After 21 years at its current location in downtown Fargo, ND, Red River Women’s Clinic will be moving to Moorhead, Minn. The new location is a 15-minute drive away across the Red River, which forms the state border between Minnesota and North Dakota. Last Friday, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade…
Corporate America is geared to the pursuit of green, but it’s been leaning increasingly red or blue over the past decade. That development may be unwelcome news for shareholders, even if the political beliefs of the company brass align with their own. That’s according to a study released Monday suggesting corporate C-suites have become as…
South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has attained national recognition in recent years for her staunch conservative leadership, which has made her a distinct voice among many Republican leaders nationwide. Noem’s upbringing on a ranch fueled her ambitions to serve her local community, and she now tells that story in her new book, “Not My…
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and hand abortion laws solely back to the states will exact a price on woman, diminishing their “opportunities to participate fully and equally in the nation’s political, social, and economic life,” according to a scathing dissent from the court’s liberal wing that dug. into the financial…
As the nation faces a post-Roe v. Wade reality, some Democratic governors are playing up abortion protections in their states to try to entice companies to move there. Touting their abortion laws as a selling point, the governors of California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Connecticut are pitching their states to potential defectors from…
Read More “Governors are trying to lure companies to their abortion-friendly blue states” »
The existing patchwork of federal and state rules governing insurance coverage of abortion is set to become even more complicated in light of the Supreme Court’s decision Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that established a constitutional right to abortion. Different types of health insurance – including various categories of employer group…
Read More “With Roe reversal, insurance coverage of abortion will get even more complicated” »
For decades, rancorous debate about the ruling has often been dominated by politics. Ethics garners less attention, although it lies at the heart of the legal controversy. As a philosopher and bioethicist, I study moral problems in medicine and health policy, including abortion. Bioethical approaches to abortion often appeal to four principles: respect patients’ autonomy;…
Now that a conservative-majority Supreme Court has banned legal abortion, many Americans are understandably worried about broader reproductive freedom and access to quality healthcare. But beyond care for women and the concerns of their partners, the rollback of decades-old protections from a landmark Roe v. The Wade decision is a reminder that the federal government…
The Supreme Court’s reversal on Friday of Roe v. Wade, the watershed 1973 ruling that recognized a constitutional right to abortion access, will have a seismic and swift impact. So-called trigger laws banning abortion in three states – Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota – will immediately go into effect now that the court has overruled…
Read More “Roe v. Wade overturned: When do abortion-ban trigger laws go into effect?” »
The US Supreme Court said Friday it would strike down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the United States. The highest court in the land announced the ruling on a case brought by Mississippi that seeks to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Some 13 US states have…
