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Alabama Supreme Court

The 'New Jane Crow' and American Women's Civil Rights

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 03.17.2013 | Politics
Read More: Abortion Rights, Personhood, Reproductive Rights, Paul Ryan, Sanctity-of-Human-Life-Act, Alabama Supreme Court, Civil Rights, Politics News
Soraya Chemaly

The creep of personhood results in laws and actions that take away women's constitutional personhood. There is no (gender-neutral) way to extend personhood rights to fertilized eggs without depriving women of the same rights.

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Laura Bassett

Alabama Court To Consider Whether Meth Lab Law Applies To Fetuses

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.30.2012 | Politics
Read More: Alabama Chemical Endangerment of Children, Alabama-Abortion, Video, Alabama Supreme Court, Alabama Personhood, Alabama Chemical Endangerment Case, Alabama Personhood Case, Politics News

An anti-abortion litigation group filed a brief with the Alabama Supreme Court on Friday that urges the court to apply the state's "chemical endangerm...

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'Ten Commandments Judge' Avoids Runoff With GOP Opponents

AP | BOB JOHNSON | Posted 05.14.2012 | Politics
Read More: Alabama, Video, Harry Lyon, Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore Wins Primary, Ten Commandments Judge, Alabama Judge, Republican, Roy Moore Ten Commandments, Roy Moore, Ten Commandments, Politics News

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who refused to move a Ten Commandments display from a courthouse is a s...

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Judge Who Started Firestorm Over Ten Commandments Seeks Comeback

AP | JIM VAN ANGLEN | Posted 01.22.2012 | Politics
Read More: Judge Roy Moore, Roy Moore Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore Ten Commandment, Roy Moore Alabama, Chief Justice Roy Moore, Ten Commandments Roy Moore, Alabama, Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore 10 Commandments, 10 Commandments Roy Moore, 10 Commandments, Roy Moore Chief Justice, Roy Moore, Separation of Church and State, Ten Commandments, Roy Moore Supreme Court, Video, Politics News

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The former top Alabama judge known for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse said Tuesday ...

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Sex and Sin

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Sexual Freedom, Alabama Supreme Court, Masturbation, Montgomery Highway vs. City of Hoover, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

Suppose the state made it a crime to masturbate. It is difficult to believe that a nation dedicated to "the pursuit of happiness" and the freedom, autonomy and privacy of the individual could possibly allow such a law.

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