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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 ...
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]
The state of abortion rights has been upended by the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. As of Nov. 6, more than a dozen states have banned abortions or no longer have ...
Nevada - PASSED. Abortion is currently legal in Nevada up to 24 weeks of pregnancy or if the pregnancy can be fatal for the mother. Question 6, or the Right to Abortion Initiative, asked voters to ...
The right to an abortion is determined at the state level, but local policies and neighborhood rules – such as control over required permits, zoning laws and noise ordinances – can indirectly ...
Casey, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of waiting periods because the Justices determined that they don't pose an "undue burden" or "substantial obstacle" to getting an abortion. [27] Many states require people seeking an abortion to have mandatory counseling before the procedure, and 28 of the states that require counseling have ...
The case is a first test of whether existing state abortion bans can be leveraged to penalize people who live outside of their state lines, or if these bans will be thwarted by shield laws like ...
Standard telehealth practice and policy is to consider medical care to have occurred where the patient is located. This means a state with an abortion ban would consider a medical care provider to have broken that state's laws if that provider used telehealth to provide abortion care to a patient located in a state that bans abortion.