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By the end of the 1800s, all states in the Union except Louisiana had therapeutic exceptions in their legislative bans on abortions. [4] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina and Oregon made reforms to their abortion laws, with most of these states providing more detailed medical guidance on when therapeutic abortions could be ...
Voters enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution, lawmakers expanded health care access to undocumented immigrants and a long-stalled effort to rein in prescription drug costs for state ...
In one 1996 case, the abortion clinic that performed an abortion on a 15-year-old Arkansas girl who was allegedly raped by her stepfather was denied Medicaid reimbursement by Huckabee. The State of Arkansas was involved in a lawsuit to determine whether the state would be required to stop accepting Medicaid benefits from the federal government ...
Flower Hospital occupied the old Morningside building at 512 North Boulder from 1925 to 1941. The hospital closed, and the building was remodeled for use by the Tulsa County Health Department. [3] City of Faith Hospital, founded by preacher Oral Roberts, opened at 81st Street and Lewis Avenue in 1981. The hospital and its related medical school ...
Gov. Mike Parson signed legislation denying Medicaid funds to abortion providers or affiliated entities, which by extension includes Planned Parenthood, even though abortion has been illegal in ...
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An Arkansas law banning abortion took effect when the court issued its ruling. Arkansas’ current ban allows abortion only to protect the mother’s life in a medical emergency. The proposal was viewed as a test of support for abortion rights in a Republican state where top elected officials have touted their opposition to abortion.
Harris v. McRae, 448 U.S. 297 (1980), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that states participating in Medicaid are not required to fund medically necessary abortions for which federal reimbursement was unavailable as a result of the Hyde Amendment, which restricted the use of federal funds for abortion. [1]