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Utah approves 72 hour waiting period for abortions

March 21, 2012 12:23:47 PM

Utah Governor Gary Herbert on Tuesday signed into law a bill that extends the waiting period for a woman seeking an abortion from 24 hours to 72 hours. The Utah waiting period law closely...

March 20, 2012 12:54:14 PM

The Idaho State Senate approved a bill on Monday requiring a woman who is seeking an abortion to first receive an ultrasound. The ultrasound bill's purported goal is to ensure that a woman's "consent...

March 16, 2012 03:00:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Mailee Smith, Staff Counsel at Americans United for Life, argues that legislation requiring ultrasounds before an abortion are constitutional under Supreme Court precedent and serve an essential medical purpose...Most abortion regulations are hotly contested before and after...

March 14, 2012 12:39:00 PM

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Tuesday struck down two recently-enacted parts of the Illinois Election Code designed to cap campaign contributions. Judge Marvin Aspen issued an injunction [order,...

March 8, 2012 09:26:02 AM

Virginia Govenor Bob McDonnell on Wednesday signed legislation that will require women to have an ultrasound before undergoing an abortion . The bill was approved by the House of Delegates and the Senate...

March 2, 2012 12:44:56 PM

The Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill on Thursday that would require a woman seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound before the procedure. The bill was passed by the...

March 1, 2012 11:06:59 AM

The Georgia House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation banning late-term abortions . The bill, passed in a vote of 102-65, would prohibit most abortions performed beyond five months of pregnancy except in...

February 29, 2012 08:44:24 AM

The Virginia Senate approved a bill on Tuesday that would require a woman seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound before the procedure. The bill was passed by the Virginia House...

February 23, 2012 12:58:14 PM

The Virginia House of Delegates passed a watered-down version of a controversial ultrasound bill Wednesday, which requires women seeking an abortion have a transabdomenal ultrasound before going through with the procedure. The...

February 16, 2012 01:25:55 PM

The Oklahoma Senate on Wednesday voted to pass a bill that defines life as beginning at the moment of conception. The bill passed 34-8 and will advance to the State House for consideration....

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US apologizes to Japanese-Americans for detention during WWII

US President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 into law on August 10, 1988, apologizing on behalf of the United States to Japanese-Americans who were interned in camps during WWII and providing $20,000 in compensation for each survivor. The law also provided $12,000 in compensation for each living displaced Aleutian Islander who was relocated to a camp in Alaska during the US's Aleutian Islands campaign.

President Reagan authorized compensation for Japanese-Americans interned during World War II

On August 10, 1988, US President Ronald Reagan signed a bill that provided payments of $20,000 to Japanese-Americans who were sent to internment camps by the US government during World War II. Learn more about the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which also included a formal apology by Congress for what it called a "grave injustice."

National Security Act Amendment reorganizes U.S. military

On August 10, 1949, the National Security Act Amendment was signed into law. It replaced the Department of War with the Department of Defense (DoD) and pulled all military service branches directly under the supervision of the DoD. Learn more about the National Security Act from the U.S. State Department.