Political control: Maryland’s Genderal Assembly is controlled by Democrats who expanded abortion access this year by ending a restriction that only physicians can provide them and requiring most insurance plans to cover abortion care without cost. The legislature overrode Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’...
BeforeDobbs,state laws banning or severely restricting abortion access fell into three broad categories: 1) “trigger bans,” which ban abortion under most circumstances and go into effect with the fall ofRoe; 2) pre-Roebans, which are old laws still on the books that could now be enforced;...
The most common form of abortion is a hormonal, or medical, abortion. Ahormonal abortionis acheived by taking a series of pills that induce an abortion. After taking the pill, the individual should go to the doctor to ensure that their pregnancy was terminated. If so, the individual will b...
The article reports on the passage of several abortion restriction bills by several state legislators in the U.S. It mentions the increasing number of abortion-mitigation bills passed in 2011 and cites several states that have already legislated such legislation including Idaho, Kansas, and Oklahoma...
Graham’s comments come a week after he introduced the bill, the most serious effort to date by Republicans in Congress to pass a nationwide abortion restriction after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Graham, who just last month said the Supreme Court made the correct decision by le...
The word “abortion” is associated with spontaneous pregnancy loss as well as both legal and illegal termination of pregnancy. This has been unhelpful in the discussion of this topic and led to confusion from the use of different terms for the same...
Washington —Former President Donald Trump on Monday declined to endorse a federal abortion ban, saying that the issue should be left up to states despite encouragement from anti-abortion groups that he should back a national restriction.
2.Something reproduced, especially in the faithfulness of its resemblance to the form and elements of the original:a fine reproduction of a painting by Matisse. 3.BiologyThe sexual or asexual process by which organisms generate new individuals of the same kind; procreation. ...
Lisonbee said she has heard of some Utahns “pushing to have an abortion policy restriction that doesn’t include any exemptions.” “I don’t think that will pass in Utah,” Lisonbee added. “But I could be wrong.” Related What Mitt Romney, Mike Lee s...
The alternative is the restriction of women’s access to a safe medical procedure to which they are entitled as a matter of both privacy and gender equality. Evans, Ph.D., MPH is an assistant professor of global health at Emory University....