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Abortion is legal in Massachusetts up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. After 24 weeks, abortions may only be performed if a licensed physician determines it to be medically necessary. [108] Parental consent is required for minors under the age of 16. [109] In December 2020, the Massachusetts state legislature enshrined abortion rights into state law ...
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 ...
Up until 2019, under state law, North Carolina banned abortions performed after 20 weeks of pregnancy (N.C. General Statutes 14-44, 14-45, and provisions of 14-45.1) These laws permitted abortions ...
Of the 96 abortions carried out beyond 20 weeks, 53 were due to actual or probable fetal abnormality. [25] Canada: During the year 2019, approximately 87% of abortions occurred by 12 weeks, with 1.17% occurring after 21 weeks. [26] England and Wales: In 2015, 8% of abortions occurred after 12 weeks; 0.1% occurred at or over 24 weeks. [27]
(In 2020, 59 percent of Colorado voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have banned abortion after 22 weeks.) Florida. CURRENT LAW: Abortion laws in Florida have been in flux since Roe was ...
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]
Measure would protect abortion up to fetal viability and in cases where the pregnant person's health is in danger. Current state law allows abortion up to 15 weeks after the first day of the ...
Abortion in Arizona is legal up to the point of fetal viability as a result of Arizona Proposition 139 being put into the Arizona state constitution. [1] [2] It is the southernmost continental state where abortion is broadly protected. [3] As a territory, Arizona banned abortion in 1864, and although the law became unenforceable after the 1973 ...