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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]
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 ...
Both campaigns have touted support from prominent abortion advocates, with Kim getting the endorsement of the National Organization for Women of New Jersey PAC, which noted that its decision ...
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]
Governor of Arizona Katie Hobbs and state Attorney General Kris Mayes are both supporters of abortion rights, elected in 2022 as part of a nationwide backlash to the Dobbs decision. In July 2023, Hobbs issued an executive order stripping local prosecutors of their ability to file prosecutions over the 15-week ban, or (if it had been revived in ...
Abortion bans often have exceptions for rape, incest and lethal fetal defects. These exceptions presuppose that in some cases, the suffering of pregnant women matters enough to outweigh whatever ...
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 ...
Aug 10, 2023; Trenton, NJ, USA; Rep. Andy Kim pays his respects to the late Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver as she lies in state in the Rotunda of the New Jersey State House on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in ...