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On Thursday, the president issued pardons for 23 anti-abortion activists who were convicted of illegally blocking reproductive health clinics, violating a federal law. Lauren Handy made the cut.
Trump attempted to portray himself as a moderate on the issue, arguing abortion laws should be left to the states and criticizing some measures as too harsh. But he also repeatedly took credit for ...
Abortion-rights advocates are concerned about some of Makary’s stances on abortion, including him claiming on Fox News after the Supreme Court overturned Roe that fetuses between 15 and 20 weeks ...
An abortion-rights activist holds a box of mifepristone pills as demonstrators rally outside Supreme Court. A federal judge in Texas allowed for a 2022 case concerning the approval of the abortion ...
Mayes that instead of a 15-week ban on abortion passed by the state in 2022, that the state should follow a 1902 law, based on a pre-ratification 1864 law, that disallowed nearly any abortion except in the case of a medical emergency, [134] though the state government repealed the 1902 law in May 2024 to allow the 2022 law to take precedence. [135]
Trump, 78, issued a presidential memorandum reinstating the so-called Mexico City Policy, which prevents the federal government from funding groups that finance abortion procedures in foreign ...
As of 1994, federal law mandates all states to pay for abortion cases involving rape or incest. [15] On January 24, 2017, the House voted to make the Hyde Amendment (H.R. 7) permanent. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) stated, "We are a pro-life Congress", and he re-affirmed the government's commitment to restricting tax money to funding abortions. [17]
The legality of abortion in the United States and the various restrictions imposed on the procedure vary significantly, depending on the laws of each state or other jurisdiction, although there is no uniform federal law. Some states prohibit abortion at all stages of pregnancy, with few exceptions; others permit it up to a certain point in a ...