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Abortion was illegal in North Dakota from 2022 to 2024, until Judge Bruce Romanick ruled that the state's abortion ban violated the Constitution of North Dakota's equality provisions. [ 159 ] [ 160 ] The law technically made exceptions to save the life of the pregnant woman, or, until 6 weeks into a pregnancy, in cases of rape or incest.
In Texas, the largest state to ban abortion, the 2024 election eliminated the fear that pushing for new restrictions would result in political blowback, said John Seago, the head of Texas Right to ...
At the same time, infant deaths rose in states with abortion bans, according to another Johns Hopkins study. Analyzing birth and death records from 2012 to 2023, Bell’s team noted 478 more ...
In 14 states that enacted abortion bans, the two studies looked at infant deaths, before a child’s first birthday, and birth rates among females ages 15 to 44, defined as of reproductive age ...
A six-week abortion ban, also called a "fetal heartbeat bill" by proponents, is a law in the United States which makes abortion illegal as early as six weeks gestational age (two weeks after a woman's first missed period), which is when proponents claim that a "fetal heartbeat" can be detected.
Standard telehealth practice and policy is to consider medical care to have occurred where the patient is located. This means a state with an abortion ban would consider a medical care provider to have broken that state's laws if that provider used telehealth to provide abortion care to a patient located in a state that bans abortion.
Nebraska voters instead approved cementing the state’s current 12-week abortion ban in the state constitution. The fight over abortion also continues in state legislatures and courts.
More than a dozen US states have banned or severely restricted access to abortion. View CNN’s abortion law map to see where abortions are legal, banned, or in limbo.