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National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, 585 U.S. 755 (2018), was a case before the Supreme Court of the United States addressing the constitutionality of California's FACT Act, which mandated that crisis pregnancy centers provide certain disclosures about state services.
Alaska, Hawaii, California, and New York were the only four states that made abortion legal between 1967 and 1970 that did not require a reason to request an abortion. [4] California amended its abortion law in 1967 to address the disconnect between legal and medical justifications for therapeutic exceptions.
The 1821 abortion law of Connecticut was the first known law passed in the United States to restrict abortion. Although this law did not completely outlaw abortions, it placed heavier restrictions, as it prevented people from attempting or receiving abortions, which was generally through the consumption of poison, during the first four months ...
The case is the latest in a series of legal battles over emergency abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 ruling that allowed states to ban the procedure.
Fifty-five years ago this month, California enacted the nation's most liberal abortion law. Back then, more legislators used to think for themselves, columnist George Skelton writes.
The case underscores the widespread challenges of abortion care access in the U.S. since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 . Bonta noted that Nusslock's "story illustrates, even here in ...
No one expects a judge's rollback of Georgia's abortion ban to be the last word; Catholic hospital in California illegally denied emergency abortion, state attorney general says; A chemical cloud moving around Atlanta's suburbs prompts a new shelter-in-place alert; Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
The State Legislature amended California's abortion law in 1967 with the Therapeutic Abortion Act, signed by Governor Ronald Reagan in June, which extended the right to an abortion in cases of rape and incest up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. [5] In 1969, the California Supreme Court issued a ruling in People v.