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The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...
Thousands of activists are expected to converge on Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention, hoping to call attention to abortion rights, economic injustice and the war in Gaza ...
Wade and guaranteed the right to an abortion, with 62 percent of voters approving the measure and 38 percent opposed. [2] In August 2018, Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates Michael E. Busch endorsed efforts to codify the right to an abortion into the state constitution, citing fears that the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn its ruling ...
Illinois and Massachusetts: Legislation passed in both states allow married women equal rights to property and custody of their children. [25] Circa 1870. Illinois passes another law banning the sale of drugs that could cause induced abortions, allowing an exception for "the written prescription of some well-known and respectable practicing ...
Abortion rights advocates face similar landscape in Missouri, where groups have proposed 11 different amendments that would take different approaches to expanding abortion rights in the state ...
Wade in 2022, which removed the constitutional protection for abortion. Movements to amend state constitutions in California, Michigan, Ohio, and Vermont to protect abortion rights have already ...
These amendments are sponsored or supported by United States anti-abortion movements and opposed by the United States abortion rights movement. As of August 2022, none of these proposals have succeeded though Roe v. Wade was overturned in full by the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in 2022.
During the 2024 election cycle, several states had measures on the ballot regarding abortion access: Some expanded rights and protections, while others reinforced already-strict policies in place.