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On January 28, 2023, the Minnesota state Senate passed a bill guaranteeing women's rights to abortion and other reproductive medicine which was signed into law on January 31. The bill prohibits state and local governments from attempting to restrict access to sterilization or prenatal care, while also requiring contraceptive cost compensation.
Abortion in Minnesota is legal at all stages of pregnancy [1] [2] and is restricted only to standards of good medical practice. [3] [4] The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled the Minnesota Constitution conferred a right to an abortion in 1995 and the DFL-led Minnesota Legislature passed and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into law a bill in 2023 to recognize a right to reproductive freedom and ...
In a legislature controlled by Republicans who overwhelmingly supported passage of measures limiting abortion access, Burke’s 2023 bill — one of five bills related to abortion filed last ...
A 5-to-6-week abortion ban that had been passed before Dobbs as a trigger law was struck down in January 2023 by the South Carolina Supreme Court, which said it violated the state constitution. [191] A newly passed 5-to-6-week ban went in effect in August 2023, after the justice who wrote the opinion in the original case retired; the new law ...
Out-of-state abortion seekers have sought care in South Carolina since a number of other states across the U.S. South greatly restricted abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022 ...
The Heartbeat Protection Act (SB 300) was passed by the Florida Senate, then passed by the Florida House of Representatives, and then signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis, all in April 2023. [52] The 2023 bill states that abortion would be illegal (with exceptions) in Florida if a "physician determines the gestational age of the fetus is ...
On May 22, 2023, the Minnesota state legislature passed an omnibus bill—signed into law the next day by Walz—that repealed all six subdivisions added by the 2015 Born Alive Infants Protection ...
The next month, the Ohio House amended the bill, and passed it, 56–40; the changes were ratified in the Senate, 18–13. [51] The bill was signed into law by Governor Mike DeWine on April 11, 2019. [52] [53] At the time the bill passed, only 27% of the state legislators were female. [54]