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Abortion in West Virginia is illegal [1] except in cases of rape or incest (under 14 weeks), fatal fetal abnormalities, and when the mother’s life is at risk from a pregnancy. [2] The number of clinics in West Virginia has declined steeply from the original nineteen over the years, with ten in 1982, five in 1992, two in 2014, and one in 2017 ...
"After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?" [1] is a controversial article published by Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini. Available online from 2012 and published in the Journal of Medical Ethics in 2013, [2] it argues to call child euthanasia or infanticide "after-birth abortion" and highlights similarities between abortion and euthanasia.
This color-coded map illustrates the current legal status of elective-specific abortion procedures in each of the individual states, U.S. territories, and federal district. [a] A colored border indicates a more stringent restriction or ban that is blocked by legal injunction.
Anti-abortion activists have used the so-called concept of “after-birth abortions” to paint loose abortion laws as radical. But there is no state where a baby can be legally killed after birth.
A West Virginia coalition that helps support a network of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in the state is receiving $1 million in taxpayer dollars to distribute to organizations committed to ...
West Virginia can restrict the sale of the abortion pill, despite federal regulators' approval of it as a safe and effective medication, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Robert ...
Abortion is the termination of human pregnancy, often performed in the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. In 1973, the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade recognized a constitutional right to obtain an abortion without excessive government restriction, and in 1992 the Court in Planned Parenthood v.
City councilors in West Virginia's Democrat-controlled capital city voted against a proposal from the state's long-time abortion provider to start a syringe service program in one of the country's ...