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In states where abortion is legal, several classes of restrictions on the procedure may exist, such as parental consent or notification laws, requirements that patients be shown an ultrasound before obtaining an abortion, mandatory waiting periods, and counseling requirements. From 1973 to 2022, Supreme Court rulings in Roe v.
BALLOT INITIATIVE: Proposition 139 would make abortion legal until the point that the fetus is viable—meaning it can survive outside the pregnant person’s body—which is generally up to the ...
Most of the measures seek to protect abortion access until fetal viability, or the point at which a fetus could survive outside of the uterus, which typically comes around 24 weeks… Abortion is ...
During the 2024 elections, voters in 10 states had the opportunity to weigh in on abortion rights, through amendments that aimed to enshrine protections into their state constitutions.
Abortion is already largely protected in the state, with voters having cleared the way for the legalization of abortion up to 24 weeks and in the case of medical emergencies back in a 1990 referendum.
On July 11, 2012, a Mississippi federal judge ordered an extension of his temporary order to allow the state's only abortion clinic to stay open. The order was to stay in place until U.S. District Judge Daniel Porter Jordan III could review newly drafted rules on how the Mississippi Department of Health would administer a new abortion law. The ...
The proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot in this crucial southwestern battleground would create a “fundamental right” to an abortion up until fetal viability, or about the 24th week ...
Before the vote, Colorado was already one of nine states that allow abortion at any point in pregnancy. Because voters passed the measure, it will go into effect. Abortion remains legal.