Supreme Court lets lower-court rulings in lesbian custody dispute stand

Chris Graham

The latest attempt of a Virginia woman to have the United States Supreme Court overrule a series of rulings in a long-running custody dispute involving her former domestic partner failed Monday. The Supreme Court let stand the lower-court rulings that recognized that a Vermont court has jurisdiction in the case involving custody of a child…

Virginia Supreme Court affirms ruling in lesbian-custody case

Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Virginia Supreme Court today affirmed an appeals-court ruling granting a woman full visitation rights to the daughter that she had been raising with her former lesbian partner. The decision in the Jenkins v. Miller case also affirms that federal and state laws governing child-custody disputes apply equally to gay,…

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One year after Dobbs: Women have to wait until their life is at risk to obtain an abortion

Sylvia Ghazarian

In the year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision to overturn Roe, access to abortion has been severely restricted, and its effects have continued to grow, including more individuals having to wait till their life is at risk in order to obtain an abortion.