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Newsweek
14 hours ago
- Politics
- Newsweek
Ohio Bill Seeks to Ban and Criminalize Abortion: What We Know
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Republican lawmakers in Ohio have introduced a bill that seeks to ban almost all abortions in the state and criminalize the procedure. State Representatives Levi Dean and Johnathan Newman introduced the Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act on Wednesday. The bill would grant legal protections from the moment of fertilization, meaning abortion would be treated as homicide, in a challenge to an abortion rights amendment to the State Constitution that voters approved in 2023. Newsweek reached out to Dean and Newman for comment via email. Why It Matters Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, anti-abortion activists have been pushing measures to enshrine the rights of fetuses in a bid to end abortion nationwide. Ohio voters enshrined abortion protections in 2023, prompting judges to strike down abortion bans in the state. Abortion is legal up to 20 weeks from fertilization in Ohio. While Republicans in Ohio have historically passed abortion restrictions and bans, legislation in the past has been aimed at penalizing abortion providers rather than the people who have them. But the new bill, if enacted, would change that. It could also affect in vitro fertilization (IVF) and some forms of contraception. Demonstrators gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health on December 1, 2021. Demonstrators gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health on December 1, To Know End Abortion Ohio, which collaborated with Dean and Newman to draft the bill, says the constitutional amendment approved in 2023 violates the U.S. Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. Austin Beigel, the president of End Abortion Ohio, told Newsweek the bill is "a very, very simple piece of legislation" that "grants personhood to all human beings." The bill would ensure that "from the moment of fertilization, when you have a new, distinct living organism, you have personhood rights, and you have the equal protection of the law," he said. "So the same laws that protect a born infant will protect that same person inside their mother's womb." Beigel added that while the bill does not explicitly mention IVF, the "natural consequence of personhood rights for all human beings includes those currently living in petri dishes and cryochambers across our country and our state." Abortion rights advocates say the bill goes against the will of Ohio voters. "Ohioans spoke loud and clear that we want our access to reproductive healthcare protected, not attacked when we passed the Ohio Reproductive Freedom Amendment in 2023," Kellie Copeland, the executive director of Abortion Forward, which worked to pass the amendment, said in a statement to Newsweek. Beigel said that his organization is not concerned about going against what voters want because "the will of the majority of voters was for something evil." "They were asking for the right to murder another so we are proud to stand against evil, even when evil is the majority," he added. Other groups that support abortion bans—Ohio Right to Life and Citizens for Christian—do not support the legislation, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer. What People Are Saying Abortion Forward executive director Kellie Copeland, in a statement to Newsweek: "Voters in Ohio sent a clear message in 2023 we must be free to make our own decisions, define our own path in life, and safely care for our families and communities. Deciding if, when, or how to become a parent is one of the most important decisions we make. These decisions should be up to each individual Ohioan, not government. "These out-of-touch anti-abortion extremists want to give legal rights to fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses. This would strip Ohioans' ability to make decisions for our lives, health, and well-being, including banning all abortion care, banning some types of birth control, and denying IVF treatment that helps people build their families. "Bills like this embolden law enforcement to surveil and investigate people for their actions during pregnancy – families and loved ones could be targeted by law enforcement for helping someone access an abortion, miscarriage care, or even IVF. Black people, other people of color and immigrants are most likely to be targeted, questioned, and harmed by policies like this." End Abortion Ohio, in a statement: "Ohio's pro-abortion constitutional amendment should be treated as null and void because it flagrantly violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by denying preborn persons the right to life. In appealing to the 14th Amendment, the Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act appeals to a higher law; the U.S. Constitution. "But even so, we appeal to the highest law; the law of God. In the Holy Scriptures, All men are created equal, being made in the image of God." Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis told The Cincinnati Enquirer: "We have never supported criminalizing a woman for having an abortion, and we never will. It's completely out of bounds and inappropriate." Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin, in a statement: "Mere days after an anti-abortion fanatic targeted and killed reproductive rights advocates, Republicans in the Ohio legislature have decided that women who receive abortions are the actual threat. Ohio Republicans intend to charge women who receive abortions with homicide, ban IVF, and even some forms of contraception, as they proudly go against the people of Ohio. Nearly three years ago, Donald Trump opened the door to these extreme anti-choice policies through the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Now, with Trump's blessing, the far-right has declared war on women's rights." What Happens Next Beigel said the legislation has garnered seven co-sponsors so far. But while Republicans control both chambers of the Ohio Legislature, it remains to be seen whether the bill will have enough support to pass. Republican House Speaker Matt Huffman told the Enquirer it's too early to know where House Republicans stand on the bill.
Boston Globe
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Rigmor Newman, behind-the-scenes fixture of the jazz world, dies at 86
She later managed the Nicholas Brothers, a gravity-defying dance duo that dazzled cinema audiences starting in the late 1930s, and became heroes to many Black Americans. Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers became her second husband. Advertisement Among her many professional incarnations, Ms. Newman served as the executive director of Jazz Interactions, a nonprofit organization promoting jazz throughout the New York metropolitan area, which Joe Newman helped found in the early 1960s. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up After their divorce in the mid-1970s, Rigmor Newman began a relationship with Nicholas in 1979. She also started managing Nicholas and his brother, Fayard. As a blue-eyed Nordic woman who spent much of her life and career among Black musicians and performers, Ms. Newman found that race was often at the front of her mind, her daughter said. She married Joe Newman in 1961, at a time when interracial marriage was still outlawed in many states, and she often accompanied him on tour with Basie's band, including bus trips through the Jim Crow-era South. Advertisement 'She was absolutely aware of the symbolism,' Annie Newman said in an interview. 'It felt very natural to her to do what she thought was right.' A taciturn Swede, Ms. Newman was not given to grand pronouncements. Instead, she fought intolerance in subtler ways. Among her efforts to bring new exposure to her second husband's dance duo, she helped produce 'Nicholas Brothers: We Sing and We Dance,' a 1992 documentary about the duo that detailed their fight against the racism in Hollywood, which eventually contributed to stalling their career. The film, which won a CableACE Award from the National Cable Television Association, showcased the brothers' wildly acrobatic tap dance routines, including one in the 1943 film 'Stormy Weather' in which they bounded across table tops to the accompaniment of the Cab Calloway orchestra's performance of 'Jumpin' Jive.' Interviewed for the documentary, no less than Mikhail Baryshnikov called the brothers 'the most amazing, amazing dancers I've ever seen in my life -- ever.' Ms. Newman also brought the Nicholas Brothers back into the spotlight by arranging theater, television, and film appearances. The duo ultimately received Kennedy Center Honors in 1991 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame three years later. Rigmor Marta Alfredsson was born May 9, 1938, in Udevalla, Sweden, the middle of three children of Alfred and Annie (Angelique) Alfredsson. Her father was an artist. Growing up in Gothenburg, she was admitted to Sigrid Rudebecks Gymnasium, a prestigious secondary school. In 1957, she represented Sweden in the Miss Europe contest. She met Joe Newman when the Basie band performed in Gothenburg and she asked for his autograph. Advertisement Over the years, Rigmor Newman produced concerts in association with George Wein, the Boston-based impresario who all but invented the modern jazz festival. As an independent producer, she mounted jazz, classical, and dance performances at Town Hall, Symphony Space, Lincoln Center, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. In the mid-1970s, she opened Storyville, a jazz club on the East Side of Manhattan, with Wein. She eventually took the venue over and booked acts including drummer and composer Max Roach, saxophonist Dexter Gordon, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. In addition to her daughter, Ms. Newman leaves a sister, Britt-Marianne Hayes and a grandson. Her son, Fredrik Newman, died in 2020. Harold Nicholas died in 2000. In a career spent behind the scenes, perhaps Rigmor Newman's most public act was posing with Joe Newman on the cover of his album 'Counting Five in Sweden,' released in 1960. The photograph featured the couple seated and smiling beside a statue in front of an ornate building in Gothenburg while Joe Newman plays with her left hand, as if demonstrating trumpet fingerings. Given the racial climate of the day, the image was a symbolic triumph. 'They posed together because that was her statement about her belief in civil rights,' Annie Newman said. 'She showed what she believed through her actions.' This article originally appeared in
West Australian
4 days ago
- Business
- West Australian
OATSPO 2024 results released by Grain Industry of Western Australia
The final field trial findings of OATSPO 2024, developed at a trial site near Narrogin, have been released by the Grain Industry Association of Western Australia. An agronomic trial showcase that took place in Highbury, near Narrogin, the second OATSPO was designed to introduced the latest oat research to new and experienced oat and hay growers while gathered in one location. More than 250 people attended the event that led attendees through trials, including yield trials, hay quality management, hay variety selection, broadleaf and grass herbicide options, breeding trials, crop competition, fungicide products, Goldie and Bannister agronomy, and nitrogen and phosphorus strategy. GIWA oat council chair and Varley grower Anna-Lisa Newman said OATSPO provided a networking and learning opportunity, as well as the chance to challenge understanding of the current oat industry. 'A critical element to industry growth and sustainability is understanding how breeding, farm inputs, and soil health can impact crop potential,' she said. 'OATSPO brought together a collective of R&D organisations on an impressive scale to showcase the work currently being undertaken in the industry.' Trials were conducted by CSBP, InterGrain, the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, ConsultAg, and Nutrien. 'Observing the support OATSPO (had) from growers, researchers and industry confirmed there is a real need to share these insights,' Ms Newman said. 'Oats are very important in WA crop rotation programs, and through the (processed oat partnership) . . . we not only demonstrate how we can be developing and growing it more efficiently, but showcase the opportunities there are for oats beyond the farm gate.' The trials showcased in OATSPO were undertaken by the WA government-funded industry leader the POP, the Grains Research Development Corporation, and other members of the oat supply chain.
9 News
7 days ago
- Politics
- 9 News
Three strikes and you're out for social housing tenants in Queensland
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here Public housing tenants in Queensland will once again face a "three strikes and you're out" policy for bad behaviour, with bans to be imposed for serious offences. The policy was first introduced by the former Newman government, but the new rules will be even tougher with evictions to apply to everyone in the home. Starting July 1, tenants who receive breaches for general nuisance, such as loud parties and music or drunk and disorderly behaviour, will get two warnings before being evicted on the third breach. Minister for Housing and Public Works and Minister for Youth, Sam O'Connor. (Jamila Filippone) For more serious offences such as aggressive and obscene language aimed at others, intimidating behaviour, deliberate damage to the property and hooning, after three warnings, tenants will not only be evicted but also banned from public housing for 12 months. For the most severe offences, such as criminal activity, significant property damage or threatening housing department staff, evictions will be immediate and come with a two-year ban. When there are breaches at a property, all tenants will receive a warning and ultimately face eviction. "We think it's only fair that we have our current tenants respect the properties that they have," Housing Minister Sam O'Connor said. "We want to make sure that if there are multiple tenants and one of them is doing the wrong thing, that can be raised within the household and resolved within the household." He said housing department staff could make exemptions in instances of domestic violence. queensland national housing welfare CONTACT US Auto news:Is this the next Subaru WRX? Mysterious performance car teased.
Sydney Morning Herald
13-06-2025
- Sydney Morning Herald
Fighting back against online predators
Despite improved home security and CCTV, every house is exposed to online attacks at any time. A computer is the modern-day version of a skeleton key that can open any lock. Which is why Sampson wants to tell his story. It is about one case in which he says he was a bit player. On March 3, 2007, Sampson was on call when he was told to head to Rosebud Police Station to carry out an arrest warrant from South Australia. It was for the murder of a 15-year-old girl killed on a beach at Horseshoe Bay, about 80 kilometres from Adelaide. Sampson knew it well. His family had owned a holiday house there, and he spent most summers on that beach. When police raided the unit, Garry Francis Newman was in his lounge room chatting online to a 14-year-old girl in Perth. Newman was 48. For 18 months, Newman had pretended to be a teenage rock guitarist as he pursued Carly Ryan online. He killed her when his pathetic masquerade was exposed. 'Newman was on the computer in the lounge room,' Sampson says. 'His son was there. Newman was clearly grooming another victim.' When the police officer examined the computer, he found three usernames: Brando, Gary and Gotza. The user Brando was logged in. When Sampson accessed the computer, there was a live chat on screen. It was clear the middle-aged man had taught himself to communicate as a teenager using adolescent slang and computer abbreviations. It was also clear he had many identities. It was found he had 200 identities. One was Brandon Kane, a Texan musician living in Melbourne. First 'Kane' chatted to a South Australian girl who was a friend of Carly's. Soon, Ryan was also in the chat. It is a classic predator move – gain trust through a friend, club or online social group. The target accepts the online identity because their friends appear to know him. Kane flattered and flirted with Carly as they talked about meeting. She wanted the guitarist to come to her home in Stirling, near Adelaide, for her 15th birthday on the 2007 Australia Day long weekend. Kane said he couldn't because he was flying back to the US for a brief visit, but his dad, Shane, would like to come over and meet her. Carly's mother, Sonya, was eventually persuaded to add the interstate guest. Shane turned up, and it was soon clear he was a creep. A court would later hear that Carly said the middle-aged man had been 'feeling her up'. Sonya kicked him out and followed up by emailing him, telling him not to come anywhere near her daughter again, and if he did, she would go to the police. She would later discover Shane had bought the 15-year-old sexually provocative clothing. Newman returned home filthy that his plans had been thwarted. Within three weeks, using his cyber character Shane, he had persuaded Carly to meet, this time near Horseshoe Bay. Carly, knowing her mother would never agree, told her she was going to have a sleepover at a friend's house. Newman drove nearly 850 kilometres to kill. It was not a crime of passion. 'His anger fuelled a sense of vengeance,' Sampson says. On February 20, sitting in the dunes, Newman gave the vulnerable teenager marijuana, then hit her in the head with a rock. He turned her facedown, pressing her face in the sand to smother her. Convinced she was dead, he began to walk away. 'Then she coughed, and so he came back to drag her into the shallows to drown her,' says Sampson. Newman had convinced himself he was smart by manipulating kids (he had earlier threatened online to butcher a girl in Singapore who saw through his tactics). But investigator Sampson says: 'He was an idiot who left a trail of evidence.' So much so, he was raided and arrested at Rosebud less than two weeks later. Sampson says that even though Newman faced a mountain of evidence, 'he remained defiant and decided to plead not guilty'. When the officer was testifying in a small court, Sampson recalls: 'Newman would lean towards you and glare to try and intimidate. He was an absolute prick.' He even chose to glare at the judge – not a good idea, as she was the one who decided his sentence. In her final remarks, Justice Trish Kelly of the South Australian Supreme Court, didn't miss. 'It was a terribly cruel thing you did to this beautiful, impressionable 14-year-old child,' she said. 'I say 'child' because that's what she was – a child who fell in love with the idea of the handsome, musically inclined and rather exotic Brandon Kane. The real man was an overweight, balding, middle-aged paedophile with sex and murder on his mind. Loading 'When your deception came unravelled, you killed Miss Ryan. You left in your wake a devastated and inconsolably grief-stricken mother, family and friends. 'You were sexually obsessed with Miss Ryan to the degree that, when you could not get your own way, you prepared to, and did, kill her.' Newman was given life with a minimum of 29 years. Carly's mother, Sonya Ryan, says she knew that if he hadn't been convicted he would have continued to prey on teenage girls. 'I knew Carly wouldn't be the last. He was grooming multiple girls, one in Singapore and one in the US.' Loading Ryan has spent more than 15 years using her daughter's death to try to protect others, turning herself into an expert in the field and a tireless lobbyist for change. She set up the Carly Ryan Foundation to educate adolescents on how to navigate social media safely and to provide laws to protect children. 'Out of the grief came clarity, and I could see what was coming,' she says. 'I am grateful I am doing something Carly would want me to do. We have to create shields to protect our children.' Eventually, politicians listened and passed what is known as Carly's Law in federal parliament. The legislation makes it an offence for an adult to masquerade as a minor online. It allows police to move in before the child has been successfully groomed and has a maximum penalty of 10 years' jail. Ryan became South Australian of the Year in 2013, and was made an officer of the Order of Australia in 2021. Ryan, who is in the US talking to politicians about introducing Carly's Law, says the online world is more dangerous for kids than ever before. She knows such crimes are international and require an international defence. In the federal police operation Blackheath, officers identified 47 offenders who tricked young people to perform sexually explicit acts online. The predators record the images to sell to international pay-for-view platforms. Police found about 100 victims in the US, Britain, Russia, Denmark, Argentina, South Korea, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Italy, South Africa, Germany and France. The Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation receives about 100 reports a month of children being targeted online. 'Children now carry mini-computers in their pocket,' says Ryan. 'Wherever children are online, there are predators. 'AI is really concerning. It is a new tool for criminals. With AI, children can be groomed in minutes.
