Without Roe, Guam could revert to an abortion ban dating to 1990. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law unconstitutional in 1992, but it has never been repealed.
Without Roe, Guam could revert to an abortion ban dating to 1990. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law unconstitutional in 1992, but it has never been repealed.
Women from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands will likely have to travel farther than other Americans to terminate a pregnancy Roe v Wade is overturned.
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San Nicolas: Guam has opportunity for golden age moving forward
By Joe Taitano II
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Del. Mike San Nicolas struck a note of hope for Guam s future during his congressional address on Monday, his first since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the island in March 2020. Our island is at an inflection point, emerging from the greatest danger our community has faced directly since World War II, he said of the pandemic
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Much of the address focused on federal money and programs that his office had been working to secure. Gaps in federal funding were closing up through improved Earned Income Tax Credit Reimbursement, a larger pool of Medicaid funding and the inclusion of Compact of Free Association migrants in the program, he said.