“We were already planning to be involved in these states, but Dobbs has heightened our interest and heightened our sense of purpose and sense of mission on it," said Jake Faleschini, the group's legal director for state courts, referring to the U.S. Supreme Court decision. The ra...
The Supreme Court's decision was not a complete suprise as a leaked memo from May 2022 suggested they were to make this decision, but the announcement in June still led to protests across the United States. A survey of U.S. adults just weeks before the announcement found that only 33 ...
In 1992, the Court upheld the right to abortion inPlanned Parenthoodv.Casey. However, the ruling significantly weakened the legal protections previously afforded women and physicians by giving states the right to enact restrictions that do not create an “undue burden” for women seeking abortion. ...
The CDC ordinarily develops its annual report on the basis of data received from 52 central health agencies (50 states plus New York City and the District of Columbia ). AGI collects its numbers from direct surveys of abortion providers. Because of these different methods of data collection, ...
The practice of abortion was legal in the United States under British Common Law until the mid-1800s when states started to make their own laws and made it illegal. Abortions were performed using methods such as knitting needles and household cleaners, many times resulting in excessive bleeding,...
Why Does the United States Have More Tornadoes than Any Other Country? ContentsAsk the Chatbot a Question Harry A. BlackmunAssociate justice Harry A. Blackmun, 1976. Roe v. Wade law case Print Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica ...
After the Supreme Court overturned a Roe v. Wade, an overview of abortion legislation in every state, including which states have banned, limited and protected abortions.
In the United States, abortion access is often more limited for people who live in states with few abortion facilities and restrictive abortion legislation. Pregnant people seeking an abortion thus often travel to access care. Methods We calculated state-specific abortion rate (number of abortions pe...
Abortions are on the rise in the United States, despite bans that have taken effect in more than a dozen states since the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to abortion in June 2022. There were more than 1 million abortions in the US in 2023, the highest ...
CNN is tracking these legal challenges as they make their way through the courts. Here’s where abortion access currently stands in the United States. Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with additional information.