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…
Democratic lawmakers are scrutinizing whether the American dream of a suburban home and white picket fence is being seized upon by large institutional investors, costing working people a shot at property ownership. The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held the virtual panel Tuesday, titled “Where Have All the Houses Gone? Private Equity,…
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…
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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…
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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;…
As any new parent will tell you, taking care of a baby is nothing short of life-changing. The sleepless nights, the constant feedings, the endless diaper changes. And due to the nationwide infant formula shortage, caring for a baby now is exponentially more challenging. For parents who are living in poverty, the formula shortage hits…
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…
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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…
As prices rise, everywhere, for pretty much everything, the prospect of the human suffering this will cause is deeply worrying. There are predictions that the number of people in the world experiencing acute hunger — currently 276 million — could soon rise by as many as 47 million. To address the problem, one thing that…
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