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The state has an abortion rights activist community. Women from the state participated in marches supporting abortion rights as part of a #StoptheBans movement in May 2019. [35] Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, abortion rights protests in Teaneck, Morristown and South Orange were held on June 24. [36]
News. Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports. Weather. 24/7 ... who signed the law codifying abortion rights in New Jersey and has been a reliable advocate of reproductive rights in his entire six years ...
Abortion rights advocates have prevailed on 14 of them and lost on four. In the 2024 election, they amended the constitutions in five states to add the right to abortion. Such measures failed in ...
There has also been scholarly discussion as whether abortion shield laws—particularly those prohibiting the enforcement of judgements or injunctions (provisions designed to hobble the Texas Heartbeat Act and its progeny) arising from laws limiting abortion access—would withstand constitutional challenges claiming such laws are in violation ...
The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...
U.S. Rep. Andy Kim received a warm welcome from Morris County Democrats on a frigid morning this weekend as he brought his U.S. Senate campaign to a candidate forum at the County College of Morris ...
In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state very hostile to abortion rights, the abortion rate by state of occurrence dropped from 4 in 1000 women aged 15–44 for 2017 to 0.1 for 2020, because 57% of abortion recipients went out of state in 2017, while 99% did so in 2020. [311]
Meanwhile, constitutional amendments that would protect or expand abortion rights are set to appear on the general election ballot in 10 states, including four with pivotal Senate contests ...