Two OBGYN’s with differing opinions on abortion
WRTV's Meredith Hackler talks with two OBGYN’s with differing opinions on abortion.
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- Reuters
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Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts will not convene the state legislature for a special session to consider stricter abortion laws because Republican lawmakers did not have the votes to pass a ban on abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy, he said on Monday. The statement by Ricketts, a Republican, comes as several other Republican-led states have grappled in recent weeks with how far to go in restricting abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
- Good Morning America
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The same month the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, a couple in Kansas, thousands of miles away from Washington, D.C., faced their own abortion decision. Breanna O'Brien said she was 20 weeks pregnant with her first child in June and in the process of decorating the nursery when she and her husband Kyle received a devastating diagnosis. The O'Briens said doctors told them the fetus had Xeroderma pigmentosum group D (XPD) and Trichothiodystrophy (TTD), two rare and severe genetic conditions that they said can cause significant disability and a shortened life span.
- NBC News
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- HuffPost
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- LA Times
Inside the abortion clinic 'setting women free all day long' in post-Roe Arizona
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- MAKERS
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- Politico
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
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- HuffPost
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- IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star
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- Washington Post
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- Biloxi Sun Herald
Should Mississippi, like Kansas, vote on abortion? Would the outcome differ?
“A simple way to resolve the conflict between state law and the Mississippi Constitution is to let the people vote like they did in Kansas,” Bobby Harrison writes.
- BBC
Anti-abortion Gen Z-ers see cause as social justice
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- Associated Press
Justice Department asks judge to pause Idaho abortion ban
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- The Herald-Mail
Doctors face mountain of obstacles that make profession less appealing, but Meritus addresses shortage
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- South Bend Tribune
Viewpoint: Judaism is both pro-life and pro-choice
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- People
GOP Rep. Says Extreme Abortion Bans Could Hurt Party in Midterms: 'Handmaid's Tale' Shouldn't Be a 'Road Map'
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- USA TODAY
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- Consequence of Sound
Lin-Manuel Miranda Launches Ham4Choice to Fundraise for Abortion Access
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