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As of December 14, 2021, 39 cities in Texas had outlawed abortion within their city boundaries and declared themselves "sanctuary cities for the unborn." [205] [better source needed] The first city to do so was the city of Waskom, Texas, which enacted its local abortion ban on June 13, 2019. [206]
Abortion was illegal in North Dakota from 2022 to 2024, until Judge Bruce Romanick ruled that the state's abortion ban violated the Constitution of North Dakota's equality provisions. [ 158 ] [ 159 ] The law technically made exceptions to save the life of the pregnant woman, or, until 6 weeks into a pregnancy, in cases of rape or incest.
Texas had the highest infant mortality rise in the year after Dobbs; infant deaths rose 13%. [3] Many of these deaths were due to fetal abnormalities; deaths due to birth defects went up 23%, as the Texas Heartbeat Act bans all abortions after six weeks, with no exceptions for rape, incest or fetal abnormalities. "In the absence of an abortion ...
Texas became the first U.S. state to ban most abortion in the 21st century with the passage of Senate Bill 8 in 2021 and currently has one of the strictest prohibitions on the procedure in the ...
This 2014 map shows 60-mile access to abortion providers in Texas. An abortion clinic is a medical facility that provides abortions. Abortion clinics may be private or public medical practices or nonprofit organizations. In 27 major cities, and much of rural America, most people live 100 miles or more from an abortion clinic. [2]
Texas first enacted Senate Bill 8, a six-week abortion ban, in September 2021, nine months before the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the right to an abortion established in Roe v. Wade.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 1, 2021 as the court heard arguments in a challenge to a Texas abortion law which bans abortions after 6 weeks.
[273] [274] In May 2021, Lubbock, Texas, with a population of less than 270,000, voted to ban abortion with the "sanctuary city for the unborn ordinance", becoming the largest city in the U.S. to ban abortion. [275] [276] [277] Abortion rights movements have also pushed for similar counterpart legislation in other cities. [278]