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A Kentucky woman who filed a class action last week challenging the state’s near-total ban on abortion is no longer pregnant, her lawyers said Tuesday, calling for more plaintiffs to carry the case forward. Lawyers for the woman at Planned Parenthood and the ACLU said in a statement that the woman learned her embryo no longer had cardiac activity.
The news comes a day after Texas’s Supreme Court rejected a woman’s bid for a court order allowing her to get an emergency abortion under the state’s medical exception for life-threatening emergencies, saying she and her doctor had not made the case she qualified.
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Vice Chancellor Travis Laster of Delaware Chancery Court posted a defense on Saturday of the character of his longtime friend Liz Magill, who just resigned as the president of the University of Pennsylvania after widely-criticized Congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus. The judge was promptly lambasted by commenters, including some who accused him of capitalizing on the prestige of his office. The controversy, writes Alison Frankel, raises important questions about when and whether judges should weigh in on hot button issues. In an email, Laster told Frankel that the reaction to his post had been “more immediate and intense” than he usually received but that he understood why people were “angry and hurt.”
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