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The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...
Written in the first person, it is formatted to read as the "diary" of a fetus, chronicling the process of fetal development from an in-utero perspective, beginning with conception on 2 October and ending in an induced abortion on 28 December. The piece is intended to make readers reconsider their position on the morality of abortion. [3]
A former Democratic congressman running for Georgia State Supreme Court filed a federal lawsuit Monday claiming a state agency is unconstitutionally trying to block him from talking about abortion.
It's entirely conceivable that he'll buy into this new attempt to outlaw a safe and effective abortion procedure, and send the three states' threadbare case back up the judicial pipeline. So ...
In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state very hostile to abortion rights, the abortion rate by state of occurrence dropped from 4 in 1000 women aged 15–44 for 2017 to 0.1 for 2020, because 57% of abortion recipients went out of state in 2017, while 99% did so in 2020. [318]
Arizona is one of 21 states rapidly instituting draconian abortion laws in the wake of the fall of Roe vs. Wade in an attempt to punish women physically, emotionally and financially.
Casey, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of waiting periods because the Justices determined that they don't pose an "undue burden" or "substantial obstacle" to getting an abortion. [27] Many states require people seeking an abortion to have mandatory counseling before the procedure, and 28 of the states that require counseling have ...
In Arkansas, state health officials announced a stunning statistic for 2023: The total number of abortions in the state, where some 1.5 million women live, was zero. In nearly a dozen states with ...