Nicaraguan lawmakers voted Thursday to prohibit abortions for any reason in the country, including procedures to save the life of a pregnant woman. The measure eliminates a long-standing medical necessity exception to the country's anti-abortion laws....
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Scalia defends constitutional approach in debate with ACLU president
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia engaged in a rare televised debate Sunday with ACLU President Nadine Strossen . The two clashed on issues of constitutional interpretation and fundamental rights, with Scalia...
JURIST Guest Columnist Adam Samaha of the University of Chicago Law School says that this Term's US Supreme Court cases will likely reveal whether we have a new boss on the Court who can push its decisions in new directions,...
US District Judge Susan Dlott ruled Wednesday that an Ohio law prohibiting use of the abortion-inducing pill RU-486 is unconstitutional. The law was modeled after a regulation issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Federal appeals court rules Oklahoma abortion law stands while challenged
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has refused to grant an injunction to halt a new Oklahoma law that requires parental notification at least 48 hours in advance of...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Wednesday urged the adoption of an increasingly-problematic draft of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities , a proposed treaty to protect the...
Chen Guangcheng , a blind Chinese human rights legal activist, was sentenced Thursday to four years and three months in prison for damaging property and "organizing a mob to disturb traffic." Chen supporters have said, however, that...
Trial of China rights activist disrupted by arrests of lawyers
The trial of blind Chinese human rights legal activist Chen Guangcheng for illegal assembly and intent to destroy public property was thrown into confusion Friday when Chinese police arrested three of his lawyers, who were accused...
Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon on Wednesday filed a notice of appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit , and told reporters that he intends to appeal a federal court ruling [PDF...
Democrats move to exempt 'confidants' of minors from abortion bill
Democrats in the US Senate are proposing additional exemptions for a bill that would punish those who help a minor cross state lines to receive an abortion without parental consent or notification. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)...
