Proposed protective measures in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota did not pass. Nebraska voters instead approved cementing the state’s current 12-week abortion ban in the state constitution. CNN is tracking these legal challenges as they make their way through the courts. Here’s where abortion ...
Meanwhile, the legal application of more expansive abortion rights measures is relatively untested. Vermont and California are the only states that have enshrined abortion rights in their state constitutions without any limits based on fetal viability, and while Vermont’s change had no p...
SINCE the US Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion, the number of abortions performed in the US has declined. However, in states where the procedure remains legal, abortions have increased by just over 11 per cent.doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(22)02029-2Grace WadeNew scientist...
Courts are beginning to draw some lines around a state’s ability to regulate abortion-related conduct outside its borders in the legal challenge to an Idaho law criminalizing the transport of minors out of state to obtain abortions without their parents’ knowledge. The 9th US Circuit Court ...
Pills become a bigger part of equation — and the legal questions As the bans swept in, abortion pills became a bigger part of the equation. They were involved in about half the abortions before Dobbs. More recently, it’s been closer to two-thirds of th...
“The answers you have given tell me that the Trump administration is more than willing to restrict or even ban medication abortion without a single act of Congress and even in states where abortion is legal,” she said during his confirmation hearing. ...
But a network of efforts to get women seeking abortions to places where they’re legal has strengthened and travel for abortion is now common. The Guttmacher Institute found that more than twice as many Texas residents obtained abortion in 2023 in New Mexico as New Mexico residents did. And ...
Legal hurdles and policy debates But new challenges await. In South Dakota, a new law gives voters the right towithdraw their name from a petitionto initiate a constitutional amendment. And in Missouri, Republican lawmakers are backing a measure thatwould enshrine the state’s...
Abortions are, for now, legal until viability. The state's pre-Roe law, which prohibits all abortions except to save the life of the pregnant person, was found unconstitutional by the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1973 and subsequently enjoined by a superior court judge. Proponents have, howe...
The bankreportedlywill cover travel costs for U.S.-based employees who need to go out of state to get abortions or gender-affirming care, starting July 1. Hewlett Packard The company isamong those that cover travel costsfor medical procedures not available in a worker's home state. ...