The United States Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the Title X cases involving the Trump administration’s “Gag Rule” prohibiting federally funded family
When Jefferson was born, on April 13, 1743, the Church of England was the established church in colonial Virginia, and Jefferson’s early religious upbringing was relatively conventional. He was baptized, married, and buried in the Anglican or Episcopal Church. Anglican ministers provided his early education, and, as was common for a member of the gentry, he was elected as a young man to an Anglican vestry, both a civil and religious post in pre-revolutionary Virginia.
While attending the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg (1760–1762), Jefferson began to question traditional religion. Studying under William Small, a Scottish Enlightenment professor and the only member of the faculty who was not an Anglican minister, Jefferson developed an affinity for John Locke, Viscount Bolingbroke, and other Enlightenment thinkers who did not profess standard religious doctrine.
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in a case over a Mississippi law banning abortion in most circumstances before an unborn baby is viable.
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For four years, the liberal media would scream from the rooftops about how President Trump was “destroying our democratic institutions.” But ABC, CBS, and NBC were nowhere to be seen Wednesday night following the first meeting and swearing-in of President Biden’s commission to reshape the Supreme Court in the way only radical liberals benefitted from (either with court-packing or taking away Trump’s justice appointments).
Instead of covering Biden’s real attempt to destroy an American democratic institution, ABC’s
World News Tonight and the
CBS Evening News screeched about Republican opposition to a different commission to investigate the Capitol riot (which was already being investigated). And NBC took a tour of a Purell factory.
Here’s where things are at in the US on abortion.
What is Roe v Wade?
It’s the landmark Supreme Court decision that established a constitutional nationwide right to abortion in 1973.
It allows American women the right to have an abortion within the first three months of pregnancy, or the first trimester.
A 2018 file photo of supporters at a rally held by Planned Parenthood, commemorating the 45th anniversary of the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling.
AP Jane Roe - a pseudonym - was an unmarried pregnant woman who filed a suit challenging Texas abortion laws. Henry Wade was the defending district attorney.