Supreme Court Hears DOJ Challenge to Texas Abortion Ban, Considers Revival of a Jim-Crow-Era Tactic to Circumvent Constitutional Rights | Most Powerful Moments and Takeaways From the Congressional Hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment | While Courts Battle Over S.B. 8, Who's There for College Students Who Need Abortions?
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Supreme Court Hears DOJ Challenge to Texas Abortion Ban, Considers Revival of a Jim-Crow-Era Tactic to Circumvent Constitutional Rights

 

 

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in two cases—United States v. Texas and Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson—both challenging the Texas law S.B. 8, which bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Texas legislators designed the law to evade federal court review by creating procedural obstacles to challenging the law. 

“Though this is in one sense about abortion, it is really about much more. It’s about: Can the state adopt a law that blatantly violates the Constitution and then immunize itself from federal court review? It’s about whether states have to follow the Constitution. It’s about the very structure of American government.”

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ICYMI: Most Powerful Moments and Takeaways From the Congressional Hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment

BY MS. EDITORS | On Thursday, October 21, advocates testified before the House Oversight & Reform Committee on the Equal Rights Amendment, including president of Feminist Majority, Ellie Smeal; actor and activist Alyssa Milano; Virginia state Senator Jennifer McClellan; president and CEO of the ERA Coalition, Carol Jenkins; founder of the TransLatin@ Coalition, Bamby Salcedo; and constitutional law scholar Victoria Nourse. During the hearing, members of Congress and ERA advocates set the context for the historic event, outlining the need for the ERA. They testified on the dramatic impacts the amendment would have on women, people of color and the trans community, and how the proposed 28th Amendment could help shore up gaps in abortion access.

As a collective, the testimony made a legal, constitutional and ethical case for one demand: ERA now.
 
 
 
 
While Courts Battle Over S.B. 8, Who’s There for College Students Who Need Abortions?

BY MEREDITH ABDELNOUR | While the Supreme Court prepares to hear cases about Texas’s abortion ban S.B. 8, activists on the ground are providing support for college students, who are uniquely impacted by the law.

"We know what we’re doing is right … we’re just providing sexual health resources. We are here to empower each other.”
 
 
 
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