For Texans trying to leave the state for an abortion funds that provide financial assistance to people seek abortions have become a focus of the debate. The fundsmostly suspended operationsafter the Dobbs decision due to confusion about whether their services were still legal, butresumed in the...
Although Texas allows this exception, doctors andwomen arguedin court last year that the state's law is so restrictive and vaguely worded that physicians are afraid of providing abortions for fear they could face potential criminal charges. Mr Hamilton clai...
1 spot on the Best States for Gender Equality list, recently passed a law allowing more health care providers to perform abortions, widening the availability of the procedure that is already legal until fetal viability. Meanwhile, states that scored the lowest in the Best States for Gender ...
Under a law dating from 1861, women who seek abortions and providers who perform them can face prison time. In 2022, the president’s cabinet backed a bill that would have decriminalized the procedure. However, the proposed legislation, called the Safe Motherhood and Rep...
overturnedRoe v Wadein 2022, 5 allow exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape. But even these exceptions fail to grant the abortion access that they promise, resulting in rape-related pregnancies far outstripping the number of legal abortions, according toresearchpublished inJAMA Internal Medicine....
Abortions are on the rise in the United States, despite bans that have taken effect in more than a dozen states since the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to abortion in June 2022.
In states like Texas with near-total abortion bans, the courts have been largely asked to determine how to implement exceptions. InZurawski vs. State of Texas, women who were denied abortions despite dangerous pregnancy complications sued the state to clarify when doctors can provide medically neces...
Although more than 20 states have begun enforcing abortion bans of varying degrees since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, studies have found that the number of monthly abortions nationally is about the same — or higher — than it was before th...
Of the 14 states that have enacted near-total bans on abortion since the Dobbs decision, all but two had an higher-than-average infant mortality rate in 2022, CDC data shows. CNN’s Brenda Goodman contributed to this report. Up next An abortion clinic moved to a ‘safe...
World Wide STUDY on abortions:http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_IAW.pdf * The National Right to Life Committee reported on their 1/2021 fact sheet (https://www.nrlc.org/uploads/factsheets/FS01AbortionintheUS.pdf)that the total of US abortions since 1973 (RVW) through 2019was 62,502,...