Arizona Taliban Wants to Criminalize Women and Their Doctors For Abortion
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Rep. Walt Blackman, R-Snowflake, had vowed to run such a bill late last summer, calling abortion clinics “death factories” and saying women who terminated pregnancies needed to “spend some time in our Arizona penal system.”
At the time, he shrugged off legal protections enshrined in federal law, arguing that Roe v. Wade is only an “opinion” and the U.S. Supreme Court should “honor (Arizona’s) sovereignty.”
House Bill 2650 reflects that view, saying county attorneys must pursue criminal prosecutions “regardless of any contrary or conflicting federal laws, regulations, treaties, court decisions or executive orders.”
On Jan. 7, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University hosted a virtual screening and discussion of “Picture a Scientist” a documentary film that chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for female scientists.
Disputes happen between countries on a daily basis. Unfortunately, some are fought on battlefields and lead to deaths. But most end up in courtrooms or arbitration hearings, and it takes a certain expertise to understand how the laws of other nations work, and modifications that have been made.
On Jan. 15, ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law is hosting the Schiefelbein Global Dispute Resolution Conference.
Topics include Indigenous International Dispute Resolution and COVID-19 Class and Mass Disputes.
The Show spoke with the conference’s organizer, Professor Victoria Sahani who is also an associate dean at the O’Connor College and Professor Betsy Grey, who will be moderating the COVID-19 panel.
Stefanie Lindquist, senior vice president of Global Academic Initiatives at Arizona State University and a Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and School of Politics and Global Studies professor, was featured on several local TV news outlets regarding the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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