Little Change Seen In Va. Abortion Laws;Parental Consent Among Assembly ProposalsJohn F. Harris
Abortion - U.S. abortion laws: The research below, provided by Encyclopaedia Britannica, shows the abortion laws in each state as of Dec. 20, 2024. To confirm the most recent information, please consult your state laws before relying on legal information
Opponents say that VA’s decision to provide abortions violates several existing laws, including the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992, which prohibits abortions at VA medical locations. But Democratic supporters have argued that under the Veterans Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996, t...
“Historic Constitutional Challenge to Colonial-Era Abortion Laws in the Caribbean”This month, two women and two health care providers from Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda stepped into the arena to create history. They have filed the first ever constitutional challenges to colonial-era abortion ...
What are the abortion laws in your state? With the Supreme Court's ruling inDobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organizationoverturning Roe v. Wade, abortion laws now vary greatly from state to state. Since June, nearly a third of American women have lost access to abortion, The Washington Pos...
In Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court found that ‘the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.’ Rather, individual states must determine whether a right to abortion exists. Following Dobbs, state abortion laws have diverged significantly. This has generated confusion over what the law...
Numerous Republican lawmakers decried the departments’ policies, referring to them as illegal work-arounds for state abortion laws. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. — who blockedhundreds of senior military nominationsfor 11 months over the military policy — on Wednesday said he ...
"I will commit to protect the laws of the United States of America," Bondi said. The Supreme Court will be hearingchallengesto preventative care requirements in the ACA, also known as Obamacare, this spring. Bondi has previouslypushed backon various measures in the ACA. ...
and procedural reasons. But he also argues that the court's abortion jurisprudence is fundamentally misguided, and the court today "radically rewrites the undue burden test" by "requiring courts to consider the burdens a law imposes on abortion access together with the benefits those laws confer....
Residents in southwestern Virginia have battled for months over whether abortion clinics limited by strict laws in other states should be allowed to hop over the border and operate there.