Now women with these or other urgent reproductive health care needs are too frightened to seek timely reproductive care while providers are increasingly unwilling to offer it, both for fear of being prosecuted.
Tag: U.S. Supreme Court
Wendy Wilton: What about the kids, and what’s best for them?
Vermont’s ruling class is considering dismantling our unique system of education to prevent a few tuition students from selecting religious schools.
Bill Schubart: The temptation in the desert and the overturning of Roe v. Wade
There’s rampant hypocrisy in using religion to enhance privilege, power and profit to engineer a white Christian theocracy in America, in direct contravention both of the Constitution and the most basic tenets of Christianity.
Vermont Conversation: Have Supreme Court justices become 'politicians in robes?'
Rodney Smolla has been analyzing and arguing before the Supreme Court for decades.
Paul Kendall: Our elected representatives need to offset court’s improper decisions
The Supreme Court is not the final “Decider” of what can happen in our country. “We the People” are. We just need to vote in every primary and general election.
The Deeper Dig: Why Vermont’s 150-year-old school tuition system might have to change
According to some legal scholars, the U.S. Supreme Court decision around religious schools in Maine has unique consequences for Vermont — and could require the state to rethink how it funds K-12 education.
Vermonters rally throughout the state as Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
Close to 1,000 Vermonters turned out at protests Friday afternoon and evening in Bennington, Brattleboro, Burlington, Montpelier and Rutland — denouncing the decision and calling for Vermont to further protect abortion rights.
As US Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, abortion remains protected in Vermont
A constitutional amendment to guarantee sexual and reproductive freedoms will be on the ballot in Vermont this November.
‘Significant is an understatement’: Supreme Court decision reverberates across Vermont’s school system
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Maine program that excluded some religious schools from receiving public money. That decision is expected to have consequences in Vermont.
Elayne Clift: The death of stare decisis and the demise of the Fourth Amendment
How has this largely trusted American institution so quickly deteriorated into depravity? How did its majority come to rely on bumper sticker taglines, social media tropes, and arguments so weak and sloppy that they wouldn’t pass muster in a law school?
Bill Schubart: Should we expect a tsunami of unwanted children?
With Roe gone, states will have more control over women’s bodies than a woman herself. Would men tolerate this?
Leahy, Sanders back unsuccessful effort to codify Roe into law
With a conservative U.S. Supreme Court majority poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, Senate Democrats on Wednesday tried and failed to pass federal abortion protections.
With Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe, Vermont’s congressional delegation says it’s time to change filibuster rules
“Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW,” Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted on Monday night.
Narain Batra: If you spoke to God at the 50-yard line, Supreme Court would hear you
For more than six decades, the Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutional principle that the church and the state must remain separate. But times have changed. The Supreme Court now has a conservative outlook.
