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Why some states are requiring ID to see adult content, porn online
Jan 29, 2024 · In 2022, Louisiana became the first state to introduce and pass a law requiring websites that host adult content to verify that users are over 18 years old. Last year, six more states, including Virginia, passed similar laws, in some cases directly copying the language used in the Louisiana bill. According to the Free Speech Coalition, the ...
Why Congress did not codify abortion rights after Roe v. Wade
Jan 26, 2022 · Wade established the constitutional right to an abortion before fetal viability. There have been congressional attempts to pass a constitutional amendment overturning Roe, as well as efforts to codify the decision. All have failed. Along the way, abortion has transformed national politics and created a gulf between voters and party leaders to ...
The history of Donald Trump’s sexual assault allegations - The 19th
Oct 26, 2023 · November 5, 2024, 11:01 p.m. PT. Donald Trump has been elected to another term in the White House, as Americans chose someone whose time in national politics has been marked with a number of accusations of sexual misconduct, including one that emerged just two weeks before the 2024 election. A month before the 2016 presidential election, a ...
School dress codes challenged by students, activists - The 19th
Jan 12, 2022 · But advocacy groups, lawmakers and students, in mostly Southern states including Georgia, Louisiana and Florida, are challenging rigid dress codes with lawsuits, policy changes and protests. The 19th thanks our sponsors. Become one. Some efforts have been successful, and others are still making their way through courts.
Child marriage is still prevalent in the U.S. Here’s why. - The 19th
Jul 5, 2023 · The 19th thanks our sponsors. Become one. Nearly 300,000 minors — the vast majority of them girls — were legally married in the United States between 2000 and 2018, according to a 2021 study. Child marriage is defined as any marriage where at least one of the parties is under the age of 18. It was legal in all 50 states until 2018.
The 19th Explains: What you need to know about Project 2025
July 16, 2024, 3:00 a.m. PT. Updated. August 21, 2024, 9:28 a.m. PT. After Project 2025 burst into the nation’s political consciousness during the summer, Republican President-elect Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the 920-page policy blueprint for his second term. Much of Project 2025, authored by the conservative Heritage ...
Forced sterilization is legal in 31 states, new report shows - The 19th
Published. February 4, 2022, 9:08 a.m. PT. A new report shows that 31 states and the District of Columbia have laws allowing permanent forced sterilizations. Little discussed and largely unmonitored, the issue grabbed national attention last summer when the pop star Britney Spears testified that she was forced to use birth control by her father.
Biden administration releases new transgender federal prison policy
Jan 26, 2022 · The new policy moves toward fulfilling Biden’s campaign promise to combat widespread abuse facing transgender people behind bars. An NBC News investigation in 2020 found that of the nearly 5,000 transgender people detained in state prisons, just 15 total had been housed according to their lived genders, exposing them …
Here’s where Tim Walz stands on six key issues - The 19th
Aug 6, 2024 · Transgender journalist Imara Jones praised the choice in a tweet Tuesday. “Tim Walz signed a bill making Minnesota a sanctuary state for transgender people, as well as safeguarding gender affirming care,” Jones wrote. “His nomination sends a powerful signal to the trans community at a moment of unprecedented attacks.”.