RELIGION HEADLINES
Written by on September 17, 2024
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(SRN NEWS) – A state judge has struck down North Dakota’s ban on abortion, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before an unborn baby could survive outside the womb. North Dakota no longer has any abortion clinics, but District Judge Bruce Romanick’s ruling would affect doctors in hospitals who want to perform abortions. State Attorney General Drew Wrigley is promising to appeal, calling the decision flawed. Abortion activists say there are no plans to re-open any abortion clinics in North Dakota at this time.
A resolution introduced by Congressional Democrats states that hospital emergency rooms must provide emergency abortions when a woman’s health or life is at risk, overriding state abortion bans. The resolution has no weight of law and has little chance of passing a Republican-controlled House in an election year. Democrats say they will introduce a Senate version of the resolution soon. Federal law already requires that patients who show up at emergency rooms receive stabilizing treatment for medical emergencies.
The Supreme Court of Maryland is considering the constitutionality of a 2023 law that ended the state’s statute of limitations for child sexual abuse lawsuits. The law was passed following a report that exposed widespread wrongdoing by priests within the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. The state’s highest court heard oral arguments last week and is expected to deliver a ruling in coming months. Most of the arguments focused on the intent of the Maryland legislature when it passed a preceding law in 2017 that allowed victims to sue until they turned 38.
A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part of a settlement with students and parents. The agreement settles a lawsuit that argued that the district unlawfully decided to limit access to dozens of titles containing LGBT content. Florida recently passed a law that allows parents to get pornographic and obscene books out of school libraries. The plaintiffs in this case argued that some of the books that were removed were not actually pornographic.
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