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Abortion in the U.S. state of Virginia is legal up to the end of the second trimester of a pregnancy. [1] Before the year 1900, abortion remained largely illegal in Virginia, reflecting a widespread trend in many U.S. states during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Abortion was viewed as a criminal act and subject to state laws that prohibited it.
2012 – The Mississippi State Legislature passed a law requiring abortion clinics to have doctors on staff with hospital admitting privileges. [151] 2012 – Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law in April 2012 abortion restrictions that prohibited the procedure after 20 weeks. [152] [153] The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ...
In a state with one of the country’s most-restrictive abortion laws on the books, a majority of Missouri voters heralded the passage of Amendment 3, which establishes the constitutional right to ...
Abortion is legal in Virginia up to 25 weeks of pregnancy. Parental consent is required for minors under the age of 18. [223] In 2020, Virginia governor, Ralph Northam signed laws that removed many of the restrictions on abortion that had been in place for decades.
Democrats campaigned on a promise to protect access to abortion in Virginia, which has some of the South's most permissive laws and is the only state in the region that has not imposed new ...
If and when the Supreme Court follows through on a draft opinion reversing a landmark abortion-rights decision, Virginia’s relatively lax regulations on abortion would be the final word on the ...
The Repeal Act (HB 2491) was a 2019 bill proposed in Virginia by Delegate Kathy Tran that would have repealed some of the state's restrictions on abortion.The bill would have reduced the number of physicians required to approve a third-term abortion (from three to one), and lowered the threshold for that approval to the requirement that there be a medical reason for the abortion, from the ...
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