By Elisabeth Nieshalla | July 8, 2021 | 4:35pm EDT
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Public school students in 5
th grade and up will have access to free condoms when they return in the fall, according to the Chicago Public Schools (CPs). The typical fifth-grader is 10 to 11 years old.
“Schools that teach grade 5 and up must maintain a condom availability program” in order to “mitigate the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection, and unintended pregnancy among CPS students,” the CPS website states under “Sexual and Reproductive Health Services.”
A mere 12 out of the 638 Chicago schools are exempt from the new policy, as they only enroll students that are younger than fifth grade.
Condoms Available Starting in 5th Grade in Chicago s Public Schools
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JEFFERSON CITY Missouri s attorney general is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the state s law banning abortions at or after eight weeks of pregnancy.
Passed and signed in 2019, the law has been stopped from going into effect as it navigates through federal courts. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is asking the highest court in the country to review the law, he announced Thursday.
Schmitt, a Republican running for U.S. Senate in 2022, is honing in on a specific part of the law banning abortions if a fetus has Down syndrome.
Among the questions included in Schmitt s petition for court review is whether Missouri s restrictions on abortions performed solely because of Down syndrome are invalid under Roe v. Wade an issue that has split circuit courts.
A three-judge panel found the challenged provisions are unconstitutional because they present substantial obstacles to a minor’s right to an abortion, while providing “incremental benefits at best.”
In this May 17. 2019, abortion opponents kneel in prayer outside Reproductive Health Services, an abortion clinic in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Blake Paterson)
(CN) Alabama cannot enforce a set of amendments to a law allowing a minor to seek approval from a judge instead of her parents for an abortion, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Wednesday in yet another setback to the state’s long-litigated parental consent act.
“We see no problem that the new law helps to cure,” the three-judge panel wrote in the 60-page opinion upholding a lower court order that found the challenged provisions unconstitutional and unenforceable.