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The exceptions in the law were established in April 2023; previously, under a trigger law that went into effect after Dobbs, there were no exceptions to the state's abortion ban, though a doctor charged under the law could assert an affirmative defense that their actions were necessary to save their patient's life. [203]
Anti-abortion advocates and lawmakers long championed the prospect of ending abortion in Missouri, but two years after the state’s ban took effect data shows thousands of Missouri women are ...
When the Missouri House in 2019 debated the bill that became the state’s abortion ban, then-state Rep. Bryan Spencer quickly raised —and praised—the proposal’s lack of exceptions for ...
The legal status of abortion in Texas is due to a trigger law passed in July 2021 that came in effect on August 25, 2022, as a consequence of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade. [12] The law makes no exception for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. [2]
There was an eight percent decline in the abortion rate in Missouri between 2014 and 2017, from 4.4 to 4.0 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. Missouri was the first state to enforce its abortion ban after Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was decided in 2022. From 2022 to 2024, abortions were only legal in cases of ...
A Texas medical panel on Friday rebuffed calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive abortions bans in the U.S., which physicians say is dangerously unclear and has forced ...
It was most strongly opposed in the Ozarks in southern Missouri. Missouri was the first state to enforce its ban after Dobbs was decided. Abortion access was restored in Missouri in February 2025. [5] Specifically, clinics started providing abortions again on February 15, 2025. [6]
A Missouri judge on Friday temporarily struck down several laws that Planned Parenthood clinics have said made access to abortion all but impossible across the state. Among the laws Jackson County ...