Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, warned that the bill “would allow lawmakers to employ the threat of criminal sanctions to reduce the amount of private speech regarding the actions of the lawmakers themselves.”
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A majority of French high schoolers believe they and their classmates should be allowed to wear religious symbols such as a hijab or a kippah, a poll has found.
“Conspicuous religious symbols” have been banned in schools since 2004 as part of France’s constitutionally enshrined laïcité strand of secularism, and conservative politicians have been discussing banning Islamic veils in universities.
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Ana Estrada, who is confined to her bed, says she feels “happy and content” about a historic decision by Peruvian officials to allow her an assisted death, a remarkable ruling in this mostly Roman Catholic country where euthanasia is illegal.
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A well-known Quebec lawyer says she’s mounting a legal challenge to provincial laws that don’t grant common-law spouses the same rights as married couples in the event of a breakup.
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72% of immigrants with children are still in their first marriage, whereas this share among native-born Americans is just 60%, per a new IFS research brief.
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SB 6 would ban all abortions in the state unless the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother.
According to the bill, anyone who performs or attempts to perform an abortion outside the limited exceptions could be fined up to $100,000, face up to 10 years in prison, or both.
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It allows exceptions for hospitals, cases where the mother’s life is in danger and cases involving Medicaid, which are governed by federal law.
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser recently proposed that children as young as 11 should be able to consent to vaccinations without their parents’ knowledge.
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