RELIGION HEADLINES

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(SRN NEWS) – Jewish officials in New York City are expressing outrage over Palestinian protests against Jewish students at the City University of New York.  Several recent Jewish events have attracted pro-Palestinian demonstrators who have chanted “bring the war home” and brandished signs bearing an inverted triangle — the symbol of Hamas.  University officials say most of the protests took place on public property and are outside of the school’s jurisdiction.  Anti-Semitism has been on the rise in the U.S. for several years, but it has surged on college campuses since the Hamas attack on Israel last October.

Two more Ohio abortion restrictions have been blocked in court as the legal impacts of a 2023 constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion continue to be felt.  A Cincinnati judge’s preliminary injunction temporarily halts enforcement of a ban on using telemedicine for medication abortions and a second law prohibiting non-doctors from prescribing the drugs.  Earlier, a Columbus judge blocked enforcement of several other abortion-related laws whose requirements combined to create a 24-hour waiting period for women.

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has vetoed a bill to expand birth control access, while a judge struck down decades-old restrictions on who can perform abortions in the state.  The Republican governor’s veto deflects a measure which would have forced insurance companies to cover up to a year’s supply of birth control at a time.  Meanwhile, Alaska Superior Court Judge Josie Garton found unconstitutional a state law that said only a doctor licensed by the state medical board can perform an abortion in Alaska.

Many Iraqi women fear the country’s parliament will open the door to child marriages as lawmakers consider legal changes that would give religious authorities more power over family law. The push for the changes comes mainly from powerful Shiite Muslim political factions that have increasingly campaigned against what they describe as the West imposing its cultural norms on Muslim-majority Iraq. Opponents warn that the new proposed amendments could allow clerics to approve marriages of girls as young as nine. 

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