Amid the ongoing political crisis in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Friday he had ‘suspected’ the rebellion and revealed that Eknath Shinde, turned rebel, had raised the issue of willing MPs before him. to accompany the BJP. However, Thackeray said such a question “does not even arise”.
The end of constitutional abortion protections in the United States on Friday polarized activists around the world, emboldening abortion opponents even as abortion rights advocates feared it could threaten recent moves towards legalization in their countries. The U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision “shows that these kinds of rights are still at risk of being overridden,” said Ruth Zurbriggen, an Argentine activist and member of the Companion Network of Latin America and the Caribbean, an abortion rights group.