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Tag: abortion
Senate OKs bill to change Randall Reid-Smith’s job title, and bills on abortion, zoning and more
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate enthusiastically passed a bill on Wednesday to elevate the state Culture and History curator to cabinet secretary. It also moved bills concerning […]
Pennsylvania Supreme Court takes aim at politics of cruelty
by Francis Wilkinson The Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a victory to abortion-rights advocates in directing a lower court to consider a challenge to the state’s 1982 prohibition […]
Feb. 11 letters to the editor
Lawmakers can do more to protect women I fail to understand how our Legislature continues to get it so wrong! The women of West Virginia should […]
Two key antiabortion studies retracted as junk science. Will SCOTUS care?
by Michael Hiltzik If the effort to ban medication abortion now before the Supreme Court demonstrates anything, it’s that the damage caused in our society by junk […]
House, Senate move measures dealing with voting and students
MORGANTOWN – A voting measure and a handful of bills dealing with students and students’ healthcare cleared the House and Senate on Tuesday. HJR 21 proposes a […]
Notes from under the gold dome
Some thoughts about a couple of pieces of legislation at the state house: The first is a resolution. Delegate Kayla Young (D-Kanawha) has introduced House Joint Resolution […]
Post-Roe America’s national shame: 65,000 forced pregnancies
by Lisa Jarvis It’s now been about a year and a half since the Supreme Court’s decision to revoke the constitutional right to abortion. Over that time, […]
Barbara Fleischauer takes job with Feminist Majority, won’t seek House of Delegates seat
MORGANTOWN – Former Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer has taken a job with the Feminist Majority, a national women’s rights organization. She informed the Monongalia County Democratic Executive […]
The harsh legal reality of ‘fetal personhood’
by Grace E. Howard On Oct. 17, the North Carolina Court of Appeals terminated a woman’s parental rights because of abuse that occurred when she was 4 […]