New law expands abortion buffer zoneLisa Wangsness
Doctors are now required to provide patients seeking an abortion with information that claims that the effects of the abortion pill mifepristone can be reversed. The information is medically unsubstantiated, and medical groups argue studies supporting the idea are flawed. Although ...
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Democratic governors in Colorado, North Carolina, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington, Rhode Island and Maine have all signed executive orders aiming to protect abortion providers and volunteers. Connecticut was the first state to pass a law protecting abortion providers a...
[Extract] Recent developments regarding abortion law in NSW and Queensland carry significant implications for doctors. In New South Wales and Queensland, abortion is a criminal offence, unless it is deemed to be lawful. The doctor who provides the termination, those who assist and the woman hersel...
Supporters of abortion rights have filed separate lawsuits challenging abortion pill restrictions in North Carolina and West Virginia. The lawsuits were filed Wednesday.
It began enforcing a state law in 2021 — even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door to state bans — that barred nearly all abortions by allowing citizens to sue anyone who provides an abortion or assists someone in obtaining one. Pax...
NEW YORK--Gov. Kathy Hochulsigned a billprotecting New York-based doctorswho prescribe abortion pills for out-of-state patients into law almost a year to the day after the Supreme Courtoverturned Roe v. Wade. Twenty states banned or limited abortion access since the high court's rul...
The Texas law that took effect this week bans abortion once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, typically around six weeks. In states like Kansas and Colorado, where abortion is more accessible, providers and aid organizations said they already are seeing more inquiries from Texas wome...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire state law is being updated to better account for absentee voting by inmates who are awaiting trial or serving time for misdemeanors.