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A Texas medical panel on Friday rebuffed calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive abortions bans in the U.S., which physicians say is dangerously unclear and has forced ...
Doctors and patient advocates are alarmed over the possibility of the Supreme Court tightening access to the abortion medications mifepristone. A 'dangerous precedent': Doctors and patient ...
In April 2024 a man in Texas invoked the Texas Heartbeat Act to bring legal action against his ex-partner and healthcare providers in Colorado for her abortion there. [17] In December 2024 Texas sued a New York doctor for allegedly prescribing abortion pills to a 20-year-old Dallas-area woman.
Alaska does not require a minor to notify a parent or guardian in order to obtain an abortion. [10] [11] In September 2024, an Alaska superior court judge struck down the requirement that only licensed physicians provide abortions, meaning that the procedure can now also be legally performed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants. [12]
Instead, GOP leaders accuse abortion rights advocates of deliberately spreading misinformation and doctors of intentionally denying services in an effort to undercut the bans and make a political ...
The Alliance's claims that it might treat patients who suffered complications from using mifepristone were also rejected, as Kavanaugh wrote "Federal law fully protects doctors against being required to provide abortions or other medical treatment against their consciences — and therefore breaks any chain of causation between FDA’s relaxed ...
In Texas, for instance, even if previous ultrasounds had indicated severe congenital defects, a person seeking an abortion was required under a 2012 law to have another ultrasound done, "administered by [their] abortion doctor, and [they had to] listen to a state-mandated description of the fetus [they were] about to abort", though state-issued ...
Abortion is going to remain a major issue in politics, policy and the courts in the U.S. in 2024, even though most of the states that were expected to impose restrictions have already done so. The ...