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Anonymous ID: bde335 March 13, 2019, 4:18 p.m. No.5667258   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7797 >>7892

Bill passes to ban abortions based on gender, disability

 

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Republican-led legislature has passed a bill that would ban abortion for women seeking to end their pregnancies because of the gender, race or disability of the fetus.

 

The bill that cleared the legislature Wednesday would ban abortions based on the fetus’s sex, race, color, national origin — or diagnosis or potential diagnosis of the congenital condition Down syndrome or any other disability.

 

It passed the Senate 32-4, part of an aggressive agenda by GOP-dominated legislatures in Kentucky and several other states to restrict abortion.

 

Soon after the bill was sent to the state’s anti-abortion governor, Republican Matt Bevin, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday that it will challenge the measure in court.

 

Bevin responded to the ACLU challenge, tweeting: “Bring it! Kentucky will always fight for life.”

 

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Anonymous ID: bde335 March 13, 2019, 4:29 p.m. No.5667406   🗄️.is 🔗kun

With lawsuits looming, OxyContin maker considers bankruptcy

 

The company that has made billions selling the prescription painkiller OxyContin said Wednesday that it is considering legal options including bankruptcy, a move that could upend hundreds of lawsuits claiming it had a major role in causing the U.S. opioid drug crisis.

 

“As the company has stated, it is exploring and preparing for any number of eventualities and options, given the amount of litigation the company currently faces,” Purdue Pharma spokesman Robert Josephson said in an email to The Associated Press. “A decision has not been made to file for bankruptcy, nor is there a timetable.”

 

Such a move has been seen as a strong possibility as the privately held company hired an executive and consultants that specialize in helping companies restructure in the past year.

 

The company is owned by members of the Sackler family, who have given money to museums around the world, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and London’s Tate Modern. A court filing made public in Massachusetts earlier this year asserts that members of the family were paid more than $4 billion from Purdue from 2007 to 2018.

 

The first trial date is nearing in hundreds of lawsuits aiming to hold the company and others in the drug industry accountable for the nationwide opioid crisis.

 

Bankruptcy proceedings would likely pause that litigation, at least for Purdue.

 

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