The legality of abortion in the United States and the various restrictions imposed on the procedure vary significantly, depending on the laws of each...
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In the United States, abortion is a divisive issue in politics and culture wars, though a majority of Americans support access to abortion. Abortion laws...
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these laws is to ensure that providers (in the state where abortion is legal) can perform abortions for patients who traveled from states where abortion is...
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common law in England and the United States, abortion was illegal anytime after quickening—when the movements of the fetus could first be felt by the woman...
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key point in abortion rights in the United States was the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which struck down most state laws restricting...
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Both the Guttmacher Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regularly report abortion statistics in the United States. They...
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that abortion should be illegal in all or most cases. Abortion was a criminal offense for women by 1950. By 2007, the state had informed consent laws on...
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Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition. State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and...
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leave the state or forced them to give birth while jeopardizing their health. The legal status of abortion in Texas is due to a trigger law passed in July...
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Comstock Act of 1873 (redirect from United States Comstock Laws)
The Comstock Act of 1873 is a series of current provisions in Federal law that generally criminalize the involvement of the United States Postal Service...
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In Eswatini, abortion is a criminal offence. The 2005 Constitution of Eswatini allows exceptions if approved by a doctor. Providing or receiving an illegal...
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Abortion is the termination of human pregnancy, often performed in the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. In 1973, the United States Supreme Court in Roe v...
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perform an abortion, and California adopted a version of this code. In 2002, the California State Legislature passed a law guaranteeing women the right to...
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abortion in Missouri is illegal, with abortions only being legal in cases of medical emergency and several additional laws making access to abortion services...
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Abortion in Alabama is illegal. Historically, Alabama's abortion laws have evolved from strict regulations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to...
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Abortion is illegal in Kentucky. There were laws in Kentucky about abortion by 1900, including ones with therapeutic exceptions. In 1998, the state passed...
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expression in state laws which prohibited or restricted abortions in a variety of ways. (See Abortion in the United States.) The anti-abortion movement...
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perform an abortion. A version of this was enacted into law in 1967.[citation needed] Colorado became the first state to decriminalize abortion in cases of...
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apart to be able to obtain an abortion, in a law approved by Republican Governor Rick Scott in 2015. The exceptions to the 6 week gestational age (since...
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notification law that had been established in 2010. Between 1982 and 1992, the number of abortion clinics in the state decreased by 1, going from 14 in 1982 to...
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Abortion in the U.S. state of Virginia is legal up to the end of the second trimester of a pregnancy. Before the year 1900, abortion remained largely illegal...
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Abortion in Ohio is legal up to the point of fetal viability as a result of abortion rights being placed into the Ohio State Constitution by November 2023...
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Abortion in Illinois is legal. Laws about abortion dated to the early 1800s in Illinois; the first criminal penalties related to abortion were imposed...
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Abortion in Europe varies considerably between countries and territories due to differing national laws and policies on its legality, availability of...
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Abortion in Utah is legally performed under a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the state's trigger law, which bans abortion. According...
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the late 1850s, its main political rival has been...
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exception where they did not allow abortion in the case of incest. The state passed a law in the 2000s banning abortions at 22 weeks because they alleged...
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elective abortions in Wisconsin are under dispute after the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 24, 2022. Abortion opponents...
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Since 2021, abortion has no longer been a federal crime in Mexico. However, the criminal law in Mexico varies by state. On 7 September 2021, the Mexican Supreme...
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Roe v. Wade (category United States abortion case law)
struck down many abortion laws, and caused an ongoing abortion debate in the United States about whether, or to what extent, abortion should be legal,...
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