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Abortion is legal in Rhode Island up to the point of fetal viability. 71% of residents reported support of passing laws to protect access to safe and legal abortion in 2018. There are some restrictions in Rhode Island, such as parental consent and clinic regulations in order to perform the procedure. [189]
The abortion debate most commonly relates to the induced abortion of a pregnancy, which is also how the term "abortion" is used in a legal sense. [nb 1] The terms "elective abortion" and "voluntary abortion" refer to the interruption of pregnancy, before viability, at the request of the woman but not for medical reasons. [39]
Governments sometimes take measures designed to afford legal protection of access to abortion.Such legislation often seeks to guard facilities which provide induced abortion against obstruction, vandalism, picketing, and other actions, or to protect patients and employees of such facilities from threats and harassment (see sidewalk interference).
Many of the bills filed in state legislatures across the country focus on abortion pills, abortion access for minors, and, in at least one state, how to undo protections for the procedure, The ...
For these reasons, abortion clinic leaders say that local law enforcement can be one of the most important community allies, potentially bolstering safe and legal access in states that have more ...
Future abortion-related prosecutions and civil cases pursued under a law called the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, will be permitted only in severe cases and ...
In 2005, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UN HRC) ordered Peru to compensate a woman (known as K.L.) for denying her a medically indicated abortion; this was the first time a United Nations Committee had held any country accountable for not ensuring access to safe, legal abortion, and the first time the committee affirmed that ...
A solid majority of Americans oppose a federal abortion ban as a rising number support access to abortions for any reason, a new poll finds, highlighting a politically perilous situation for ...