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☆ Sandra O’Connor’s Extraordinary Final Chapter
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Kate Zernike | More About Kate Zernike | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sandra Day O’Connor gave up lifetime tenure on the Supreme Court — a job she loved and one with extraordinary power — to care for her husband of 52 years as he deteriorated from dementia. That decision, in 2005, began a poignant final chapter of her extraordinary life. Justice O’Connor, who died on Friday at the age of 93, had hoped to care for her husband at their home in Arizona. He was unhappy about the move, but then something remarkable happened: He found romance with another woman who lived there. The justice kept up her regular visits, beaming next to the happy couple as they held hands on a porch swing.

Persons: Sandra Day O’Connor, Justice O’Connor, O’Connor, ”, Scott Locations: Arizona

☆ South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Law, Reversing Earlier Decision
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Kate Zernike | More About Kate Zernike | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the state’s new near-total ban on abortion by a 4-1 vote, reversing a decision it had made in January that struck down a similar ban and declared that the State Constitution’s protections for privacy included a right to abortion. The court’s decision was not unexpected, because the makeup of the bench had changed, and Republicans in the State Legislature had passed a new abortion law in the hopes that it would find a friendlier audience with the new court. The decision in January was written by the court’s only female justice; she retired and South Carolina now has the nation’s only all-male high court. The decision repeated what the justices said in January about a right to privacy in the State Constitution, but said the Legislature had addressed the concerns in the first law and “balanced” the interests of pregnant women with those of the fetus. “To be sure, the 2023 Act infringes on a woman’s right of privacy and bodily autonomy,” Justice John Kittredge wrote for the majority.

Persons: John Kittredge Organizations: South Carolina Supreme, Legislature, South Locations: South Carolina, State

☆ Texas Judge Says Doctors Can Use ‘Good Faith Judgment’ in Providing Abortions
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Kate Zernike | More About Kate Zernike | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Texas judge ruled on Friday that the state must allow doctors to provide abortions to pregnant women whose health or lives are in danger, or whose fetuses have little likelihood of survival. The ruling broadens and clarifies the limited exceptions granted in the state’s bans, among the strictest in the country. And it temporarily bars state officials — until the full case is decided — from prosecuting doctors who, in their “good faith judgment and in consultation with the pregnant person,” determine that an abortion is medically necessary. In her ruling, Judge Jessica Mangrum, elected as a Democrat in 2020, wrote that “the uncertainty regarding the scope of the medical exception and the related threat of enforcement of Texas’ abortion bans has created an imminent risk” for doctors who “will have no choice but to bar or delay the provision of abortion care” to women who require the procedure to prevent death or serious health risks. The ruling was in response to a lawsuit from 13 women who had been denied abortions despite pregnancy complications that they said caused grave and potentially fatal risks to their health.

Persons: Jessica Mangrum, ” Locations: Texas

☆ Ohio Moves Closer to Ballot Issue That Would Protect Abortion Rights
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Kate Zernike | More About Kate Zernike | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights said on Wednesday that it had collected roughly 710,000 signatures across all of the state’s 88 counties over the last 12 weeks. Under state law, the coalition needed 413,466 to qualify for the ballot. Supporters of abortion rights are turning to ballot measures in the aftermath of the ruling last year by the United States Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, which for 50 years had guaranteed a right to abortion in the federal Constitution. They are betting on polls showing that public opinion increasingly supports some right to abortion, and opposes the bans and stricter laws that conservative state legislatures have enacted since the court’s decision. Voters in six states, including conservative ones such as Kentucky and Kansas, voted to protect or establish a right to abortion in their constitutions in last year’s elections, and abortion rights advocates in about 10 other states are considering similar plans.

Persons: Ohio, Roe, Wade Organizations: Ohioans United, Reproductive Rights, United States Locations: state’s, Kentucky, Kansas

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