Suit against Debra Lynch is latest from Texas’s Republican attorney general amid ongoing attacks on abortion pills
As part of its ongoing crusade against abortion pills, Texas sued a nurse practitioner on Tuesday, accusing her of shipping pills into Texas in defiance of the state’s abortion ban.
The nurse practitioner, Debra Lynch, operates a Delaware-based group called Her Safe Harbor, which mails abortion pills to women living in states with abortion bans. Now, Texas wants a court to block Lynch from “performing, inducing or attempting abortions” in Texas, on the grounds that Texas law only permits physicians to facilitate abortions in cases of medical emergencies.
Continue reading...People urged to stand up against populism and antisemitism as the world marks International Holocaust Memorial Day
Survivors of Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp, laid flowers and candles at the memorial site on Tuesday, as commemorations marking its liberation 81 years ago took place around Europe and beyond.
Marking International Holocaust Memorial Day, Jewish leaders across the continent warned against forgetting the extermination of millions, while some of the few remaining survivors urged ordinary people to stand up against populism and extremism.
Continue reading...Critics say government concealing true cost of deal ‘despite being forced to admit financial burden will grow year on year’
Ministers are under growing pressure to end the “secrecy” around the UK’s deal with the US over the cost of medicines, which critics claim is “a Trump shakedown of the NHS”.
MPs from Labour and several opposition parties want the government to publish its impact assessment of the agreement it reached last month with Donald Trump’s administration.
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TUCSON (ANP) - In de Amerikaanse grensstaat Arizona is iemand ernstig gewond geraakt na een schietincident waar de grenspolitie bij betrokken was. Dat meldt de lokale politie aan NBC News. In de VS ontstond de afgelopen tijd grote onrust door fatale schietpartijen waarbij federale agenten betrokken waren. Over wat precies is voorgevallen in Pima County bestaat nog onduidelijkheid.
In de Amerikaanse grensstaat Arizona is iemand ernstig gewond geraakt na een schietincident waar de grenspolitie bij betrokken was. Dat meldt de lokale politie aan NBC News. In de VS ontstond de afgelopen tijd grote onrust door fatale schietpartijen waarbij federale agenten betrokken waren. Over wat precies is voorgevallen in Pima County bestaat nog onduidelijkheid.
