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Dec 5, 2024 | 
statecourtreport.org | Rex Bossert |Bridget Lavender |Emma Hetherington |Ting Cheng
In a country where the federal Constitution fails to guarantee sex equality, state Equal Rights Amendments (ERAs) and local laws have become essential safeguards for democracy. New York was one of several states to pass an amendment enshrining abortion rights into the state constitution last month — and the only one to do so with an inclusively worded ERA.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Han Liu |Qiang Wang |Ting Cheng |Wei Wei
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | CHEN CHEN |Jiarui Zhu |Ting Cheng |Fei Wu
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
zenodo.org | Ting Cheng
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
statecourtreport.org | Ciara Torres-Spelliscy |Alicia Bannon |Martha Davis |Ting Cheng
The Florida Supreme Court issued three opinions Monday that could have a serious impact on reproductive care in Florida and the 2024 presidential election. One upheld a 15-week abortion ban, and the other two approved the inclusion of proposed constitutional amendments on the November ballot — one of those would protect abortion, the other would legalize the use of recreational marijuana for adults. In Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida v.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Ting Cheng |Jiachen Zhang |Haicheng Li |Jinghan Diao
AbstractDNA N6-adenine methylation (6mA) is rediscovered as an important epigenetic mark in eukaryotes. We previously identified the MT-A70 family member AMT1 as the maintenance methyltransferase (MTase), but the identity of the de novo MTase(s) for 6mA establishment remains unidentified.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
msmagazine.com | Ting Cheng
This article was originally published on State Court Report, a project of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. Pennsylvania’s highest court held in January that the state’s statutory ban on Medicaid coverage for abortion is sex discrimination under the state’s Equal Rights Amendment.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
msmagazine.com | Ting Cheng
This story originally appeared on Harvard Advanced Leadership Social Impact Review. American democracy is an unfinished project. Our nation was founded on principles of equality and justice for all, but living up to these foundational principles is the animating challenge of our history. In 21st-century America, the battle for gender equality persists.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
msmagazine.com | Kathy Bonk |Jennifer Weiss-Wolf |Ally Dickson |Ting Cheng
Gender equality is the backbone of a free and fair democracy … which is why the fight to enshrine equality into the U.S. Constitution is foundational to Ms. and has been so since the magazine’s inception. Today we are closer than ever to securing the Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution—just as the real-time need for its protections couldn’t be more alarmingly urgent. For Women’s History Month 2024, we proudly dedicate this installment of Women & Democracy to the bold future of the ERA.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
statecourtreport.org | Martha Davis |Alicia Bannon |Ting Cheng |David Cohen
Many Native Hawaiians rely on lay midwives to provide culturally sensitive reproductive health care. People in Hawaii can face criminal charges for helping in childbirth without a license — with outsized impacts on those practicing Indigenous Hawaiian birthing customs and the families they serve. Last month, a group of midwives, their apprentices, and women seeking midwife care filed a state constitutional challenge to Hawaii’s Midwifery Restriction Law.
