(SRN NEWS ) The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban. The court’s liberal majority ruled 4-to-3 that the ban is no longer valid because newer abortion restrictions superseded it. State lawmakers adopted the total ban in 1849. It was in effect until 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe versus […]
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(SRN NEWS ) The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban. The court’s liberal majority ruled 4-to-3 that the ban is no longer valid because newer abortion restrictions superseded it. State lawmakers adopted the total ban in 1849. It was in effect until 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe versus Wade decision legalizing abortion nullified it, and was never repealed. Wisconsin conservatives argued that the high court’s decision in 2022 overturning Roe reactivated the older prohibition. Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul filed suit to nullify it.
( ) Virginia has agreed not to fully enforce a 2020 law banning so-called conversion therapy as part of a lawsuit settlement. The Virginia Department of Health Professions is agreeing with a faith-based conservative group that sued over the statute. Two professional counselors represented by the group argued that the law violated their right to religious freedom. Conversion therapy is the practice of helping young people abandon the homosexual lifestyle. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case from Colorado to decide whether conversion therapy can be banned.
( ) Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine has vetoed a measure that would have required public libraries to keep books promoting the LGBT lifestyle away from small children. He also killed a bill that would have restricted funding for youth homeless shelters if they supported transgender or nonbinary identities. Another measure vetoed by the governor would have restricted the kinds of flags that can be flown in front of Ohio state government buildings, including public schools. That measure was an effort to end the practice of flying Gay Pride flags in front of elementary schools.
( ) Hong Kong’s government is proposing a registration system that would recognize same-sex partnerships formed overseas, granting such couples more rights in the city. In a document submitted to the legislature, the government says the system would allow registration for gay couples who have married, formed civil partnerships or civil unions overseas, provided these relationships were legally recognized in those jurisdictions and one of them is a Hong Kong resident. Gay marriage is not legal in Hong Kong, but LGBT activists are pushing for it.