe_amy_littlefield_abortion
December 3, 2021
Heard on All Things Considered
Mary Louise Kelly
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Gretchen Sisson, a sociologist at UCSF, who has studied whether the option to put a child up for adoption alleviates the need for a woman to get an abortion.
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
In oral arguments this week before the Supreme Court over Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks, the court's newest justice, Amy Coney Barrett, brought up the issue of adoption as a viable alternative to abortion. Well, sociologist Gretchen Sisson has studied and written extensively about the choices people make when they don't wish to have a child, and she joins me now.
Pro-choice groups and lawmakers will focus voters’ attention on the threat to reproductive rights after Mississippi case
Lauren Gambino in Washington
Fri 3 Dec 2021
With the US supreme court seemingly poised to exploit its conservative supermajority to undermine or overturn the landmark Roe v Wade decision, Democrats are vowing to make abortion a defining issue of next year’s midterm elections, embracing what they view as a political silver lining in an otherwise nightmare scenario.
As the justices weigh whether to uphold a Mississippi law banning most abortions after 15 weeks, far earlier than Roe allows, and a request by the state that they explicitly overturn the historic 1973 ruling, Democrats and their allies have promised a fight.
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