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Leon County Judge Refuses to Block Florida Law Banning Vaccine Passports

October 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Same idea, but in legalese. (Felton Davis)

The ruling by Circuit Judge Layne Smith was a victory for Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has led efforts to prevent businesses from requiring customers to show proof they are vaccinated against Covid-19 — an issue that has become known as requiring vaccine passports.

On Refugees, Joe Biden Should Emulate Canada: Go Big

October 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The capacity of private American citizens to resettle refugees is large and untapped. It may even bridge the divide over immigration in the United States. Now is the time for Biden to ask the American people to invite homeless and war-ravaged Afghan refugees into their homes and their communities.

Why It’s Time to Replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day

October 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

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Since the 1990s, a growing number of states have begun to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day – a holiday meant to honor the culture and history of the people living in the Americas both before and after Columbus’ arrival.

The Nobels: Maria Ressa Speaks Blogging to Power

October 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The importance of journalists who take considerable risks to bring people the truth in countries where this involves going up against authoritarian governments has been recognized by the Nobel committee’s decision to award the 2021 peace prize to Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia.

Journalism Wins

October 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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It is revealing that in a year that drew 329 candidates for the peace prize, including organizations fighting climate change or covid 19, the committee opted for journalists. It’s a happy surprise for us reporters. It’s also, finally, a necessary one.

How Facebook’s ‘Dangerous’ Algorithms Can Manipulate You

October 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Social media platforms rely heavily on people’s behavior to decide on the content that you see. In particular, they watch for content that people respond to or “engage” with by liking, commenting and sharing. Troll farms, organizations that spread provocative content, exploit this by copying high-engagement content and posting it as their own, which helps them reach a wide audience.

The Brutal Slave Trade Within the US Has Been Largely Whitewashed Out of History

October 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Detail from the sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas on the the grounds of the National Memorial to Peace & Justice. ((© Pierre Tristam)

Slavery still conjures images of Southern farms and plantations. But the institution was grounded in the sales of nearly 2 million human beings in the domestic slave trade, the profits from which nurtured the economy of the entire country.

“Don’t Texas My Florida!” Protesters Mobilize for Women and LGBT Rights Across U.S.

October 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Reproductive rights advocates gather in front of Florida’s historic Old Capitol building to protest a Texas-style abortion ban that was filed last month in Florida. Oct. 2, 2021. Credit: Danielle J. Brown

The marches and rallies were scheduled in cities and communities across Florida and states elsewhere on Saturday, part of a “Day of Action” nationwide as tensions rise over the threat to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.

Supreme Court’s Docket: Guns, Abortion, Religion

October 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The biggest case this year is a challenge to abortion rights. Several states are asking the justices to reconsider Roe v. Wade – the landmark 1973 ruling that established the constitutional right for a woman to terminate a pregnancy, regardless of the moral beliefs of other citizens.

Desmond Meade, Leader in Restoring Felons’ Voting Rights, Wins $650,000 MacArthur Fellowship

October 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Desmond Meade of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, which led the fight to restore voting rights for felons who have served their sentence, after regaining his own right to vote in January 2019. Meade is now helping lead the fight against the new restrictions the Florida Legislature imposed on felons' rights. (Facebook)

Desmond Meade, a former drug dealer who has received international accolades after leading the drive to pass a 2018 Florida constitutional amendment to restore voting rights for felons, has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the program announced on Tuesday. Meade is one of this year’s 25 fellows selected for “originality, insight and potential,” according to the program’s website. They receive $625,000 grants, paid out over five years.

State School Board Will Meet to Police 11 School Districts’ Compliance with Ban on Mask Mandate

September 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Masking the masks: Brevard County public school students earlier this month. (Facebook)

The board will meet Oct. 7 and focus on the school districts in Alachua, Brevard, Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Indian River, Leon, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach and Sarasota counties, according to a notice published Wednesday in the Florida Administrative Register.

The Supreme Court’s Immense Power May Be Its Achilles’ Heel

September 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The Icarus supreme court. ( Ian Hutchinson on Unsplash)

That immense power of the Supreme Court has arguably made the court a leading player in enacting policy in the U.S. It may also cause the loss of the court’s legitimacy, which can be defined as popular acceptance of a government, political regime or system of governance.

Makenna’s Story: 9-Year-Old Palm Coast Student’s Covid Hospitalization Upends Glib Assumptions

September 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

One of the cards at Makenna's bedside at Wolfsons Children's Hospital. (Simon family)

Makenna’s story illustrates the pernicious tenacity of a disease that upends, separates and traumatizes families, cuts off income, creates unspeakable loneliness even for those not hospitalized, and leaves its casualties fuming at a community’s refusal to embrace–beyond thoughts and prayers–the small, effortless measures that could prevent much of the harm to most.

Florida Department of Health Argues for Suppressing Covid Data in Public Records Lawsuit

September 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The Florida Department of Health is trying to scuttle a public-records lawsuit seeking information about Covid-19, arguing that requested reports don’t exist and that the underlying data is confidential.

47 Million Americans Think Biden Is ‘Illegitimate.’ 21 Support Violence to ‘Restore’ Trump

September 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

A screen shot from an FBI video of the insurrection.

The survey found that many of these 21 million people with insurrectionist sentiments have the capacity for violent mobilization. At least 7 million of them already own a gun, and at least 3 million have served in the U.S. military and so have lethal skills. Of those 21 million, 6 million said they supported right-wing militias and extremist groups, and 1 million said they are themselves or personally know a member of such a group, including the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.

Stop Yelling. Have a Point: Advice for School Board Meeting Disrupters from Someone Who’s Been There.

September 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Randy Bertrand addressing the Flagler County School Board at a meeting last year.

In the wake of two turbulent school board meetings, Randall Bertrand was left wondering what all the sound and fury was about since many speakers’ loud and disruptive message was already made moot by school board votes or state policy.

Gov. DeSantis Reshaped Florida’s Appeals Courts. It Seems to Be Working Out for Him

September 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Florida Supreme Court building in Tallahassee. (Michael Moline)

The question is whether the conservative monoculture DeSantis and his predecessors have built within the judicial branch is willing to check excesses committed by the executive and legislative branches, which the Republican Party has dominated for decades. The question is being answered in the negative.

End the Offensive Discrimination Against Workers: Yes to Commercial Vehicles in Palm Coast Driveways

September 17, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 131 Comments

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Palm Coast’s prohibition against small, van-size commercial vehicles in residential driveways is outdated and discriminatory, especially targeting blue-collar workers while refusing to recognize the vastly changing geography of work. This isn’t a majority vote issue. It’s a workers’ rights issue.

Texas Unleashes Bounty Hunters on Women

September 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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A Texas law deputizes ordinary citizens to hunt down and sue anyone who helps a woman defy the ban (e.g. clinic staff, taxi drivers, someone who provided money for the procedure) with a minimum payoff of $10,000 if they’re successful.

Texas Rebirths Jim Crow Tactics in Vigilantism-Enabling Abortion Law

September 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A marker in Kendleton, Texas, commemorates the Terry v. Adams case, in which the Supreme Court struck down a Texas Jim Crow law that disenfranchised Black voters. (Djmaschek/Wikipedia)

The new Texas law that bans most abortions uses a method employed by Texas and other states to enforce racist Jim Crow laws in the 19th and 20th centuries that aimed to disenfranchise African Americans.

L’Darius Smith Is Sentenced to a Year in Jail Over Baseball Bat Incident, Ending Latest But Not Last Court Odyssey

September 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

In the words of Mario Balotelli: "Why always me?" L'Darius Smith with his attorney, Assistant Public Defender Regina Nunnally. (© FlaglerLive)

The long, convoluted, at times controversial case of L’Darius Smith ended Friday with his sentencing to a year in jail for aggravated assault, burglary, theft, battery and the improper exhibition of a weapon in a pair of incidents that go back to early 2020 in Palm Coast, that touched on claims of racial prejudice and involved a stand your ground hearing that Smith lost.

Simplistic and Damaging: How Schools Teach 9/11

September 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

An inscription on a wall at the 9/11 Memorial Museum at the site of the World Trade Center towers. Behind the wall is a repository of some 8,000 unidentified human remains. Virgil's quote, however, was taken out of context, and misapplied to the memory of the 9/11 victims. (© Pierre Tristam/FlaglerLive)

Narratives reduced to a focus on heroism and simplistic interpretations of good and evil do not help students reflect on the many controversial decisions made by the U.S. and their allies after 9/11, such as using embellished evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003. And they potentially reinforce political rhetoric that paints Muslims as potential terrorists and ignore the xenophobic attacks against Muslim Americans after the 9/11 attacks.

Florida Is Among World Leaders in Mass Incarceration

September 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Florida prisons are, of course, hiring. A notice on the Department of Corrections' Facebook page.

Florida and a dozen other states imprison people at the highest rates in the world, without demonstrating that incarceration reduces crime, says the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-partisan research and policy advocacy organization.

9/11: The Road Not Taken

September 11, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 3 Comments

In Washington Square Park in Manhattan, an American flag turned emotional message board in the days after the 9/11 attacks. (© Pierre Tristam/FlaglerLive)

The military and political misuses of the 9/11 terrorist attacks were bound to have bewildering consequences for the nation’s budget and its sense of itself as a free and peaceful society, absent the prevailing of wise, more prudent choices. Those choices did not prevail.

Black Lives Matter: Where We Stand

September 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Black Lives Matter has been called the largest civil movement in U.S. history. Lately, the movement and its leading organizations have become more traditional and hierarchical in structure. Two scholars of worldwide African communities and cultures – Kwasi Konadu and Bright Gyamfi – discuss BLM as both a movement and an organization.

Challenge to DeSantis’s Ban on Mask Mandates In Doubt Again as Appeals Court Reinstates Stay on Judge’s Decision

September 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee. (Wikimedia Commons)

Pointing to “serious doubts” about the lawsuit, an appeals court Friday put on hold a circuit judge’s ruling that said Gov. Ron DeSantis overstepped his constitutional authority in a July 30 executive order aimed at preventing school mask mandates.

Federal Judge Issues Injunction Against Florida’s Protest Law, Calling It ‘Vague and Overbroad’

September 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

It became the largest civil rights movement in the country. (© FlaglerLive)

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker on Thursday blocked a controversial state law that enhances penalties and creates new crimes in protests that turn violent. Walker, who has frequently clashed with the DeSantis administration and the GOP-controlled Legislature, granted the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction blocking DeSantis and three sheriffs from enforcing the law.

As Tempers Flare, Attorney and Flagler School Board Members Attempt Unprecedented Ban of Meeting’s Recording

September 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

School Board Attorney Kristy Gavin, standing, explaining the legalities of recordings at public meetings, an issue that caused Flagler County School Board members to stop their training workshop today for 27 minutes. Two of the board members wanted to bar recordings at the session, which would have violated open-meeting laws. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler School Board Attorney Kristy Gavin, School Board members Janet McDonald and Jill Woolbright attempted to ban recordings by a reporter and others of today’s daylong training workshop. A lawyer with the Attorney general’s office prevented the ban after a nearly 30-minute recess of the workshop.

Students Now Begin the Day With 1 to 2 Minutes of Silence, Costing Teachers Up to 6 Hours of Instructional Time

September 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Public schools across Florida are under a new requirement to hold a daily moment of silence for at least a whole minute and up to two minutes, according to a law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in June. How that plays out could mean less instruction time for teachers, improved mental health for students or maybe just a waste of time.

People Don’t Want to Work? Wrong. They Just Don’t Want to Work for Your Kind of Substandard Workplace.

September 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

First hint: the workplace was never a playground. (© Pierre Tristam/FlaglerLive)

After an earth-shattering 16 months that have seen hundreds of thousands of our family members, friends, and neighbors die at the hands of an implacable and indiscriminate foe, there’s just a genuine question of whether grinding it out for 40 hours a week at a job with substandard pay, low benefits, and little work-home balance is really worth it.

How Election Deniers Are Organizing at Local Levels to Seize Control of the GOP and Reshape America’s Elections

September 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

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The stolen election myth is inspiring thousands of Trump supporters to take over the Republican Party at the local level, from city councils to school boards to county commissions, as fact-denying extremists and militants exert mounting partisan influence on how elections are run.

An Arsonist’s Redemption: How Daniel Da Costa Avoided 35 Years in Prison on the Strength of His Own Recovery

September 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Daniel Da Costa on the stand this morning. (© FlaglerLive via court zoom)

Daniel Soares Da Costa, now 27, was facing 35 years in prison for setting fires outside a Publix off Belle Terre Parkway in Palm Coast 16 months ago. The story behind Da Costa’s act–his addiction, the loss of his father, and his recovery since his arrest all played into the prosecution’s and the judge’s leniency in a case illustrative of the judicial system’s rehabilitative side.

Judge Issues Written Ruling Barring DeSantis from Banning Mask Mandates or Enforcing Order, But Appeal Is Imminent

September 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper on Thursday released a written ruling that said Gov. Ron DeSantis overstepped his constitutional authority in a July 30 executive order that sought to prevent school districts from requiring students to wear masks. Cooper issued an injunction barring the enforcement of DeSantis’ order.

When Human Life Begins Is a Question of Politics, Not Biology

September 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Understanding what it is to be human requires a lot more than biology. And scientists can’t establish when a fertilized cell or embryo or fetus becomes a human being. Flawed surveys and political declarations can’t change the fact.

Federal Judge Tangles with DeSantis Administration Lawyer Over ‘Rabbit Hole’ Protest Law

August 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Who is Florida's protest law aimed at?

The Dream Defenders, the Florida State Conference of the NAACP and other organizations allege in a lawsuit that the measure, approved by Republican legislators and signed by DeSantis this spring, is unconstitutionally vague, has a “chilling” effect on First Amendment rights and gives local police too much power.

This Is What Happens to Child Migrants at the Border

August 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Behind huge numbers of migrants are individual children, many of whom have suffered from repeated trauma. Legally, the U.S. is obligated to care for these children from the moment they arrive until they turn 18, according to carefully defined procedures.

Hey, GOP: There’s a Museum Up in Montgomery Y’All Really Ought to See

August 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

You walk out of the fierce summer sun into a shadowy forest of rectangular steel columns, row upon row of them, six or seven feet tall, covered in rust the color of dried blood. (© Pierre Tristam/FlaglerLive)

Diane Roberts reports from the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., a silent but devastating testimony to how Americans terrorized and murdered other Americans for wanting to live as full citizens of this country. The Equal Justice Initiative is here to remind us that Jim Crow isn’t gone. Our history still warps our present.

Judge Rules DeSantis Had No Authority to Ban School Mask Mandates or Punish School Boards That Adopt Masking

August 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

The judge issued his ruling in a zoom hearing today. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

Judge John Cooper of the 2nd Judicial Circuit Court of Florida ruled today that Gov. Ron DeSantis had no legal authority under the recently-enacted Parental Bill of Rights to prohibit local school boards from adopting mask mandates that did not include opt-out provisions. The judge found DeSantis’s order “capricious” and not based in evidence, but rather based on an incomplete reading of the Bill of Rights.

In Maskless Flagler, We’re All Covid’s Sitting Ducks

August 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

The prevailing mood at last week's Flagler County School Board meeting. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County is in the worst public health crisis it has known in its history, with at least 10 covid deaths a week as many school infections in 3 weeks as all of last year combined, yet the debate remains immobilized by a war on masks that defies science and daily grim realities.

As 8 School Districts Approve Mask Mandates, DeSantis Administration Argues in Court Against Them

August 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The Duval County School Board on Monday became the eighth district to approve a mask mandate with only medical reasons allowed as exceptions. It joined Alachua, Broward, Palm Beach, Sarasota, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade and Leon counties. (Duval Schools)

As the legal battle plays out, eight school districts as of Tuesday afternoon had voted to require masks for students, with exceptions only for students whose parents submit doctors’ notes. The mask mandates in the eight counties cover an estimated 1.23 million students, based on state enrollment data from the 2020-2021 school year.

Full Appeals Court Will Hear St. Johns School District Transgender Bathroom Fight

August 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

But will the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals allow it to stay that way? (© FlaglerLive)

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday vacated a July 14 ruling by a three-judge panel that said a St. Johns County School Board policy preventing Drew Adams from using boys’ bathrooms was “arbitrary” and violated equal protection rights.

An FPC Student’s Perspective: Time to Rethink Inequitable and Irrational Dress Code in Flagler Schools

August 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

Clashing consistency: Students in Flagler schools are urging the school board to revise the district's dress code. (© FlaglerLive)

The district’s dress code is irrational, outdated, unfair and sexist. It limits individual expression, and it’s an utter waste of time, argues Jack Petocz, a junior at Flagler Palm Coast High School who calls on the school board to listen to students’ concerns and revise the code.

Covid Wars: A Ripped-Off Mask and Verbal Assault Over Rules Unravels Tensions in a School District

August 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Team covid has been amiss. (Phil Roeder)

Incidents in a Texas school district reflect tensions over masks radiating across the country: In one instance, a parent physically grabbed the mask off of a teacher’s face. In a separate incident, a teacher was repeatedly yelled at by a parent who requested the teacher take off their mask, claiming they couldn’t hear what the teacher was saying.

School Board Members Term Janet McDonald on ‘Witch Hunt’ and ‘Dangerous’ as She Guns for Board Attorney in Wake of Tuesday Tumult

August 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Flagler County School Board member Janet McDonald had been sharpening knives before, during and especially after Tuesday's tumultuous meeting of the school board. (© FlaglerLive)

School Board member Janet McDonald called for what would have been an unlawful, closed-door meeting to review the school board attorney’s contract, then called for any special meeting to review last Tuesday’s meeting, when the chamber had to be cleared because of the crowd’s rule-breaking. Two board members–Colleen Conklin and Cheryl Massaro–responded with withering criticism of their colleague.

Social Justice Begins With Honest History

August 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Outside the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a set of sculptures at Kelly Ingram Park recreate the violence of Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor's attacks on civil rights protesters. (© Pierre Tristam/FlaglerLive)

As 28 states consider or enact legislation to limit the teaching of this painful history, this is in fact a moment to dig more deeply into our nation’s past. Doing so can uncover the roots of our current challenges – from what children learn in school to how Americans are treated as they drive a car – and help us chart a better path forward.

U.S. Department of Education ‘Stands With You,’ It Tells Florida Superintendents Willing to Enact Mask Mandates

August 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Alachua County school employees at work on Friday. (Facebook)

The U.S. Department of Education is “deeply concerned” about Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order seeking to ban school mask mandates and is ready to help districts directly, the federal agency said in a letter to the governor Friday.

Holocaust Survivors Got Reparations. Why Not Slavery’s Descendants?

August 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo at the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala.

It’s easier to obtain reparations when the event occurred within living historical memory. It’s also easier when there are only a few identifiable perpetrators. And it is still easier when there is a limited number of victims, and the event occurred within a short period of time.

St. Johns School District Again Fighting Ruling Allowing Transgender Students to Use Bathroom of Their Choice

August 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The St. Johns County school district reads the 14th Amendment in a peculiarly institutional way. (© FlaglerLive)

The St. Johns County School Board is asking a federal appeals court to again consider a years-long battle about whether a transgender male student should have been allowed to use boys’ bathrooms.

Is It Time to Retire the ‘My Body, My Choice’ Slogan?

August 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Whether talking about reproductive health or COVID-19, choices involving health care are not only freedoms from external control. They also rely on the ability to access necessary care. As abortion rights make their way back to the Supreme Court during an ongoing global pandemic, it is a good time to reconsider whether “my body, my choice” is the right slogan for a right to health care.

Catholics for Choice Condemns U.S. Bishops for Urging Supreme Court to Restrict Abortion Rights

August 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Catholics for Choice, which uplifts and amplifies the voices of the majority of Catholics who believe in reproductive freedom, denounced the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) today for asking the Supreme Court to uphold a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks.

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