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The abortion debate most commonly relates to the induced abortion of a pregnancy, which is also how the term "abortion" is used in a legal sense. [nb 1] The terms "elective abortion" and "voluntary abortion" refer to the interruption of pregnancy, before viability, at the request of the woman but not for medical reasons. [34]
The abortion debate is a longstanding and contentious discourse that touches on the moral, legal, medical, and religious aspects of induced abortion. [1] In English-speaking countries, the debate has two major sides, commonly referred to as the "pro-choice" and "pro-life" movements.
It seemed only logical after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade that abortion rates would go down and births would go up. Instead, the opposite happened: Abortions went up last year and the ...
In New York, abortions are currently legal up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. Afterwards, the procedure is only allowed in cases where the pregnancy or the mother’s life is at risk.
Abortion is legal in New York up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. New York does not require a minor to notify a parent or guardian in order to obtain an abortion. [146] New York is known in the U.S. as a reproductive sanctuary state. This means that abortion is legal, and seen as health care provided by the state.
The number of abortions performed each month is about the same as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the nationwide right to abortion more than a year and a half ago, a new ...
The Marshall Project reports on how reproductive rights lawyers, advocacy groups, abortion providers and their patients are responding to the new legal reality of the post-Roe landscape and what ...
In Latin America, abortion on request is only legal in Cuba (1965), Uruguay (2012), [39] Argentina (2021), [36] Colombia (2022) [40] and in parts of Mexico. [41] [42] Abortions are completely banned in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, and only allowed in certain restricted circumstances in most other Latin American ...