The fundamental issue at stake in abortion debates is personhood, which is viewed differently around the world, an anthropologist writes.
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Only 24 countries today totally ban abortion. The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in the US is unlikely to lead other countries to join that list.
Same-sex marriage and contraception rights could be under threat, if the same legal principle is used as in the recent abortion case.
The judicial theory has been a major talking point during the Supreme Court’s last term. But what does it actually mean?
Several rap songs speak on the subject of abortion from the perspective of the unborn child.
Islamic views on abortion are based on diverse interpretations of what’s right and wrong when it comes to the body.
It would take huge numbers of people submitting bad data to affect the algorithms behind period tracking apps, but even then it would be more harmful than helpful.
By overturning Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court has thrown the issue of abortion back to the states – and made it harder for Black and brown women to have access to reproductive health services.
The notwithstanding clause is both historically appropriate and democratically desirable. Excising it would make our Charter of Rights and Freedoms more American. Is that really where we want to go?
Digital traces are already being used as evidence to prosecute people accused of seeking abortions.
Decision-making in the Canadian Supreme Court appears to be more fundamentally rooted in the law, not politics, than it is in the United States. Here’s why.
The court’s history shows it is often at the centre of political arguments.
Unlike Australia, judicial appointments in the US are politicised. Democratic presidents will try to appoint left-wing judges and Republican presidents will try to appoint right-wing judges.
The combination of crumbling democratic norms in the U.S. Supreme Court appointments process and an ideological court out of step with mainstream America raises questions of how it could be reformed.
Differing U.S. and Canadian political and judicial systems offer Canada protections against outlawing abortion here. But there’s still a lot of work to be done to ensure reproductive justice.
The concept of body ownership shows how the Supreme Court’s decision affects every woman, whether they can get pregnant or not.
Sensationalism is ingrained in any conversation about abortion because the issue has long stood in for the country’s deepest fears.
A historian explains why the pre-Roe anti-abortion movement was filled with liberal Democrats who opposed the Vietnam War and supported the expansion of the welfare state.
Some companies say they will cover travel expenses to help workers in states where abortion is illegal get the procedure, but doing so could pose legal challenges.
A moral philosopher explains what’s at stake in second-trimester abortions – and why they’ll increase in a post-Roe world.
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