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The US Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block a Texas law banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy, keeping intact the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the US. Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), signed by Governor Greg Abbott in May, has banned abortion when an ultrasound can detect a “heartbeat,” which is [...]

A Texas law banning abortions as early as six weeks into the pregnancy took effect at midnight Tuesday, becoming the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the US. Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), signed by Governor Greg Abbott in May, will allow any private citizen to sue abortion providers for up to $10,000 per person involved. [...]

Introduction On 7 July 2021, the Law Commission of Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India, released a draft bill on population control.  The Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilisation and Welfare) Bill, 2021, pursuant to the 2022 elections in the state, is purported to be a draconian draft to control the population of the State. [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday overturned a panel decision and upheld Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB8), which seeks to prohibit a specific type of dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion method. In a plurality decision, Circuit Judges Jennifer Walker Elrod and Don Willett wrote that the lower US District Court [...]

A divided US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled 9-7 on Thursday upholding Tennessee’s 48-hour waiting period for an abortion. The ruling stemmed from a 2015 case filed with the US District Court of the Middle District of Tennessee by Planned Parenthood and a group of abortion clinics and women’s rights activists claiming that [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday upheld an Indiana law requiring medical providers to report complications “arising from” abortions to the state. The law requires doctors or other medical providers to report any one of a list of 25 “abortion complications,” including incidents such as uterine perforation, cervical laceration, shock, [...]

The attorney general of Mississippi filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Thursday in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case which asks the Court to reconsider its precedential rulings in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The question presented in the brief to the Court is, “Whether [...]

US District Judge Kristine Baker on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction against SB6, or Act 309, an Arkansas law that would ban all abortions.   Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson signed SB6 after it was passed March of this year by the majority-Republican Legislature. The bill was sponsored by Senator Jason Rapert from District 35 of Central [...]

The Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that two Planned Parenthood centers may pursue their claim to make Louisiana’s Department of Health “promptly rule” on one of the center’s applications for a license to operate as an abortion clinic, finding that the case fell under an exception to sovereign immunity. However, the Fifth Circuit determined that sovereign [...]

The Union Territory (UT) of Lakshadweep is an archipelago of 36 islands off the Kerala coast; it is one of the smallest Union Territories of India, with a meagre population of around 65,000. The majority of the population follows Islam, but their religious practices are pretty unique and almost exclusively limited to the Union Territory. [...]