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New York was the second state, after Hawaii, to enact landmark abortion law legislation. [17] Unlike Hawaii, however, New York's abortion law did not have a 90-day residency requirement. Between 1970 and 1973, the New York General Assembly attempted to repeal their law that made abortion legal.
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 [1] The RHA repealed §4164 of the state Public Health Law.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]
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. [150] 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.
New York enacted a law on Monday intended to protect the state's doctors from prosecution by other states that have banned abortions when they prescribe and mail out abortion pills. New York ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, signed a bill Monday aimed at shielding the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion drugs after a New York physician was indicted for prescribing ...
A Texas judge Thursday ordered a New York OB-GYN to stop sending abortion pills to the Lone Star state and pay a $100,000 fine for sending the medications to a Texas woman, setting up a legal ...
[23] [19] [13] According to Cornell University constitutional law professor Michael C. Dorf, the amendment would protect the right to abortion in the state of New York by ensuring that prohibiting abortion would be an unconstitutional form of health-care discrimination because they would be "singling out one form of reproductive health care ...
A Texas judge on Thursday ordered a New York doctor to pay more than $100,000 in penalties for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, a ruling that could test “shield laws” in ...