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While the legal landscape around abortion in Michigan was unclear in the wake of the Dobbs decision due to various conflicting pre-Roe laws that were still on the books, in November 2022, Michigan voters passed a state constitutional amendment that explicitly added the right to abortion and contraception to the Michigan state constitution. [112]
The US Supreme Court's decision in 1973's Roe v. Wade ruling meant the state could no longer regulate abortion in the first trimester. [12]On May 15, 2018, eleven days after Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed SF 359 into law, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc., Jill Meadows, M.D., and Emma Goldman Clinic (petitioners) filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief in state ...
The Iowa Supreme Court announced Thursday it will rule Friday on a 2023 law that would ban most abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy. It is the latest in a long chain of legal disputes over ...
Political movements soon coalesced around the legalization of abortion and liberalization of existing laws. By the first half of the 20th century, many countries had begun to liberalize abortion laws, at least when performed to protect the woman's life and in some cases on the woman's request.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state's so-called "fetal heartbeat" abortion law can take effect, which bans nearly all abortions after a doctor can detect cardiac activity in an ...
Friday's ruling on whether Iowa's 6-week abortion ban can go into effect follows a 3-3 deadlock in 2023. Iowa now allows abortion at up to 20 weeks. ... abortions in Iowa. At issue is a 2023 law ...
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.
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