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The bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives but was rejected by the U.S. Senate. [177] After the Dobbs decision, Merrick Garland, the U.S. Attorney General, asserted that under federal law, states do not have the right to restrict access to FDA-approved abortion pills, but Louisiana passed a law to ban mailing them. [178]
Bill number(s) Date introduced Sponsor(s) # of cosponsors Latest status 114th Congress: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act H.R. 3504: September 15, 2015 Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) 98 Referred to the House Judiciary Committee. Passed the House of Representatives (248–177–1) [7] S. 2066: September 22, 2015 Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) 38
Governor Kevin Stitt signed three bills in 2021 that introduced new restrictions on abortion. One bill would revoke a medical license for people who perform abortions, another would ban abortions if a heartbeat is detected, and the third would require board-certified OB-GYN doctors be the only ones who can perform abortions. [175]
Bills filed so far suggest a focus on further limiting access to medication abortion, the two-drug regimen that can safely be taken from home with virtual medical oversight if needed.
A different six-week abortion ban, HB 59, was previously introduced in Texas by Representative Phil King on July 18, 2013. [31] The bill did not pass. [32] [33] In 2019, another six-week abortion ban was introduced as HB 1500, which was jointly authored by Representatives Briscoe Cain, Phil King, the late Dan Flynn, Tan Parker, and Rick Miller ...
Furthermore, while the anti-abortion movement claims that bills mandating a woman listen to her conceptus' heartbeat would increase the likelihood of them changing their mind, the abortion-rights community, with the support of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, opposes "informed-consent" bills because they threaten to, if passed, "significantly ...
The bill, Senate Bill 276, would also criminalize “coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud,” which would prohibit someone from knowingly using the medications to cause or attempt to cause ...
Nebraska is one of nine states expected to vote on abortion rights in November, as abortion rights advocates seek to undo new abortion bans and restrictions passed by Republican-controlled states ...