2 h. ago UK abortion laws set for huge overhaul as MPs vote on decriminalisation

According to proposed changes to UK abortion laws, MPs are set to vote on decriminalising terminations after 24 weeks or without approval from doctors in England and Wales

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3 h. ago Harvard appears to think all Jews support Israel. That is discriminatory | Barry Trachtenberg, Victor Silverman, Atalia Omer, Raz Segal, Rebecca T Alpert

We are Jewish scholars who filed an amicus brief with the US supreme court on Harvard’s discriminatory assumption that being Jewish means supporting IsraelHarvard is suing to stop the Trump administration’s unprecedented interference in the operation of the university, supposedly to protect Jewish students from antisemitism. Harvard maintains it has already addressed a crisis of antisemitism on campus. The government is wrong in attacking Harvard, but so is Harvard in its defense.We are part of a group of 27 Jewish scholars of Jewish studies who have filed an amicus brief in Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration. We submitted the brief, drafted by the civil rights attorney Yaman Salahi, because we support the university’s fight against government overreach. Yet in doing so, the institution has committed a different kind of discrimination – one that violates federal civil rights law. We reject Harvard’s troubling assumption that being Jewish necessitates supporting Israe...

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18 h. ago Major airlines may have been secretly selling your flight data to DHS, report claims

Customs and Border Protection requires information ‘to support federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to identify persons of interest,’ documents state

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40 h. ago Republicans use LA protests to push holdouts to pass Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

House Speaker Mike Johnson says ‘it's those men and women, the federal law enforcement officers who deserve our support right now’

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44 h. ago Women will no longer be prosecuted for aborting own child at any stage of pregnancy under changes to the law set to be passed next week

Under the proposals abortion would effectively be decriminalised and women would no longer face prosecution if they ended their own pregnancy after 24 weeks.

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51 h. ago Creasy attempt to change abortion law ‘not supported by abortion providers’ – BPAS

Leading pro-choice charity says NC20 amendment to criminal justice bill ‘not right way’ to reform lawAn attempt to change the law on abortion led by the Labour MP Stella Creasy is not supported by “any of the abortion providers in the country”, a leading pro-choice charity has said.Rachael Clarke, the head of advocacy at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (Bpas), said Creasy’s NC20 amendment to the criminal justice bill “is not the right way” to overhaul abortion laws. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Creasy attempt to change abortion law ‘not supported by service providers’

British Pregnancy Advisory Service says NC20 amendment to criminal justice bill ‘not right way’ to overhaul the lawUK politics live – latest updatesAn attempt to change the law on abortion led by the Labour MP Stella Creasy is not supported by “any of the abortion providers in the country”, a leading pro-choice charity has said.Rachael Clarke, the head of advocacy at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (Bpas), said Creasy’s NC20 amendment to the criminal justice bill “is not the right way” to overhaul abortion laws. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Labour support for assisted dying law falls as more MPs switch position to oppose change over coercion fears and effect on vulnerable people

The Commons will next week debate changes to the plan to allow terminally ill people with less than six months to live to end their own lives, ahead of a crunch vote later this month.

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3 w. ago 'I watched a woman be prosecuted for an illegal abortion, now I want to change the law'

'Abortion should not still be illegal in this country'

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3 w. ago Kash Patel scraps FBI unit monitoring surveillance rules compliance

Bureau’s office of internal auditing was set up to uncover misuses of Fisa surveillance during Trump’s first termUS politics live – latest updatesThe FBI director, Kash Patel, has scrapped a watchdog team set up to scrutinise a warrantless surveillance law he previously claimed was being abused to target supporters of Donald Trump.He has ordered the closure of the FBI’s office of internal auditing, a unit set up during Trump’s first presidency to uncover misuses of a contentious part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa), the New York Times reported. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago SARAH VINE: The rules on assisted dying and abortion aren't perfect. But no one has come up with anything better

Death is a live topic in Westminster. We have Kim Leadbeater's ill thought-out and chaotic Assisted Dying Bill and Stella Creasy's newest attempt to reform abortion laws.

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3 w. ago Legally dead pregnant mum being kept alive on life support as 'incubator' for foetus

Adriana Smith, 30, is essentially dead - but because she's around 21 weeks pregnant, doctors are refusing to switch off her life support because of a draconian abortion law

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3 w. ago Kentucky auditor sues governor in bid to end dispute blocking kinship care law

Kentucky’s auditor is asking a judge to untangle a dispute blocking a state law meant to support adults who care for young relatives who have endured suspected abuse or neglect at home

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4 w. ago Polish election: Tusk party urged to show it is not ‘deceiving women’ on abortion

Five years after near-total ban on abortion, campaigners say Sunday’s elections will be critical to see if promised change happensPoland’s presidential elections are a “historic, groundbreaking” chance for Donald Tusk’s centrist party to show it was not trying to “deceive women” when it promised to change some of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws, campaigners have said.Voters across Poland will head to the polls on Sunday in the first round of the elections to replace Andrzej Duda, the current president who is aligned with the former rightwing government and has veto power over legislation. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago ‘This is the moment’: Poland elections chance for Tusk centrists to relax abortion laws

Five years after near-total ban on abortion, campaigners say Sunday’s elections will be critical to see if promised change happensPoland’s presidential elections are a “historic, groundbreaking” chance for Donald Tusk’s centrist party to show it was not trying to “deceive women” when it promised to change some of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws, campaigners have said.Voters across Poland will head to the polls on Sunday in the first round of the elections to replace Andrzej Duda, the current president who is aligned with the former rightwing government and has veto power over legislation. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago The assisted dying lobby isn’t being honest with you – disabled people are at risk from this bill | Lucy Webster

Proponents say the measures being debated in parliament will apply only to people who are on their deathbeds. That isn’t trueYou’ve been deceived by the campaign for assisted dying. It has told you who the proposed law is for: people on their metaphorical deathbeds, no hope in sight, desperate to spare themselves and their loved ones the experience of an agonising death. And no wonder – these cases obviously merit sympathy and concern. These are the people campaigners want to talk about; this is the narrative that pushes people into unquestioning support for their cause.But what of the people the law would include who they don’t want you to consider? Proponents keep saying that the bill is tightly drawn to exclude disabled people, because it limits eligibility to those with only six months to live. But this is patently false. The line between disability and illness – a line this bill relies on – is not a sharp distinction. It is blurry, ever-moving and dependent on social factors fa...

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last month McArthur hopeful ahead of crucial assisted dying vote on ‘historic day’

Supporters say there is a groundswell of public support for changing the law.

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