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Bas relief at Angkor Wat, c. 1150, depicting a demon performing an abortion upon a woman who has been sent to the underworld. The Vedic and smrti laws of India reflected a concern with preserving the male seed of the three upper castes; and the religious courts imposed various penances for the woman or excommunication for a priest who provided an abortion. [3]
Performing an abortion because of economic or social reasons is accepted in 37% of countries. Performing abortion only on the basis of a woman's request is allowed in 34% of countries, including in Canada, most European countries and China. [44] The exact scope of each legal ground also varies.
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. [35]
2024 - Abortion was legalized for up to 14 weeks of pregnancy in Indonesia in cases of medical emergency and rape. [329] 2024 - Arizona’s abortion ban was repealed through legislation passed by Democratic lawmakers and five Republican lawmakers in the Arizona state legislature, and signed by Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs on 2 May 2024. [330]
Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that made access to legal abortion a constitutional right in the United States, has been overturned by the Supreme Court, disrupting nearly 50 years of precedent ...
The fight over the constitutional right to an abortion reached its zenith, with the Supreme Court overturning Roe. Roe v. Wade to now: A timeline of the Supreme Court abortion debate
The case was a seminal one in the history of abortion decisions in the United States. It was the first case to provide an opportunity to overturn Roe since two liberal U.S. Associate Justices , William J. Brennan Jr. and Thurgood Marshall , had been replaced with the George H. W. Bush -appointed Justices David Souter and Clarence Thomas .
February-March 2024: Trump flirts with a national abortion ban. After reports surfaced that he told others he was considering a federal abortion ban at 16 weeks, his campaign dismissed them as ...