See where abortions are banned and legal — and where it’s still in limbo Following the US Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which eliminated a constitutional right to abortion nationwide, 19 US states have banned or limited access to the ...
By the summer of 2024, about 1 in 10 abortions was via pills prescribed via telehealth to patients in states where abortion is banned. As a result, the pills are now at the center of battles over abortion access. This month, Texas sued a New York doctor for prescribing pills to a ...
In two deaths of Texas women that ProPublica investigated, Porsha Ngumezi and Josseli Barnica had already miscarried when they were given misoprostol to help complete the process. The committee does not review cases that involve that drug because it’s also used for abortions, said committee chai...
There were about 30% fewer abortions there in May compared with the average for the first three months of the year. And in June, there were 35% fewer. While the ban is not unique, the impact is especially large. The average driving time from Florida to...
But efforts to restore abortion access in Arkansas and South Dakota – two states where the procedure is totally banned except to save the life of the pregnant patient – allow for more restrictions. The Arkansasballot initiative, which received approval to start gathering signa...
By the time Deshelle decided again to go ahead with an abortion, she was nearly 15 weeks pregnant and the North Carolina law had changed. By July 1, nearly all abortions after 12 weeks were banned. She would have to go out of state. ...
The state has also banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy — with exceptions for rape, incest and to save the life of a pregnant person — enforced through a private right of action. The law has been enjoined, but could go into effect before the total ban kicks in pending court ...
Anti-abortion lawmakers there say they will further promote adoption and foster-care programs if abortion is banned. “We win the biggest battle if Roe v. Wade is overturned. But then there’s still some battles that we must fight. And I’m going to love a child in the womb, at 5 ...
"protect the life and health of the pregnant person." But as 25 states have banned abortion or tightened restrictions in the year since the Supreme Court issued its landmarkruling overturning Roe v. Wade, attempts to codify these exceptions have left doctors and their patients in a complicated...
right to emergency contraception, or explicit access for minors to contraception generally. no medicaid expansion, either. florida does a bit better on access to abortions, though. an ultrasound is mandatory, and minors must receive permission. just 22 percent of floridian women live in a county ...