A Bleak 24 Hours for Women’s Rights in the US

Expand People rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court while the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra case remained pending, in Washington, U.S., June 25, 2018. © 2018 Reuters It’s open season on reproductive rights in the United States. Again. Five different US states this week moved anti-abortion bills up the legislative food chain, in what seems to be yet another attack on women’s reproductive rights. In Utah and Arkansas, bills banning abortion in the majority of cases after 18 weeks landed with state governors. If signed, they would be among the strictest abortion…

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