Jacob Cao
Jacob Cao is the son of Brenda Cao. Jacob s high school activities included Jazz Band (9-12); Key Club (10-12); Marching Band (9); Winter Percussion (9); Lacrosse (9-12); Swim Team (12); Environmental Club (10-12); Nation Honor Society (11 & 12); Math Team (11); Science Bowl (11 & 12); Ocean Bowl (11 & 12).
Other activities included FIRST Robotics; Skills USA; Cutis Lake soup kitchen volunteer; Sanford Mainers volunteer; Holy Family Church altar server; Holy Family Church food pantry volunteer.
Jacob was accepted to the University of Maine; University of New Hampshire; University of New Haven and the Maine Maritime Academy. He plans to major in mechanical engineering technology and plans to attend the University of Maine, in Orono, Maine.
General Eric Schmitt says he plans to appeal to the Supreme Court. Author: Associated Press, Jim Salter Published: 11:36 AM CDT June 9, 2021 Updated: 11:36 AM CDT June 9, 2021
A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday blocked Missouri from enforcing a sweeping state abortion law that bans the procedures at or after eight weeks of pregnancy.
A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis heard arguments in September in the legal battle over the 2019 law. The measure also would prohibit a woman from having an abortion because the fetus has Down syndrome.
Yamelsie Rodríguez, president and CEO of Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, called the ruling “a critical victory for Missourians.”
Weeks after the Supreme Court said it would hear the case of a Mississippi law that could severely limit the right to abortion, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled in favor of abortion rights on a very similar law, upholding a preliminary injunction against a 2019 Missouri bill that sought to prohibit some pre-viability abortions and expanding its reach to include a ban on abortions “solely based” on prenatal indicators of Down.
Court Blocks Implementation of Missouri Abortion Law The last Planned Parenthood in Missouri / Getty Images Graham Piro • June 9, 2021 4:50 pm
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A federal appeals court blocked the implementation of a sweeping Missouri law that would have banned all abortions that occurred after eight weeks of pregnancy or were based on fetal disability diagnoses.
A three-judge panel from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decided against allowing the law to go into effect as legal challenges work their way through the courts. The law, passed in 2019 and titled the Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act, includes a provision completely banning abortion in the state in the event that the Supreme Court overturns