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The death penalty or capital punishment is the punishment by death for a crime. Currently 58 countries worldwide allow the death penalty (including the U.S.) while 97 countries have outlawed it. Since the 1970s executions in the U.S. have declined every year. In 2021 five states and the federal government…
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Vice President Kamala Harris responded Tuesday to a new report about a Georgia woman who died after she did not receive emergency abortion-related care soon enough, calling it part of the “consequences of Donald Trump’s actions.”“This young mother should be alive, raising her son, and pursuing her dream of attending nursing school,” Harris said in a statement. “This is exactly what we feared when Roe [v. Wade] was struck down. In more than 20 states, Trump Abortion Bans are preventing doctors from providing basic medical care.”The Monday report from ProPublica detailed how 28-year-old Amber Nicole Thurman died after doctors, concerned about violating Georgia’s abortion laws, took 20 hours to operate on an infection she had from complications from abortion pills. A state panel on maternal health deemed her death “preventable,” ProPublica found, saying it “marks the first time an abortion-related death, officially deemed ‘preventable,’ is coming to public light.”
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@ISIDEWITH asked…13yrs13Y
On June 26, 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the denial of marriage licenses violated the Due Process and the Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The ruling made same sex marriage legal in all 50 U.S. States.
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In April 2021 the legislature of the U.S. State of Arkansas introduced a bill that prohibited doctors from providing gender-transition treatments to people under 18 years old. The bill would make it a felony for doctors to administer puberty blockers, hormones and gender-reaffirming surgery to anyone…
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Satellite data shows about 3,100 buildings have been damaged or destroyed in Lebanon since September 20 as intense waves of attacks have killed more than 1,300 people.Israel is carrying out the Dahiya Doctrine in Lebanon. This calls for indiscriminate attacks on civilians to break the public will—on the literal area of Dahiya, for which the doctrine was named, and still the Western press is ignoring it.It’s clear now unless you’re dense that they are target civilian areas randomly as punishment.
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Russia has made "a principle decision" to remove the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations, Putin's envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kamulov said on Friday, according to Russian state media TASS.Russia's foreign ministry and security service "are putting finishing legal touches" on the removal, said Kamulov, adding that the final decision will "hopefully" be announced soon.The Taliban was added to Russia's blacklist in 2003 for backing separatists in the North Caucasus.Lavrov also praised the current Afghan leadership for its fight against drugs and the Islamic State, while not expressly mentioning the Taliban.Russia has slowly been normalizing relations with the Taliban after it seized power in Afghanistan in 2021 following the withdrawal of the U.S. forces after 20 years of war. Since then, the Taliban has imposed harsh restrictive laws on women in particular, including banning them from speaking in public.
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