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The Reproductive Health Act is a New York law enacted on January 22, 2019, that protects reproductive rights, decriminalized abortion, and eliminated several restrictions on voluntary abortions in the state. [1] The RHA repealed §4164 of the state Public Health Law. [2] The law has received national media attention. [3]
Governments sometimes take measures designed to afford legal protection of access to abortion.Such legislation often seeks to guard facilities which provide induced abortion against obstruction, vandalism, picketing, and other actions, or to protect patients and employees of such facilities from threats and harassment (see sidewalk interference).
Abortion is legal in New York. New York does not require a minor to notify a parent or guardian in order to obtain an abortion. [152] New York is known in the U.S. as a reproductive sanctuary state. This means that abortion is legal, and seen as health care provided by the state. There are approximately 252 clinics in New York that perform ...
In New York, abortion remains legal and accessible. We are lucky to live in a state that has leadership committed to protecting our reproductive rights. Now, we must make those protections permanent.
The state Legislature then separately codified the abortion coverage regulation into law in 2022. New York can continue to require companies with health insurance plans to cover medically ...
A proposed amendment to New York’s Constitution that's intended to protect abortion rights might appear on the ballot this fall without any mention of the word “abortion.” The state’s ...
California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Washington have passed laws to also protect telehealth actions when the provider prescribes abortion pills to a patient who is in an antiabortion state. [1] These shield laws have been enacted after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with Dobbs in June 2022 ...
State financial regulators approved the abortion coverage requirement in 2017, and the Legislature codified it into law in 2022. New York's high court hears case on abortion insurance coverage ...