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[6] [7] Hawaii, New York, Alaska, and Washington were the first states to repeal their abortion laws in the pre-Roe v. Wade era. [8] Still, state law in 1971 required that any woman getting a legal abortion in the state needed to be a resident for some specific period between 30 and 90 days. [7]
The cities of Austin, [19] Dallas, [20] Denton, [21] El Paso, [22] and Houston [23] have enacted resolutions instructing city officials to deprioritize enforcement of the state's abortion laws, but anyone violating the state's abortion laws in those cities remains subject to criminal prosecution by the district attorney (a county official) and ...
June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a Louisiana state law placing hospital-admission requirements on abortion clinics doctors was unconstitutional. The law mirrored a Texas state law that the Court found unconstitutional in 2016 in Whole
An April poll found that 45% of Texans think the state’s abortion laws should be less strict, 23% think they should be kept as they are and 20% think they should be more strict, according to a ...
Mar. 14—By Madaleine Rubin, The Texas Tribune The Texas Medical Board will consider language to clarify what qualifies as a medical exception to the state's abortion laws at an upcoming March 22 ...
In Texas, that means a trigger law, House Bill 1280, will soon criminalize abortion at any time after fertilization. The ban will take effect 30 days after the final judgment in Dobbs v.
The Complaint avers that Texas enacted the law "in open defiance of the Constitution". [210] The relief requested from the U.S. District Court in Austin, Texas, includes a declaration that the Texas Act is unconstitutional, and an injunction against state actors, as well as any and all private individuals who may bring a SB 8 action.
This 2014 map shows 60-mile access to abortion providers in Texas. An abortion clinic is a medical facility that provides abortions. Abortion clinics may be private or public medical practices or nonprofit organizations. In 27 major cities, and much of rural America, most people live 100 miles or more from an abortion clinic. [2]