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    I was adopted, but still looking for birth mother

    22 May 2022

    I was born in July 1956 in Silver Spring, Maryland. When I was 6, my parents told me that I was adopted. There was a storybook about adoption gently explaining what it meant. I remember thinking, “but you’re my parents.” My parents also said “don’t tell

    US Supreme Court strikes down constitutional right to abortion

    24 Jun 2022

    The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 "Roe v Wade" decision that enshrined a woman's right to an abortion, saying that individual states can now permit or restrict the procedure themselves.

    Supreme Court has eroded First Amendment law

    24 Jun 2022

    In an extremely important church-and-state decision, the Supreme Court has held that if the state of Maine decides to pay for a child’s private education in lieu of a public one, it must allow its tuition money to be used at religious schools. The 6-3 decision, Carson v. Makin, profoundly undermines existing First

    Fresh protests as new US abortion reality takes shape

    26 Jun 2022

    The deeply polarised country grappled with a new level of division: between states that will now or soon deny the right to abortion, enshrined since 1973, and those that still allow it.

    Battle over abortion shifts to states

    27 Jun 2022

    The expected majority opinion penned by Justice Samuel Alito said the Constitution nowhere guarantees the right to abortion, and it is for the elected representatives in the states to regulate abortion laws in varying degrees.

    US justices appear like seasoned politicians

    15 May 2022

    The Supreme Court is unravelling. The leak last week of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that would overturn the 1973 abortion-rights precedent Roe v. Wade is just part of it. The court began to leak even before the opinion (there were reports

    Proposed New Zealand abortion law to give women right to choose

    05 Aug 2019

    Under the proposed law, a woman will have access to an abortion until 20 weeks’ pregnancy and would only require a medical examination after that.

    Why we need term limits for Supreme Court justices

    06 May 2022

    The Supreme Court’s now-confirmed intention of overturning the half-century-old protection for abortion rights in Roe v. Wade is energizing the debate over how to rein in the court’s extreme conservative slant. Expanding the court beyond its current

    Amanda Seyfried stands up for refugees and abortion rights at Power of Women

    07 May 2022

    Amanda Seyfried in her Power of Women speech honoured the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance (INARA), a nonprofit that connects refugee children with crucial medical and mental health care.

    Supreme Court’s leak investigation is self-destructive

    09 Jun 2022

    In “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” — John le Carré’s classic novel about the hunt for a traitor near the top of British Intelligence — the hero, George Smiley, tells a colleague that “the art” of being a mole “is to be one of a crowd.” The greater the number of suspects, the smaller the possibility of being caught. Smiley is hauled

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