Abortion is completely banned in 13 states and heavily restricted in others. This removes far more than access to the narrow definition of abortion these lawmakers used: ending an unwanted pregnancy. Banning abortion takes away the ability of healthcare professionals in obstetrics and gynaecology to ...
In Florida, where since May, abortions have been banned after the sixth week of pregnancy with rare exceptions, the ballot failed even though it was just short of the 60% needed to pass (although different states had a varying threshold). Arizona - Passed A major win...
Wade— and that this is especially common among young people, people of color and those living in states where abortion is banned at all stages of pregnancy. Nearly half the states now allow abortion until between 20 and 27 weeks but bar it later than that in most cases. ...
"The Dobbs decision already made abortion out of access for many patients who live in states that have banned or so heavily restricted abortion," Welch said. "And we anticipate that [banning mifepristone] will just make it more difficult for some patients to get the care that they w...
It is hard to say what Trump's second administration, due to start once he is inaugurated on 20 January, could mean for the future of abortion rights in the US as the president-elect has flip-flopped on the issue. As president, he backed a Hous...
responses from a sample of abortion providers in the US. They probably undercount the number of abortions in the US, as the data does not include abortions that happen outside of the formal health care system or medication abortions that were sent to people in states where abortion...
In March, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill banning abortions after 18 weeks and then a second bill that banned the procedure in cases where the reason for the procedure was a Down syndrome diagnoses. (MORE: Abortion advocates react to Alabama ban, increasingly hostile atmosphere) The ACLU...
In Missouri, where abortion is banned throughout pregnancy, there are dueling ballot measures to expand abortion access. One would bar the government from banning it during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Another, from moderate Republicans, would make it legal but for fewer weeks....
Of the GOP candidates seeking the White House, the former vice president is the most vocal about his opposition to abortion rights,declaringthat "we must not rest and must not relent" until abortion is banned in every state. "Having been given this second chance for Life, we must not rest...
It comes after the US Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022, allowing each state to pass its own laws governing the procedure. Twenty-one states have since banned or moved to restrict abortions to limits tighter than before Roe v Wade, the 1973 case law that prev...