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The decision struck down many abortion laws, and it sparked an ongoing abortion debate in the United States about whether, or to what extent, abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, and what the role of moral and religious views in the political sphere should be.
The debate has become a political and legal issue in some countries with those who oppose abortion seeking to enact, maintain, and expand anti-abortion laws, while those who support abortion seek to repeal or ease such laws and expand access to the procedure. Abortion laws vary considerably between jurisdictions, ranging from outright ...
The official proposal dropped the definition of abortion, instead leaving it to the objecting individual to define abortion for him- or herself. Groups on both sides of the controversy believe the ban is intended to allow health workers to refuse to dispense IUDs and hormonal contraceptives, including emergency contraception.
The passage of the ballot measure effectively undoes Arizona’s current abortion law — which states that abortions are legal up until the 15th week of pregnancy, with an exception after that to ...
The Redstockings, a radical feminist group in New York, interrupted a 1969 hearing about proposed reforms to the state’s criminal abortion law, at which 14 men (mostly doctors and lawyers) and ...
Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr., a Biden appointee, questioned a lawyer for the Idaho Legislature on the lack of effort by state lawmakers to amend the abortion law to make clear that the ban’s ...
The same passage states in contrast, that murder is punishable by death. Most Jewish writers allowed abortion to save the mother's life, and hesitated to impose civil laws against abortion, feeling that most women would ignore them. [22] The Talmud deems the fetus to be part of its mother and has no "juridical personality". [23]
The Texas Supreme Court issued a per curiam decision Monday night, but did not actually weigh in on whether Cox’s condition qualified for an abortion under Texas law. Rather, it ruled that ...