The Supreme Court seems likely to strike down a California law that mainly regulates anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers. Both conservative and liberal justices voiced skepticism Tuesday about the law that requires the centers to tell clients about the availability of contraception, abortion and pre-natal care, at little or no cost. Centers that are unlicensed also …
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Literally overnight, the biggest star in the literary world has become a gay bunny named Marlon Bundo. On Sunday night John Oliver announced on HBO’s Last Week Tonight that A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, a children’s book about a gay bunny, named after a pet rabbit owned by the family of Vice President Mike Pence, would be available …
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A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a new Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation — the most restrictive abortion law in the United States. The law took effect as soon as Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed it Monday. The state’s only abortion clinic, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, quickly sued the state, …
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Supreme Court justices on both sides of the ideological spectrum expressed skepticism Tuesday about California’s “truth-in-advertising” law requiring anti-abortion clinics to more fully disclose what they are. The anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” objected to the law on free-speech grounds. While some more liberal justices appeared receptive to the state’s case initially at the court Tuesday, …
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The latest Economist has an eye-opening piece on ex-Muslims and how apostasy is incredibly difficult even when you don’t live in a country under Islamic law. The vast majority, whether young or old, are silent about their faithlessness. One Muslim college student, who came home drunk one evening, was confronted by his father. Not thinking clearly, the son confessed to his …
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When a Sedgwick County commissioner said atheists who want to deliver an invocation at commission meetings can “go to hell,” it set off a storm of criticism. Some of the critics were atheists, many of whom met the remarks with a mixture of humor and anger. “I heard they’re not so closed minded in hell. And there’s …
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Abortions in the United States are safe and have few complications, according to a landmark new study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The report, called “The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States,” examined the four major methods used for abortions — medication, aspiration, dilation and evacuation, and induction …
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Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is poised to sign the nation’s strictest abortion restrictions into law, and the state’s only abortion clinic is preparing an immediate legal challenge. The Republican has a Monday deadline to act on House Bill 1510 , which bans abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation. Bryant says he will sign it, saying he …
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Hundreds of “In God We Trust” signs are going up in some Arkansas public schools thanks to a new state law. The legislation — Act 911 — requires schools to display the U.S. motto alongside both the American and Arkansas flags, the Associated Press reported. But there’s one condition: The posters must be donated. “Every sign that we …
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The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday took the unusual step of suspending a sitting state court judge — Vance Day of Salem — for three years. The high court found that Day, first appointed in 2011 to the bench in Marion County Circuit Court, committed “willful misconduct” and made “willful misstatements” to investigators to cover …
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