The landscape of US abortion law has been revealed in a... enacted abortion bans that prohibit virtually all procedures... Meanwhile, 18 states allow abortion up to 26 weeks, or just shy of...
The most emotional moment of last night’s Democratic National Convention was supposed to be Joe Biden’s farewell, after his party’s power brokers made clear he could not run again. And true, his address showed a graciousness in defeat that Donald Trump could never hope to understand. But the most moving speech of the evening was only a few minutes long, and it was given by a young woman from Kentucky. Her name was Hadley Duvall, and she spoke in a section devoted to the effects of abortion bans on regular people. She introduced herself as ...
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Mehmet Oz said in May that abortion at any stage of pregnancy... and abortion, seeking to know "why someone who's pro-life... supports abortion up until the moment of birth.” What...
Obstacles to abortions in some states mean that some people seeking to end a pregnancy will have a late stage abortion where it's legal--i.e. laws intended to ban abortions or to allow only very early abortions may be moving some abortions much later. The New Yorker has a photographic essay: "For several years, Morgan Nuzzo, a nurse-midwife, and her friend and colleague Diane Horvath, an ob-gyn, talked about opening a clinic that would provide abortions in all trimesters of pregnancy. In May, 20...
spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation ; induced expulsion of a human fetus ; expulsion of a fetus by a domestic animal often due to infection at any time before completion of pregnancy
Legislation which aims to introduce buffer zones around clinics providing abortions has been voted through its first stage in the Scottish Parliament. ; The bill, tabled by Scottish Green MSP Gillian Mackay, passed at stage one by 123 votes to one. ; The legislation would prevent any protests taking place within 200m (656ft) of clinics offering abortion services. ; Ms Mackay said the vote was a "big step towards" delivering the buffer zones.
an abortion if a woman is seeking one “solely” because... the abortion debate when the condition is becoming more widely... restrict abortion, not protect people with Down syndrome....
decide abortion access now depends on individual states. As... The increasing likelihood of abortion restrictions across the... the abortion. In 2020, the number of medication abortions...
The move comes after a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court in April 2019, which concluded that banning abortion in the early stages of pregnancy was a violation of the right to self...