(SRN NEWS) – A long-dormant Nevada law requiring parents to be notified before an underage girl can have an abortion will not take effect this month following a federal judge’s ruling. The 1985 statute has never before been enforced in Nevada because of court rulings that found it was unconstitutional based on Roe versus Wade. […]
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(SRN NEWS) – A long-dormant Nevada law requiring parents to be notified before an underage girl can have an abortion will not take effect this month following a federal judge’s ruling. The 1985 statute has never before been enforced in Nevada because of court rulings that found it was unconstitutional based on Roe versus Wade. The ban on the old legislation was set to expire, now that Roe has been repealed, but abortion activists appealed. That led U.S. District Judge Anne Traum to stay the law while Planned Parenthood petitions the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a long-term injunction.
( ) The Trump administration says the University of Pennsylvania violated laws guaranteeing women equal opportunities in athletics by letting a male swimmer compete on the women’s team and use female locker rooms and bathrooms. The administration’s statement focuses on Lia Thomas, a man who is living as a woman, who competed for the Ivy League school in 2022. He is the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division One title. The Education Department’s Division for Civil Rights is charging Penn under Title Nine.
( ) North Dakota’s Republican governor has vetoed bills to further restrict sexual content in libraries and to create a private school voucher program — two issues that have seen widespread support by GOP governors in other states. The North Dakota legislature failed to override Kelly Armstrong’s veto. The library bill would have expanded the state’s 2023 prohibition on explicit sexual material in public libraries to school districts, and require those entities to have policies for relocating such material to an area not easily accessible to minors.
( ) A coalition of survivors of clergy sexual abuse is demanding that Catholic cardinals selecting the next pope pick a man who will adopt a universal zero-tolerance policy on abuse. The group End Clergy Abuse has issued an open letter to the cardinals who are meeting informally before the start of the May 7th conclave. Meanwhile, SNAP, the main U.S.-based survivor group, is identifying cardinals who themselves have problematic records on clergy sex abuse, highlighting a new level of scrutiny of all possible contenders for the papacy.