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Vice President Kamala Harris declared Tuesday that she supported changing Senate filibuster rules to allow a simple majority vote to codify the nationwide right for women to obtain an abortion.
That has real consequences. Decades of bills protecting civil rights, and more recently, voting rights reforms and an assault weapons ban, for example, have been stymied by failure to reach 60 ...
This leaves New York's current law allowing abortion up to 24 weeks and after 24 weeks for the absence of fetal viability or to protect the patient’s life or health, intact. Because voters ...
In December 2024, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills to a Texan woman by mail. Paxton's suit asserts the doctor's action violates Texas' abortion laws, but New York is a state with shield laws. The lawsuit is anticipated to challenge the validity of shield laws in light of Dobbs. [260]
Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday she wants to gut the Senate’s 60-vote legislative filibuster to push legislation codifying Roe v.Wade through Congress, upending more than a century of ...
The issue of abortion became a key issue in the concurrent 2024 United States Senate election in Maryland, in which Democratic nominee Angela Alsobrooks heavily criticized Republican nominee Larry Hogan for his 2022 veto of the Abortion Care Access Act. [24] Despite this, both candidates said they would vote for Question 1. [26] [27]
Abortion laws are generally stricter in conservative Southern states than they are in other parts of the country. In 2019, New York passed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), which repealed a pre-Roe provision that banned third-trimester abortions except in cases where the continuation of the pregnancy endangered a pregnant woman's life. [230] [231]
Residents of 10 states will vote on abortion-related ballot measures. A spate of recent reports have emerged about the life-threatening consequences of strict bans.