In June 2022 the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, known as the Roe v Wade ruling, leaving the decision to individual states. As a result, 14 of the 50 US states banned abortion at all stages of pregnancy with very limited except...
have banned or limited abortion. the number of patients traveling to other states to get an abortion has doubled since 2020, reaching nearly one in five, according to research published in december by the pro-reproductive rights guttmacher institute. the restrictions have also accelerated the use...
Before Roe v. Wade was overturned, states could impose certain restrictions as long as the right to an abortion remained intact. Legislators in predominantly Republican states such as Texas tended to pass bills putting limits on abortion, many of which have resulted in legal challenges and small...
In the United States alone, half of the 6 million pregnancies that occur each year are unplanned; about 1.3 million of those 3 million unplanned pregnancies end in abortion [source:Bazelon]. If these rates continue, then about one-third of women in the U.S. will have had an abortion by ...
Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field of study that incorporates insights from the traditional humanities subjects, social sciences and physical sciences. Competing theories about gender and sexuality underlie many debates on hot-button issues like abortion, pay equity and transgender identity. Gender...
The heart of Justice Alito’s majority opinion is that the 14th Amendment protects only unwritten rights that were already understood to exist in 1868, when it was adopted. Many states then banned abortion, so it was wrong for the Supreme Court, in 1973’s Roe v. Wade, to interpret the ...
Donald Trump began his first day as the 47th president of the United States with a dizzying display of force, signing a blizzard of executive orders that signaled his desire to remake American institutions while also pardoning nearly all of his supporters who rioted at the US Capitol on Jan....
referenced in the Court’s ultimate decision,” Kaye said in a press briefing after the hearing. “Either with respect to the outcome of this case, or a broader signaling of how some of the justices believe this Comstock Act could be used to strip away a right to abor...
Meanwhile, Massachusetts and more than a dozen states said they are challenging Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship. Trump’s order would end the policy of automatically granting citizenship to people born in the US, a move he said on the campaign...
Abortion procedures are an invasive medical technique that empties the womb. They are sometimes called surgical abortions, although they don't involve surgery. In the United States, abortions by pills usually involve the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. As morestatesseek abortion limits, demand for...