While the Supreme Court's 2022 decision tooverturn Roe v. Wadeeliminated the national right to abortion, leading tostricter abortion lawsin more than 20 states, the fight for abortion access persists at the state level. This year, abortion is on the ballot in 10 states, signaling that thebat...
Wade. Those restrictions may no longer apply in states where "trigger laws," which ban abortion without the federal constitutional protection of Roe v. Wade, were in effect. Fetal pain laws or 20-week bans These laws typically ban abortion at or after 20 weeks of gestation on the theory ...
Latest ruling on pill shifts US abortion landscape again FILE People march through downtown Amarillo to protest a lawsuit to ban the abortion drug mifepristone Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas. Some Democrat-controlled states are advancing and adopting laws and executive orders int...
Washington —The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge targeting the availability of thewidely used abortion pillmifepristone, preserving access to the drug in its first major abortion-related ruling since thereversal of Roe v. Wade. Theunanimous rulingfrom the justices was on procedural grou...
State and National Laws In 1968, Colorado, California, North Carolina and Oregon reformed abortion laws to allow abortion in some cases. Between 1969-1970, a dozen other states followed suit. On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down every state abortion law through two ruling...
District Attorney Tony Clayton, the prosecutor in the Louisiana case, said the arrest warrant for Carpenter is “nationwide” and that she could face arrest in states with anti-abortion laws. Louisiana has a near-total abortion ban. Physicians convicted of ...
This ruling will undoubtedly energize the most whacko, zealous of the anti-abortion groups to pattern the Texas laws into initiatives in other states. Therefore, it is sensible and important for pro-choice voters to get their pols to answer the questions raised here. ...
In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland.(Photo illustration by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) For example, Idaho and Kansas, where abortion laws differ significantly, are both part of this legal...
California and New York are considering similar bills after the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down Roe. v. Wade, putting abortion laws in the hands of state legislatures. Colorado's southern neighbor, New Mexico, is also controlled by Democrats and signed a similar abortion protection bill earlier...
There is also aseparate movementin Colorado for a ballot measure that would define a child as "any living human being from the moment human life biologically begins at conception through every stage of biological development until the child reaches emancipation as an adult" and would prohibit harm...