All posts tagged "Femmes"

Houston (AFP) - A 29-year-old Texas woman has been sentenced to death for killing a pregnant acquaintance in October 2020 to extract and steal the fetus inside her womb. Taylor Parker's sentencing was handed down Wednesday in Texas, following several weeks of trial that began in September, according to court documents. Over months Parker had told her boyfriend and her relatives that she was pregnant. She posted about it on social media and bought a fake silicone belly. It was all a lie. The truth was that she had had a hysterectomy and could not have a child. On October 9, 2020, Parker went to......

Washington (AFP) - Thousands of people, including many of Iranian origin, marched Saturday in Washington to show support for nationwide protests in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini last month. They chanted slogans such as "Women, life, freedom" and "Justice for Iran" as they walked from the National Mall -- the vast green expanse that is home to the Washington Monument -- to the White House. Siamak Aram, one of the organizers, said attendance would surpass 10,000 by the end of the procession and that this was the fifth such rally in Washington, in solidarity with women-led protests in ......

Lexington (United States) (AFP) - Leah Martin ended up in the emergency room "because of the immense stress" of being denied an abortion in her US home state of Kentucky. Due to this "horrible" experience, she is now going door-to-door against a state ballot initiative that would cement Kentucky's near total ban on abortions. Scott Van Neste, a pastor, sharply opposes the procedure. Surrounded by his eight children, Van Neste has begun attending demonstrations to protect the state's anti-abortion law. Surprisingly, the two have something in common: They are new to the activist sphere. Newfound......

Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court's overturning of America's constitutional right to abortion gives all 50 states the freedom to ban the procedure, with nearly half expected to do so in some form. Automatic bansThirteen states, mostly in the conservative and religious south of the country, have in recent years adopted so-called "trigger" laws to come into force virtually automatically after the decision was handed down. And as of Friday evening, at least seven states had banned the procedure: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.  Other states, suc......