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Abortion in West Virginia is illegal [1] except in cases of rape or incest (under 14 weeks), fatal fetal abnormalities, and when the mother’s life is at risk from a pregnancy. [ 2 ] The number of clinics in West Virginia has declined steeply from the original nineteen over the years, with ten in 1982, five in 1992, two in 2014, and one in 2017.
Abortion is legal in Massachusetts up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. After 24 weeks, abortions may only be performed if a licensed physician determines it to be medically necessary. [108] Parental consent is required for minors under the age of 16. [109] In December 2020, the Massachusetts state legislature enshrined abortion rights into state law ...
Anti-abortion activists have used the so-called concept of “after-birth abortions” to paint loose abortion laws as radical. But there is no state where a baby can be legally killed after birth.
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A West Virginia coalition that helps support a network of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in the state is receiving $1 million in taxpayer dollars to distribute to organizations committed to ...
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.
The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (codified at 18 U.S.C. § 1531), Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 (codified at 18 U.S.C. § 248), and Comstock Act of 1873 (codified at 18 U.S.C. 552, 18 U.S.C. 1461, 18 U.S.C. 1462, and 18 U.S.C.1463) are some of the few pieces of existing federal law that provide substantive criminal ...
West Virginia can restrict the sale of the abortion pill, despite federal regulators' approval of it as a safe and effective medication, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Robert ...