Parents typically do not want to imagine their teens having an abortion, but hundreds of thousands of teen girls become pregnant every year in the United States, and most of those pregnancies are unplanned. While no state requires parental consent for contraception, the abortion laws for teens va...
Here is an overview of abortion legislation and the expected impact of the court’s decision in every state. ___ ALABAMA Political control: Alabama’s Republican-controlled Legislature and Republican governor want to ban or restrict access to abortions. Background: In 2019, Alabama lawmakers approv...
With the Supreme Court's ruling inDobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organizationoverturning Roe v. Wade, abortion laws now vary greatly from state to state. Since June, nearly a third of American women have lost access to abortion, The Washington Postreported. Below are the latest regulations i...
Down in Alabama, a state where people like Roy Moore still have swaths of supporters, oppressive political forces have ensured the passing of what is effectively a near-total abortion ban. ACLU @ACLU ·Follow We’ll keep saying this. 10:37 AM · May 15, 2019 1.6K Reply Copy link Read ...
Abortion Access in the United States Post-Dobbs Decision ABC News, State laws, Guttmacher Institute Alabama Alabama has ceased nearly all abortion services, prohibiting the procedure at all stages of pregnancy unless medically necessary to protect the health or life of the woman. ...
Alabama Senator Clyde Chambliss argued in support of the bill. The Republican lawmaker said the reason for passing the bill was "so that we can go directly to the Supreme Court tochallengeRoe versus Wade." The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that a Texas law criminalizing abortion violat...
abortion bans, from Alabama to West Virginia, collectively lost a net 36,000 residents per quarter, meaning the difference between the number of people leaving the states versus those migrating in, according to theanalysisfrom economists at Georgia Institute of Technology and The College of Wooster...
New York Doctor Is Fined in Texas, Charged in Louisiana Over Abortion Pills in Tests of Shield Laws A New York doctor’s alleged decision to send abortion pills to patients in Texas and Louisiana has pitted the Empire State’s shield law against the two conservativ...
AlabamaThe 2019 Human Life Protection Act, which had been held by an injunction, was allowed to go into effect Friday. It makes it unlawful "for any person to intentionally perform or attempt to perform an abortion" unless "an abortion is necessary in order to prevent a serious health ...
Alabama Potentially illegal State could try to enforce its pre-Roelaw banning all abortions except to save the life of the pregnant person; near-total ban on abortion enjoined but could be reinstated The state may try to enforce its pre-Roelaw, which was determined to be unconstitutional. The...