Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 was introduced in the Indian Lok Sabha on 8 August 2024. [1] [2] [3] It seeks to repeal Mussalman Wakf Act, 1923 and amend the Waqf Act, 1995. [4] The Act regulates waqf property in India, and defines Waqf as an endowment of movable or immovable property for purposes considered pious, religious, or charitable ...
Illinois passed a bill in 1867 that made abortion and attempted abortion a criminal offense. [8] [5] Around 1870, Illinois passed another law banning the sale of drugs that could cause induced abortions. The law is notable because it allowed an exception for "the written prescription of some well-known and respectable practicing physician".
The Illinois General Assembly advanced a whopping 186 bills out of committee over a three-day stretch last week before a Friday deadline. From a bill dropping pet adoption fees for veterans to one ...
A 5-to-6-week abortion ban that had been passed before Dobbs as a trigger law was struck down in January 2023 by the South Carolina Supreme Court, which said it violated the state constitution. [192] A newly passed 5-to-6-week ban went in effect in August 2023, after the justice who wrote the opinion in the original case retired; the new law ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a think tank that supports abortion rights, 26 states are certain or likely to ban abortion now that Roe has been repealed. Many of the abortion laws that ...
The 101st General Assembly enacted a total of 673 bills into law. [4] Notable among these was the Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (410 ILCS 705), which legalizes and regulates the production, consumption, and sale of cannabis in Illinois. It was approved by both houses by May 31, 2019, and came into effect January 1, 2020. [5] [6]
The Jane Collective or Jane, officially known as the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation, was an underground service in Chicago, Illinois affiliated with the Chicago Women's Liberation Union that operated from 1969 to 1973, a time when abortion was illegal in most of the United States.