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US President Joe Biden speaks at a High School in Cleveland, on July 6, 2022
US President Joe Biden is to sign an executive order offering protection to millions of women in the country who are being denied an abortion, it was revealed today.
The move is the first step of the White House’s battle with the Supreme Court after it last month struck down landmark legislation legalising the essential medical procedure nationwide.
The Court’s ruling has left individual states deciding their own rules on abortion rights.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
Police guidelines suggesting home searches and digital checks for women who experience pregnancy loss under suspicion of having broken the outdated 1967 Abortion Act have sparked uproar, writes PEOPLES’ HEALTH DISPATCH