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Halle Friedman is a Trinity junior and an associate news editor of The Chronicle's 118th volume.
The injunction affects only two specific provisions of the bill — one that instructs doctors to document pregnancies before prescribing pregnancy-ending medication and the other that requires abortions performed after 12 weeks of pregnancy to take place in hospitals.
After the National Labor Relations Board approved DGSU’s petition for an election, Duke doctoral students overwhelmingly voted to become an officially recognized union in August. The DGSU’s Tuesday rally was the union’s first since the election was certified.
Duke Health neurosurgeon Oren Gottfried, who also works as a medical consultant for television, took on a voice acting as an AI operating room on Chicago Med.
The future of abortion in North Carolina depends on November’s elections. Thus, Democrat legislators have attempted to codify Roe v. Wade to ensure access to abortion through two bills: Senate Bill 888 and and House Bill 1119.
The program was recently renamed the Richard A. Horvitz Program in Constitutional and Public Law, after the family that has spearheaded the program’s activities since 1998.
Duke added Juneteenth as a designated holiday in October. Paid holidays are for staff scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week, and include both designated and discretionary holidays.
Researchers aimed to make the technology more accessible by creating a smartphone-compatible, user-friendly tympanometer, so that patients will be able to interpret results without the assistance of an audiologist.
Without federal protection of abortion rights, state legislatures would have the discretion to decide on abortion legality. In the Republican-held North Carolina General Assembly, legislation to implement a post-viability abortion ban may be on the table.
“The Plea Tracker Project, for us, is an opportunity to look into our work and see if we are actually living up to what we’re saying we’re doing."
A stately red brick residence across from East Campus will soon be transformed into an enclave for Jewish students at Duke and renamed the Fleishman House. The century-old residence features three floors, 17 bedrooms and a 2,100 square-foot rooftop deck.