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A US COURT has temporarily suspended a new abortion law that was set to come into effect the following day in the state of Missouri.
Kansas City Judge Howard Sachs said the law, which would ban abortions after the eighth week of pregnancy, violates a Supreme Court ruling that guarantees the right to an abortion where a foetus is no longer viable.
“However formulated, the legislation on its face conflicts with the Supreme Court ruling that neither legislative nor judicial limits on abortion can be measured by specified weeks of development of a foetus,” he said.
However, the judge did not block the section of the law that would ban terminations on the basis of foetal sex, race or risk of Down syndrome.
Several US states have launched sweeping attempts to limit abortion rights by adopting laws that ban the practice early in a pregnancy.
The legislation is aimed at triggering legal challenges that would bring the question back to the Supreme Court, which legalised abortion in the landmark Roe v Wade case in 1973.
Reproductive health care group Planned Parenthood applauded the ruling on Twitter.
“What little abortion access in Missouri is left, will stay in place for the time being. In the meantime, we can’t ignore the part of this law that remains in place – which allows politicians to interfere with the patient-provider relationship,” the group’s acting president and CEO Alexis McGill wrote.
“We won’t stop fighting this in court.”
Earlier this year, The Explainer looked at the new abortion legislation introduced in southern US states and the implications it might have on the entire country’s abortion laws. You can listen to it here:
https://soundcloud.com/the-explainer-podcast/why-are-so-many-us-states-tightening-abortion-laws-right-now
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Council think it will have no negative impact?
They’ve clearly not lived near students who love to party. Especially not fun when you have to be up for work!
@Barry: There article said that antisocial behaviour was out of the scope of a planning application. The ‘no negative effect’ was in relation to the building, not the occupants.
@Barry: they actually come down hard on having parties within Trinity Hall, previously you were allowed one over-nihht guest who had to be signed in prior to 11PM and couldn’t re-enter after that, prior to 11 it was 3 guests who had to be gone by 11, at least those were the rules a few years ago.
Hence, parties on site aren’t the issue, coming and going to off-site parties could be an issue however
Have rent caps been considered in terms of this development. University rents are notoriously overpriced fuelling rent increases in the general rental market.
@Chris O’Connor: Trinity only made a net profit of circa 10 million on student accommodation in 2018, so little chance they will support your view
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/why-should-students-living-at-home-subsidise-those-living-in-campus-accommodation-1.4183312
No different to Temple Bar at weekends prior to Covid…. Smell of urine and vomit overpowering, empty cans and bottles, discarded food containers…. You know… The usual… But that was acceptable because the Pubs were creaming it. Now the ball is in a different court…..
Delighted. Temple road is still one of the quietest streets in Dublin. Plenty of room in the area. Students are largely very respectful in my experience.
Trinity should be ashamed of themselves being associated with this disaster of planning
No argument that the vast majority of students are respectful of local residents, but it only takes a few to cause mayhem. The college needs to take a no-tolerance approach to antisocial behaviour. One strike and your out and no return of deposit which should be donated to the local residents association. When mumsy and pop have to fork out a second time I’m sure the ground rules would be explained more forcefully.
Gasly shower of individual’s.
@Peter Bell: You’re not a Trinity graduate yourself?
@Peter Bell: It is usually the ghastly old fart’s who are gasly, especially those who use an apostrophe in a plural word.
The story had significantly less to do with UTIs than the headline may have led one to expect….
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