SCOTUS Issued a Blow to Abortion Pills by Mail, But Advocates Arenât Giving Up
Reproductive justice activists are urging Biden to back access to abortion pills after a setback from the Supreme Court.
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There has been a quiet revolution in access to abortion pills in the United States over the past six months â and whether it continues depends on the new Biden-Harris administration.
Last July, a federal court suspended a rule that requires patients to go to a health center in person to pick up mifepristone, the first pill in a two-step process for medication abortion. The court sided with SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, allowing providers to mail mifepristone during the COVID-19 pandemic. But on January 12, the Supreme Court reinstated the rules, leaving in doubt the future of a landscape which advocates like Elisa Wells, co-founder of the medication abortion adv
SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general standing up for voting rights in an amicus brief
Screenshot of Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva at a press conference in August 2020.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) Claims of excessive force, retaliation, and other misconduct by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will be probed during a civil rights investigation, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Friday.
Becerra called the inquiry into the nation’s largest sheriff’s department an investigation into the “pattern and practice of unconstitutional policing.”
“There are serious concerns and reports that accountability and adherence to legitimate policing practices have lapsed at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department,” Becerra said during a media briefing. “We are undertaking this investigation to determine if LASD has violated the law or the rights of the people of Los Angeles County.”
After a decade of ups and downs on the question of federal preemption, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (“FMSCA”) decision.
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