In the U.S., Joe Biden is making feticide a central issue of the 2024 presidential campaign, with Vice President Kamala Harris heading across the country on an “abortion tour” to whip up voters. In the U.K., there is a push to decriminalize abortion entirely; in France, the Senate just voted to put abortion in the French Constitution.
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While the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone in 2000, doctors have to this point been required to obtain specific permission to prescribe it. The pill had previously been accessible only through these doctors and through abortion clinics that ship the drug through the mail, but a January 2023 FDA regulatory change now allows pharmacies to apply to become certified to offer the pill.
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If adopted, the Roy amendment would prohibit the government from engaging in “any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral conviction” regarding marriage between a man and a woman, according to the text.
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Every year, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) hosts a conference-type gathering at the UN where it invites diplomats, UN personnel, and civil society for interactive dialogues and round tables on themes related to women’s equality. The session culminates with a resolution adopted by UN member states. This year progressive countries proposed a text that prioritizes abortion access and gender ideology as key determinants of women’s empowerment.
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The new ruling overrides the Quebec Superior Court’s 2021 ruling which exempted the Montreal English school board from the province’s secularism law which prohibits public servants from wearing cross or other religious symbols.
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