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Eyal Press writes in The New Yorker. Audm subscribers can listen to that article.)In the rest of today’s newsletter, we look more closely at the 10 states.Furthest alongInitiatives seem most likely to happen soon in two states.In Ohio, a coalition of abortion rights groups is collecting signatures to place an initiative on the ballot this year that would protect access through roughly the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. For now, most abortions remain legal in Ohio, thanks to a court ruling blocking a ban.In South Dakota, organizers are optimistic that they can collect the signatures needed for an initiative next year. It is a compromise measure that would seek to reinstate the minimum access required by the Roe v. Wade decision. All abortions would be legal in the first trimester (roughly 12 weeks), and some would be in the second trimester.Early effortsIn several other states, efforts have begun, but they’re less advanced.In Missouri, advocates have not yet settled on one approach. Some petitions — an early step to putting an initiative on the ballot — would protect most abortion access until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Others would be narrower and let the state enact parental consent laws.In Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a near-total ban, advocates are hoping to place an initiative on the ballot that would allow most abortions until 24 weeks. But the state’s pro-marijuana movement helps highlight the slowness of the effort: Organizers of a 2024 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana have already raised $30 million and collected nearly all the required signatures — while organizers of an abortion initiative are just getting started.Arizona has tough rules for ballot initiatives, requiring hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition.

– Planned Parenthood

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

The way Manchin talked about those, he’s crediting the IRA and saying, ‘see, these are the good things that have happened,’ those are hundreds of jobs reaching into the thousands, which for our small state is a big, big deal.

– Angie Rosser

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Hundreds of people were in the park at the time of the shooting when someone started shooting into the crowd, hitting at least six people.

– Paul Humphrey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Any FDA drug approval involves hundreds of judgments by the agency. And if a court feels free just to kind of take a fresh look at each of those, there’s a chance that a court will find one of those FDA judgments wrong.

– William Schultz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hundreds of thousands of pregnant people will be forced to travel out of state to seek the care they need. Many people will not even know they are pregnant by six weeks, and for those who do, it is unlikely they will be able to schedule the legally required two in-person doctor’s appointments before six weeks of pregnancy.

– Kara Gross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This bill will unfairly and disproportionately impact people who live in rural communities, people with low incomes, people with disabilities, and people of color, hundreds of thousands of pregnant people will be forced to travel out of state to seek the care they need. Many people will not even know they are pregnant by six weeks, and for those who do, it is unlikely they will be able to schedule the legally required two in-person doctor’s appointments before six weeks of pregnancy.

– Kara Gross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had a member of Arsenal Supporters Trust buy one, and fly from the USA only to have his ticket refunded a few days before the game, of course, he has spent hundreds on the flight and hotels for which he could n’t get a refund.

– Akhil Vyas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have major issues with barriers to passage in their historic habitat, with dams preventing them from utilizing hundreds of miles of it.

– Jordan Traverso

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They were kidnapped from their home. They were transported hundreds of miles from there not really sure where they went. And they came to this place of horror, some to die, many to starve and be tortured. Women to be raped before they were then forcibly taken on a journey thousands of miles from their home to be sold by so-called merchants and taken to the Americas to the Caribbean to be an enslaved people.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Behind Story, what you would find is an ecosystem of hundreds of hospitality workers who depend on the club for their livelihoods, enforcement of the ordinance meant unemployment for these people. Story is in business and we are confident that Story will prevail in Court.

– Sean Burstyn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know it looks like I’m standing up here by myself, but I am not. I am hundreds of people.

– Tony Curtis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a waggle dancer, you’re running forward, rushing at about one body length per second over this open dance floor that has holes in it, you’re surrounded by hundreds and thousands of bees that you have to push out of the way, and it’s in complete darkness.

– James Nieh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

– Oliver Sacks

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1 year ago

That has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives, like any voluntary initiative, whether it’s successful will really depend on how much the US government and others – nonprofits, civil society organizations – really hold industry accountable for that.

– Laura Cobb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ll actually build new cities in our country again, these freedom cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people, all hardworking families, a new shot at home ownership and in fact, the American dream.

– Rebecca Blackwell/AP/File Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Why do you support Ukraine, pumping it with weapons instead of sitting down to negotiate as I suggest? You are already discussing sending long range weapons, missiles up to 300 kilometers in range and F 16 fighter jets, state of the art fighter jets, after hundreds of Leopard tanks have gone there. Why are you doing this? You understand this is escalation.

– Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images Lukashenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our members respond to hundreds of calls over and over, without fail. One incident should not define the good work being done by these dedicated public servants and some have taken that position, unfortunately.

– Tyre Nichols

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It had gotten to the point that we were having sergeants as acting lieutenants, hundreds of people did it over a period of time because we did n’t have enough supervisors. So many people were running out the door.

– Alvin Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With generative AI, we can already automate 360-degree spins of sneakers from just a handful of still photos, something that would have previously required merchants to use hundreds of product photos and costly technology, as we look ahead, you could imagine how generative AI will enable people to interact with visual information in entirely new ways.

– Prabhakar Raghavan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[F]rom a safety standpoint, picture yourself with large debris weighing hundreds if not thousands of pounds falling out of the sky. That’s really what we’re kind of talking about, so glass off of solar panels, potentially hazardous material, such as material that is required for a batteries to operate in such an environment as this and even the potential for explosives to detonate and destroy the balloon that could have been present.

– Glen VanHerck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The juxtaposition of our friendly visitor and galaxies hundreds of millions of light-years away really conveys how enormous our universe is, this comet started its journey in the most distant parts of our Solar System and may even leave the Solar System entirely after this visit, so capturing this historic event has been extraordinary.

– Imran Sultan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Thousands of generous people stepped up to help Kentuckians impacted by devastating storms. Andy Beshear has repeatedly patted himself on the back, but in reality, hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments that we know of were incorrectly distributed to people during an election year who weren’t impacted. Gov. Beshear needs to come clean and answer important questions about the situation.

– Andy Beshear

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It’s difficult to overstate how sour a taste this left in the hundreds of thousands of people at one of the most emotionally charged periods of the year.

– Scott Keyes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the days and weeks after my own cataract surgery, I was stunned by how bright and beautiful and vivid the world was, but I was shocked by the idea that there are hundreds of millions, probably 200 million people around the world, who are blind or nearly blind from cataracts and who don’t have access to the surgery.

– Jeff Levenson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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