Demonstrators march and gather near the state capitol following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Friday, June 24, 2022, in Austin, Texas.
A JUDGE has given a Texas woman permission to have an abortion in the first major challenge to a state ban on abortion brought in last year.
Over a dozen US states have banned abortions since the US Supreme Court overturned 1973’s Roe v Wade judgement last year, ending abortion access as a federal right.
Texas’s ban is among the country’s strictest, with a potential life sentence for doctors who carry out abortions.
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
Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
