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  2. Trigger law - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] [7] When Roe v. Wade was overturned on 24 June 2022, [8] some of these laws were in effect, and presumably enforceable, immediately. [9] Other states' trigger laws took effect 30 days after the overturn date, and others take effect upon certification by either the governor or attorney general. [9]

  3. Roe v. Wade - Wikipedia

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    The majority opinion cited Roe v. Wade to assert that privacy itself was a fundamental right, while procreation implicitly counted as "among the rights of personal privacy protected under the Constitution." [254] In his dissenting opinion, Justice Thurgood Marshall stated that Roe v. Wade "reaffirmed its initial decision in Buck v.

  4. United States abortion-rights movement - Wikipedia

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    Albert Wynn and Gloria Feldt on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to rally for legal abortion on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The United States abortion-rights movement (also known as the pro-choice movement) is a sociopolitical movement in the United States supporting the view that a woman should have the legal right to an elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy ...

  5. "Trigger laws" would automatically ban or restrict abortion ...

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    The fight over abortion rights has exploded nationwide following the release of the draft opinion saying the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. Several states have plans in effect to ...

  6. Types of abortion restrictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A 1997 Louisiana law creates a civil cause of action for abortion-related damages, including damage to the unborn, for up to ten years after the abortion. The same law also bars the state's Patient's Compensation Fund, which limits malpractice liability for participating physicians, from insuring against abortion-related claims.

  7. Timeline of reproductive rights legislation - Wikipedia

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    2022 – The 2019 trigger law in Kentucky took effect after the ruling for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was delivered, which overturned Roe v. Wade. It made all abortions illegal in Kentucky except when medically mandatory to prevent the patient from dying or getting a "life-sustaining organ" permanently impaired.

  8. United States anti-abortion movement - Wikipedia

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    Before the Supreme Court 1973 decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, anti-abortion views predominated and found expression in state laws which prohibited or restricted abortions in a variety of ways. (See Abortion in the United States.) The anti-abortion movement became politically active and dedicated to the reversal of the Roe v.

  9. Abortion law in the United States by state - Wikipedia

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    In order to avoid traditional constitutional challenges based on Roe v. Wade, the law provides that any non-government employee or official, excepting sexual perpetrators who conceived the fetus, may sue anyone that performs or induces an abortion in violation of the statute, as well as anyone who "aids or abets the performance or inducement of ...