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The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
Data shows how abortion has changed in America one year after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, removing federal abortion protections.
In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state with relatively strict controls on abortion, the abortion rate by state of occurrence dropped from 4 in 1000 women aged 15–44 for 2017 to 0.1 for 2020, because 57% of abortion recipients went out of state in 2017, while 99% did so in 2020. [28]
More than a week after a leaked draft opinion showed the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade , major U.S. companies with female CEOs have little or nothing to say about the matter.
Wade, the law provides that any non-government employee or official, excepting sexual perpetrators who conceived the fetus, may sue anyone that performs or induces an abortion in violation of the statute, as well as anyone who "aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion, including paying for or reimbursing the costs of an ...
Indiana was the first state to impose strict abortion restrictions after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade, the 1973 case that legalized abortion in America.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, representing Alabama abortion providers and clinics, challenged the order, requesting a temporary restraining order. On March 30, U.S. District Judge Myron Herbert Thompson granted the temporary restraining order, saying the attorney general's interpretation of the March 27 order was overly broad ...
Demonstrators protest outside the Supreme Court two years ago after its 5-4 decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion. Since then, UC Davis law professor Mary Ziegler has become a ...