Mapped: Abortion Legality by U.S. State

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Abortion Legality in America by State

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In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, opening the door for states to make their own decisions regarding abortion legality.

In this graphic, we visualize how each U.S. state has altered abortion legality in the post-Roe era, using data from the Center for Reproductive Rights.

What Is Roe v. Wade? 

Roe v. Wade refers to the landmark ruling by the Supreme Court in 1973 that dictated that the Constitution of the United States protected an individual’s right to have an abortion.

For over 50 years, the ruling prevented states from banning or significantly restricting abortion to their populations.

As of June 2022, this is no longer the case, as five Supreme Court justices voted to overturn Roe, while four supported maintaining it.

What Happened After Roe Was Overturned?

Since the June 2022 ruling, 14 states—including Texas, Missouri, and much of the South—have made abortion illegal. 

StateAbortion Legality Status AlabamaIllegal AlaskaProtected ArizonaRestrictive ArkansasIllegal CaliforniaExpanded Access ColoradoProtected ConnecticutExpanded Access DelawareProtected FloridaRestrictive GeorgiaRestrictive HawaiiExpanded Access IdahoIllegal IllinoisExpanded Access IndianaIllegal IowaRestrictive KansasProtected KentuckyIllegal LouisianaIllegal MaineProtected MarylandProtected MassachusettsProtected MichiganProtected MinnesotaExpanded Access MississippiIllegal MissouriIllegal MontanaProtected NebraskaRestrictive NevadaProtected New HampshireNot Protected New JerseyExpanded Access New MexicoNot Protected New YorkExpanded Access North CarolinaRestrictive North DakotaIllegal OhioProtected OklahomaIllegal OregonExpanded Access PennsylvaniaRestrictive Rhode IslandExpanded Access South CarolinaRestrictive South DakotaIllegal TennesseeIllegal TexasIllegal UtahRestrictive VermontExpanded Access VirginiaNot Protected WashingtonExpanded Access West VirginiaIllegal WisconsinRestrictive

Growth, value stocks could see boost from Russell rebalancing

A bullish move may be ahead for both value and growth in the year’s second half.

VettaFi’s Todd Rosenbluth thinks value stocks, which have been market laggards, could get a lift from one of the biggest Wall Street events of the year: the FTSE Russell’s annual rebalancing.

“It’s worth paying attention to value,” the firm’s head of research told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “It feels like … [for a] long time that growth has outperformed value.”

On Friday, the Russell indexes underwent their annual reconstitution to reflect changes in the market as companies grow and shift. The iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF is up 20% so far this year, while the iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF is up almost 6%.

“We do think there’s a place for both growth and value within a broader portfolio — just people are skewed more toward growth heading into the second half of the year,” he added. “There have been periods when the pendulum has swung back in favor of value.”

FTSE Russell CEO Fiona Bassett said on “ETF Edge” the indices are built to reflect the nature of the market.

“One of the benefits of the Russell franchise generally is our ability to provide different sleeves of exposure,” she said. “So, for those people who want to get concentrated exposure to value or to growth, we have the indices available to do that.”

As of May 31, FactSet reports the Russell 1000 Growth ETF’s top three holdings are Microsoft, Apple and Nvidia. Meanwhile, the Russell 1000 Value ETF’s top holdings are Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase and Exxon Mobil.

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Book Bits: 29 June 2024

● The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Ray Kurzweil
Review via The New York Times
In “The Singularity Is Nearer,” Kurzweil promises that, by 2029, A.I. will be “better than all humans” in “every skill possessed by any human.” During the 2030s, solar power, enhanced by A.I.-driven advances in 3-D printing, will come to dominate the global energy supply, most consumer goods will be free, and the “dramatic reduction of physical scarcity” will “finally allow us to easily provide for the needs of everyone.” Sounds rad!
Enter the blood robots. Have no doubt: “The long-term goal is nanorobots.” One day next decade, Kurzweil believes, you and I will feed nanobots through our capillaries. The little busybodies will swim to our brains, where they will connect our neocortex to the cloud, allowing us to expand our intelligence “millions-fold.” This is “the Singularity.”

● The Great Decline: From the Era of Hope and Progress to the Age of Fear and Rage
John Bone
Summary via publisher (Bristol Press)
It seems clear that many formerly stable societies in wealthy developed countries appear to be falling into an apparent state of ‘permacrisis’ accompanied by an increasingly angry and irrational social and political culture that is undermining the peace and stability of our societies and democratic institutions, from the local to the global. Applying an original biosocial approach (the social map), and drawing on ideas and evidence from sociology, history and political economy, to psychology, neuroscience and epigenetics, John Bone argues that conditions in our turbocapitalist and increasingly estranged, media dominated societies have created a toxic environment, deeply damaging to our mental and physical health. As well as shedding new light on our current troubles, Bone also outlines why this leaves us ill prepared to deal with two of the greatest challenges confronting humanity: the rise of AI and automation and how we deal with climate change.

● The Puzzle of Sustainable Investment: What Smart Investors Should Know
Lukasz Pomorski
Summary via publisher (Wiley)
In The Puzzle of Sustainable Investment: What Smart Investors Should Know, veteran Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG) investor and educator Lukasz Pomorski delivers a balanced, informed, and insightful new take on sustainable investing. The author takes you through every relevant aspect of the frameworks, design choices, and data that sustainable investors use to build successful portfolios, as well as how sustainability choices might affect a financial portfolio, including cases where sustainability objectives are at odds with financial returns. You’ll also learn how

Ranked: The Most Endangered Animals in the World

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In the last decade alone, more than 460 species have been declared extinct. Expanding human activity is largely to blame for this rapid biodiversity loss.

This graphic shows the most endangered animals by numbers found in the wild, per estimates from the World Wildlife Fund UK.

ℹ️ This endangered animals list does not include species that are functionally extinct: not seen in decades or whose populations are no longer viable. Ranked: Critically Endangered Animals

There are only about 75 Javan Rhinos left in the wild. Once found between the eastern edge of the Indian subcontinent all the way to Indonesia, their numbers have been steadily reduced by hunting and encoraching human settlements. Now they can be found only at the Ujung Kulon National Park in Java, Indonesia.

RankEndangered AnimalsEstimated Number
Left in the WildFound in 1🦏 Javan Rhino75Java, Indonesia 2🐆 Amur Leopard100China & Russia 3🐅 Sunda Island Tiger600Sumatra, Indonesia 4🦧 Tapanuli Orangutan800Sumatra, Indonesia 5🦍 Mountain Gorillas1,000DRC, Rwanda
& Uganda 6🐬 Yangtze Finless Porpoise1,000Yangtze River, China 7🦏 Black Rhinos5,630Kenya, Namibia,
South Africa
& Zimbabwe 8🦧 Sumatran Orangutan14,000Sumatra, Indonesia 9🐢 Hawksbill Turtles23,000Atlantic, Indian,
Pacific Oceans 10🐘 African Forest Elephant30,000*Congo Basin
Note: *Last estimate from 2013.

In fact, Indonesia’s rainforests, home to 17% of all birds, 12% of the world’s mammals, and 10% of all plants, have steadily decreased as the country’s population has surged.

As a result, the country has already seen many species go extinct. It also currently has four animals on the WWF’s 10 most endangered animals list.

Aside from the Javan Rhino, this includes: the Sunda Island Tiger, and the Tapanuli and Sumatran Orangutans.

The Sunda Island Tiger is the smallest of all tiger species. Its Javan and Balinese counterparts have already been driven to extinction by hunting and habitat loss.

The Tapanuli and Sumatran Orangutans are two of the three great ape species found in Asia.

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BlackRock throws support behind effort to move pensions beyond ESG

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BlackRock has thrown its weight behind a coalition of US police and firefighter labour groups that is making the case for getting politics out of pensions, in its latest effort to navigate the backlash to environmental, social and governance investing.

The world’s largest money manager is the only financial group among the founding members of the Alliance for Prosperity and a Secure Retirement, a Delaware-registered non-profit that warns on its website that “politics has no place in Americans’ investment decisions”. After coming under fire over its advocacy for sustainable investing, BlackRock has increasingly highlighted the primacy of investor choice.

A handful of small business and consumer non-profits are also members of the alliance, which launched earlier this year amid a flurry of ESG-related activity. Forty-four state legislatures considered 162 bills in 2023, and 76 more proposals have been put forward this year, according to law firm Ropes & Gray. Roughly 80 per cent of the proposals sought to ban consideration of sustainability factors, while the rest actively promoted it.

“We are not pro-ESG. We are not anti-ESG. What we are is ‘pro’ letting investment professionals, who have a fiduciary duty to their beneficiaries, do the work that they’re supposed to do,” Tim Hill, a retired Phoenix firefighter who is president of the alliance, told the Financial Times. “We are ‘anti’ politicians, from either the right or left, interfering with that fiduciary duty so they can carry out a political, social agenda.”

Hill said the group had been set up to rally pension industry participants in support. “We decided we were going to try and take this different tack of enlisting the industry to assist us, primarily in the financial burden of pushing back and protecting our funds and fund managers,” he said.

BlackRock said in a statement that it was “proud” to back the alliance, adding: “As a fiduciary, our mission is to help more people experience financial wellbeing in all phases of life. The alliance is one of many organisations that BlackRock supports which are committed to helping more Americans retire with dignity on their own terms.”

The $10.5tn money manager has been at the centre of the political fight over ESG since 2020 when chief executive Larry Fink beat the drum for sustainable investing, pledging in his annual letter to make “sustainability integral to portfolio construction

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