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The bill was signed into law by Governor Ronald Reagan, after the legislature removed as a reason for legal abortion that a fetus had severe physical deformities. [2] 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. [2]
Due to tight restrictions in neighboring states, as well as cost issues, thousands of women come from out of state to have abortions in Georgia. There were 30,013 legal abortions in 2014, and 31,009 in 2015. 14.5% of all abortions carried out in 2015 were for out of state residents. [11] There is an active abortion rights movement in the state.
Abortion is legal in Montana up to the point of fetal viability. A 2024 Montana Supreme Court decision established that minors do not need parental consent to have an abortion, overruling a state law. [130] The Montana Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that abortion was a right implicitly granted by the state constitution. [131]
Abortion is still legal in Georgia, with a law that bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.. The exact point in a pregnancy at which abortion is no longer legal will vary from person to ...
The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected one argument against the state's current abortion law, which bans most abortions after six weeks. The decision returns the case to the Superior Court of ...
The bans have kicked off a wave of legal challenges in several states. NBC News is tracking the status of state-level abortion laws and restrictions across the country, as well as exceptions in ...
Nevada - PASSED. Abortion is currently legal in Nevada up to 24 weeks of pregnancy or if the pregnancy can be fatal for the mother. Question 6, or the Right to Abortion Initiative, asked voters to ...
After 22 weeks, abortions additionally require approval of a three-member medical committee. The law governing abortion was instituted in 2000. [1] [2] The abortion rate in Georgia dropped sharply during the 1990s, from 41.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 in 1992 to 21.9 in 1996 [3] and 19.1 in 2005. [4]