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Then, Wednesday, less than 24 hours after Ohio's attorney general - an anti-abortion Republican - slammed the Indianapolis Star for first reporting the story, law enforcement officials in Franklin County, Ohio, arraigned a 27-year-old man in the rape of the girl. (upr.org)
I certainly didn't mind that the story's author labeled us as "anti-abortion. (jillstanek.com)
These countries share with Chile the dubious honor of having the most restrictive anti-abortion laws both in Latin America and globally. (worldcrunch.com)
Ted Cruz supported the Texas bill HB2, the Texas anti-abortion law that has already shut down more than half of the abortion providers in the state and has forced some women to wait as long as 20 days, drive hundreds of miles, and make multiple trips to access safe, legal abortion. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
The dangers facing women at almost every stage of pregnancy in Poland's anti-abortion climate - and the strong tactics of its ultra-Catholic anti-abortion groups - has bolstered the important work carried out by Wydrzyńska and the organisation she co-founded and volunteers for, Aborcyjny Dream Team (Abortion Dream Team in English, or ADT). (vice.com)
14. I can't stand hypocritical anti-abortion people. (bookreviewsandmore.ca)
Georgia was the fourth state this year to pass anti-abortion "heartbeat" legislation, but Democratic presidential candidates have taken aim at the state's law banning most abortions after six weeks that's set to go into effect in January. (cnn.com)
This year, a series of strict anti-abortion bills have been passed with the intention to reshape women's access to the procedure. (cnn.com)
A society that requires women to bring pregnancies to term without addressing the burdens that can accompany motherhood demonstrates that it is possible-and all too common-to be anti-abortion without really being pro-life. (commonwealmagazine.org)
The vote came after 59% of state voters in November agreed to write anti-abortion language in the Alabama Constitution, saying the state recognizes the rights of the 'unborn. (chicagotribune.com)

Missouri now bans almost all abortions, which Corley said is "completely out of line with voters. (yahoo.com)
Still, many things remain uncertain, including whether bans will stand up to legal challenges, whether access to abortion pills will become the next target and if the ban on abortion will lead to attacks on other constitutional rights like same-sex marriage. (nbcnews.com)
Abortion bans went into effect or were scheduled to soon be enacted in 13 states that had "trigger laws" after the ruling was handed down on Friday. (nbcnews.com)
Are there exceptions to the bans for cases of rape and incest? (nbcnews.com)
Among the 41 abortion bans likely to be implemented in 26 states, only 10 have exceptions for rape and incest, the Guttmacher Institute found. (nbcnews.com)
States with abortion bans have focused punishment on the providers and not those seeking an abortion. (nbcnews.com)
While penalties vary, prosecutors in states with abortion bans could charge abortion providers with some class of felony. (nbcnews.com)
The prosecutors from 29 states, territories and Washington, D.C., signed a joint statement that said, in part, that enforcing abortion bans would "hinder our ability to hold perpetrators accountable, take resources away from the enforcement of serious crime, and inevitably lead to the retraumatization and criminalization of victims of sexual violence. (nbcnews.com)
Yes, people who live in states with bans can still receive care in states where abortion is legal. (nbcnews.com)
NBC News analyzed the distance to the nearest open abortion clinic from major cities in 21 states that either have pre-existing or pending state-level abortion bans that will go into effect. (nbcnews.com)
In opposition, Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan argued that this will have far-reaching impacts on women's rights-with the decision still allowing for bans on abortion. (kptv.com)
Bans on public funding for abortion services have severely restricted access to safe abortion care for women, disproportionately affecting low-income and minority women. (prochoice.org)
Legal bans on pro-North Korean activity affect legitimate political expression, and members of the press can face pressure from the government over their coverage of or commentary on inter-Korean relations. (freedomhouse.org)
Many abortion rights advocates and groups have mobilized to try to cement protections in states with abortion bans. (krvs.org)
Matthews, who has spoken with Corley about polling work but has not been paid by her organization, recently took a survey of states with strict abortion bans - including Missouri. (krvs.org)
Although the Senate added a narrow exception for cases when a fetus is diagnosed with a condition "incompatible with life," this bill is unconstitutional as it does not contain an adequate exception to protect women's health and it bans legal abortion care protected under the Roe v. Wade decision. (prochoice.org)
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization challenges the constitutionality of a Mississippi statute that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, well before viability. (heritage.org)
The Supreme Court signaled that it will focus squarely on Roe 's "essential holding" REF by agreeing to decide whether all bans on elective abortion before viability are unconstitutional. (heritage.org)
The bill weaponizes fetal heartbeat, which is by all accounts an arbitrary standard that bans abortion long before the point of fetal viability," Lee said in an email to Reuters. (secularprolife.org)
Abortion rights supporters stand during a news conference by Presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Thursday, May 16, 2019 to discuss abortion bans in Georgia and across the country. (cnn.com)
Abortion bans continue popping up across the United States, leaving many people wondering where their states stand. (cnn.com)
Are these abortion bans in effect? (cnn.com)
Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio and Georgia recently approved bans on abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can occur in about the sixth week of pregnancy. (chicagotribune.com)

Some states prohibit abortion at all stages of pregnancy with few exceptions, others permit it up to a certain point in a woman's pregnancy, while others allow abortion throughout a woman's pregnancy. (wikipedia.org)
The official report of the US Senate Judiciary Committee, issued in 1983 after extensive hearings on the Human Life Amendment (proposed by Senators Orrin Hatch and Thomas Eagleton), stated: Thus, the [Judiciary] Committee observes that no significant legal barriers of any kind whatsoever exist today in the United States for a woman to obtain an abortion for any reason during any stage of her pregnancy. (wikipedia.org)
A number of states limit elective abortions to a maximum number of weeks into pregnancy, usually prior to when the fetus could survive if removed from the womb. (wikipedia.org)
In most European countries elective abortion care is allowed only during the first trimester, with abortions during later stages of pregnancy allowed only for specific reasons (e.g. physical or mental health reasons, risk of birth defects, if the woman was raped etc. (wikipedia.org)
Another proposal Corley filed would allow abortions for any reason up to 12 weeks into pregnancy. (yahoo.com)
The young girl, known as X, was allegedly raped by a doctor treating her for typhoid earlier this year and only discovered the pregnancy at the end of June. (reproductiverights.org)
Under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 abortion is only legal within 20 weeks of pregnancy-including in cases of grave injury to physical or mental health, rape, incest, fetal impairment and contraceptive failure-or any time during a pregnancy where it is "immediately necessary" to save the life of a pregnant woman. (reproductiverights.org)
Although doctors determined she was not physically or mentally prepared to continue with the pregnancy, the High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad denied X a legal abortion since she was 23 weeks pregnant at the time. (reproductiverights.org)
The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971 legalized abortion on broad grounds but with strict time limits. (reproductiverights.org)
Constitutional court upheld penal code provision which decriminalized abortions within the first three months of pregnancy. (utoronto.ca)
The Socialist Worker's Party has proposed permitting abortion on demand for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and the manifesto is meant to counter the move. (theinterim.com)
After providing more evidence for the humanity of life in the womb, the signers conclude that "abortion is not only an act of 'voluntary interruption of pregnancy' but a simple and cruel act of 'interruption of a human life'," and that "abortion is a drama with two victims: one dies and the other survives and suffers daily from the consequences of a dramatic and irreparable decision. (theinterim.com)
Abortion' means the termination of a human pregnancy with the intent other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus. (findlaw.com)
protest after 30-year-old Iza died of septic shock in week 22 of her pregnancy after being denied an abortion despite a dying fetus, in Krakow, Poland on Nov. 7, 2021. (nbcnews.com)
They prohibit abortion even when pregnancy endangers a woman's life or health or in cases of rape. (nbcnews.com)
Abortion is now permitted up to the 12th week of pregnancy, when the health or life of the mother is at risk, or when the fetus has a congenital defect. (nbcnews.com)
Argentinian lawmakers in late 2020 passed a bill legalizing abortion until the 14th week of pregnancy and after that in certain circumstances. (nbcnews.com)
In South Africa and Mozambique, abortion is permitted but limited to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. (nbcnews.com)
It appears that her mother performed the abortion around six months into the teenager's pregnancy. (thediplomat.com)
Abortion can be performed in the case of a pregnancy which arises from a rape, or if the pregnancy is not medically viable or threatens the health of the pregnant woman. (thediplomat.com)
The law says that abortion because of rape can only be done if the pregnancy is under six weeks. (thediplomat.com)
But, as Pawestri also explains, many women don't find out that they are pregnant until around 10-12 weeks into their pregnancy, by which time they are no longer eligible to have a legal abortion. (thediplomat.com)
Even in cases where a pregnancy is a result of rape, the abortion process be incredibly complicated and time consuming, especially if the victim does not understand her rights under the law. (thediplomat.com)
It showed that 63% of Chileans support the legalization of abortion when the mother's life is in danger, and 64% of Chileans are pro-choice when the pregnancy is the result of rape. (worldcrunch.com)
Some iterations would allow abortions up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, and all would prevent the state from punishing those who receive or perform abortions. (krvs.org)
Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, a group that supports abortion rights, has submitted nearly a dozen abortion-related petitions as well, with some allowing abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, and others barring the procedure after "fetal viability" except where the pregnancy endangers the patient. (krvs.org)
On Sunday Ted Cruz doubled down on his support for extreme policies that would force a woman to carry every pregnancy to term - regardless of rape, incest, or other tragic circumstances. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
In August 2015, Huckabee answered a similar question, confirming he would support policies that would force a ten-year-old girl who was raped by her stepfather to carry the pregnancy to term, despite possible risks to her health, the fact that she was a minor, or that she was a survivor of both rape and incest. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
While abortion is an extremely safe procedure, it is safest earlier in pregnancy. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
In July, she will be the first activist in Europe to face a criminal trial under Poland's incredibly strict abortion laws , which permit the termination of a pregnancy only in the case of rape and incest, or if the mother's life is in danger, though both can be hard to prove. (vice.com)
Providers are reluctant to provide medical abortion so early mainly because of the fear of a missed diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy. (fiapac.org)
The second argument is the possibility of a reduced efficacy of medical abortion in the early period of pregnancy which was suggested in one study. (fiapac.org)
Women need access to abortion care later in pregnancy for a variety of reasons, not just in cases of tragic fetal diagnoses. (prochoice.org)
States may not prohibit abortion before viability, or when an unborn child is "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb," REF which occurs at approximately 24 weeks of pregnancy. (heritage.org)
the United States, for example, is one of only seven nations allowing elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. (heritage.org)
Despite the majority support for abortion rights generally, 66% said abortion should be legal in, at most, the first three months of a pregnancy. (wunc.org)
Eighty-five percent (85%) said that a woman should be able to obtain a legal abortion if her life is seriously endangered due to pregnancy, and 77% said a woman should be able to obtain a legal abortion if she became pregnant because of rape. (lsu.edu)
Is abortion in case of pregnancy from rape permissible? (springer.com)
Those bills generally ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy - when many women don't yet know they're pregnant . (cnn.com)
Oregon is leading the way with a state law that makes abortion legal throughout pregnancy while others only permit abortion prior to viability or to protect the health and life of a woman. (cnn.com)
We should acknowledge the risks to physical and mental health that attend pregnancy, the financial and social stressors that accompany it, and the effects it can have on women's agency-and we should reject glib assertions that adoption, private charity, and access to crisis pregnancy centers are enough to address the challenges new abortion restrictions will create. (commonwealmagazine.org)
A wide-ranging Missouri bill banning abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy was just one step away from going to a supportive Republican governor after the state Senate passed the measure Thursday. (chicagotribune.com)
The legislation Alabama senators passed Tuesday would make performing an abortion at any stage of pregnancy a felony punishable by 10 to 99 years or life in prison for the provider. (chicagotribune.com)
More than 40% of all women will end a pregnancy by abortion at some time in their reproductive lives. (medscape.com)

From 1973 to 2022, Supreme Court rulings in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), respectively, created and maintained federal protections for a pregnant woman's right to get an abortion, ensuring that states could not ban abortion prior to the point at which a fetus may be deemed viable. (wikipedia.org)
However, Roe and Casey were overturned by Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), and states may now impose any regulation on abortion, provided it satisfies rational basis review and does not otherwise conflict with federal law. (wikipedia.org)
The Supreme Court had removed this discretion, and created a federal right to abortion, with the 1973 Roe v. Wade judgement, but this ruling was reversed 49 years later by the Supreme Court's ruling in the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson case. (wikipedia.org)
In many countries, abortion has been legalized by respective parliaments, while in the US abortion has previously been deemed a constitutional right by the Supreme Court, although this was reversed in 2022. (wikipedia.org)
MADRE and our partners in Colombia won a groundbreaking victory in 2022, fully legalizing abortions in the country. (madre.org)
Since the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization on June 24, 2022, states are free to construct their abortion laws in different ways to regulate access, timing, waiting periods, notice, and consent surrounding the procedure. (findlaw.com)
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CFRR) released a new report in January 2022 analyzing the legal influence of six landmark cases on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) around the world. (democratsabroad.org)
At a January 26, 2022 webinar organized by CFRR to launch its report, speakers noted (i) the importance of protecting institutions and empowering civil society, (ii) the cascading effect of such litigation (global to regional to local) and (iii) that the cases, by establishing normative standards, have become foundational for women's rights, so that SRHR are included in human rights' issues and states' obligations. (democratsabroad.org)
Since Cardenas made her remarks at the webinar, the United States Senate voted, on February 28, 2022, on the Woman's Health Protection Act (which would protect access to abortion in all 50 states, free from medically unnecessary restrictions). (democratsabroad.org)
Because abortion rights are likely to be a key issue in the upcoming 2022 U.S. mid-term elections, the fact that the bill finally went to a vote in the Senate can, however, be seen as a small victory since it did force the Senators to go on record for their constituents to judge. (democratsabroad.org)
In 2022, in every state where voters weighed in directly on the issue of abortion rights, they supported measures protecting those rights and rejected initiatives that jeopardized them. (krvs.org)
A case on the Supreme Court's docket during the 2021-2022 term provides an opportunity to reconsider the answer to that question and decide whether Roe 's answer was an error that must be corrected. (heritage.org)
Finally, Biden could make abortion a key part of the Democrats' platform in 2022. (electoral-vote.com)

But the Supreme Court's decision now permits doctors to perform abortions with the legal permission of the rape victim without having to seek court orders. (americasquarterly.org)
She says the bigger issue is that many doctors in this majority-Catholic country simply won't perform abortions. (theworld.org)
Unnecessary suffering and delay because you know, for example, doctors refused to perform abortions that are actually permitted by the law. (theworld.org)
The ban makes abortion illegal in virtually all cases - including cases of rape and incest - and doctors who perform abortions could face life in prison. (cnn.com)
The law also protects doctors or medical professionals who perform abortions from criminal prosecution. (cnn.com)

The restrictions will cause easily preventable maternal deaths, both due to unsafe abortion and to an increase in unplanned pregnancies in places where rates of maternal mortality are already high. (hrw.org)
Consequently, unsafe abortion is the third leading cause of maternal death, and an estimated 185 women undergo clandestine and often unsafe abortions every day. (ipas.org)
For years Ipas has worked with community advocates and organizations from across Bolivia's diverse population, which has more than 30 indigenous groups, to support efforts to inform and train communities on the importance of ending unsafe abortion and on sexual and reproductive health and rights. (ipas.org)
She was brought to the hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, because of excessive bleeding after obtaining an unsafe abortion in an illegal clinic. (trust.org)
Still, the division attributes 7 percent of maternal deaths to unsafe abortion. (trust.org)
Describe the clinical consequences of unsafe abortion, report this experience as well as sexual violence in situations of social and age vulnerability. (bvsalud.org)
It also revealed the need for further discussion on the topic, highlighting health promotion practices against unsafe abortion. (bvsalud.org)
Unsafe abortion appears as an alternative to unwanted pregnancies 1,6,7 , mainly in cases related to physical violence, sexual violence, usually caused by an intimate or known partner. (bvsalud.org)

Missouri is among many states turning to voters after the U.S. Supreme Court last year reversed Roe v. Wade and took away a nationwide right to abortion . (yahoo.com)
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion. (nbcnews.com)
The Supreme Court's decision last week to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling , guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion, will have wide-ranging impacts. (nbcnews.com)
In May, demonstrators gathered in Dayton, Ohio, to protest in favor of abortion rights after the leak of the draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade . (upr.org)
A July 1 news report that a pregnant 10-year-old girl from Ohio sought an abortion in neighboring Indiana has drawn intense national attention in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month striking down Roe v. Wade . (upr.org)
The Supreme Court deemed the right to a legal abortion was protected under the Constitution (within certain limits) in Roe v. Wade in 1973, but overruled that decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization . (findlaw.com)
Tensions and emotions are running high in the U.S. after the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion published by Politico suggested that Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established abortion rights nationwide, could be overturned this summer. (nbcnews.com)
The facility was the last abortion provider in Missouri before the fall of Roe v. Wade . (krvs.org)
But abortion rights proponents in Missouri have run into two roadblocks: Disagreement over whether voters should decide on a narrow approach like Corley's or expand abortion access beyond what was available before Roe v. Wade was overturned. (krvs.org)
Her trial comes at a time when abortion rights are facing a renewed threat: Any day now, the US Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade , the case that gave women in the US the right to abortion care nearly 50 years ago. (vice.com)
Without Roe v. Wade, 26 US states are certain or likely to ban abortion. (vice.com)
Justice Harry Blackmun devoted more than half of his majority opinion in Roe v. Wade to an account of "the history of abortion, for such insight as that history may afford us. (heritage.org)
As protests continue across the country in response to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, we speak with two leading legal scholars. (democracynow.org)
The Democratic governors of California, Washington and Oregon on Friday vowed to protect reproductive rights and help women who travel to the West Coast seeking abortions following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade . (kpbs.org)
Another ballot measure approved by voters in 1991 affirmed a woman's right to choose physician-performed abortion prior to fetal viability and further expanded and protected access to abortion in the state if Roe v. Wade was overturned. (kpbs.org)
Abortion is legal under Roe v. Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in all 50 states. (cnn.com)
New York passed a law to protect women's access to abortion right on the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade earlier this year. (cnn.com)

The legality of abortion in the United States and the various restrictions imposed on the procedure vary significantly depending on the laws of each state or other jurisdiction. (wikipedia.org)
In states where abortion is legal, several classes of restrictions on the procedure may exist, such as parental consent or notification laws, requirements that patients be shown an ultrasound before obtaining an abortion, mandatory waiting periods, and counselling requirements. (wikipedia.org)
There are no national laws or restrictions regulating abortion in Canada, although each individual province sets its own guidelines. (wikipedia.org)
The article told readers of a broader phenomenon: patients in Ohio and Kentucky, another state with restrictive abortion laws, were seeking abortions in Indiana, where new restrictions had not yet been enacted. (upr.org)
In much of Europe, Canada and Australia, laws around abortion are somewhat similar to the U.S. in that there are few restrictions other than gestational limits. (nbcnews.com)
If the law in the U.S. changes with a Supreme Court ruling this summer, some states will likely change their restrictions on abortion. (nbcnews.com)
This policy is also widely known as the "Global Gag Rule" due to the restrictions it places on how organizations use their own non-US government funds, including through limiting conversations that health providers can have with their patients and preventing them from pressing for legal change in their own countries. (hrw.org)
But this is the same frightening zeal we get from all of the GOP candidates - Trump last week voiced intentions to 'punish' women who had abortions, and Kasich has signed 18 abortion restrictions as Ohio's governor. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
If the 2013 restrictions go into full effect, the 5.9 million women of reproductive age in Texas will be left with only 10 health centers that provide safe, legal abortion in the entire state. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
Meanwhile, a number of other states are codifying legal access to abortion, in many cases with minimal restrictions. (commonwealmagazine.org)

On Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, St. Louis resident Jamie Corley, who is a Republican, proposed exceptions to the state's near-total abortion ban in cases of rape, incest and up until "fetal viability. (yahoo.com)
AP) - A Missouri Republican on Wednesday proposed constitutional amendments that would allow exceptions to the state's near-total abortion ban in cases of rape, incest and fatal abnormalities. (yahoo.com)
That state's voters in August rejected a measure that would have required at least 60% of the vote to amend the state constitution, an approach supported by abortion opponents that would have made it harder to adopt the November ballot question. (yahoo.com)
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said he would grant clemency to anyone charged under his state's 1849 law banning abortions. (nbcnews.com)
home on Sept. 27, says the state's strict abortion ban is "draconian. (krvs.org)
In 1969, the California Supreme Court declared the state's original abortion law to be unconstitutional but left the 1967 law in place. (kpbs.org)
They've resorted to fearmongering, falsely telling Iowans that medical schools are required to teach abortions, and therefore the heartbeat law will cause the state's only ob/gyn residency program to lose its accreditation, and therefore the state's ob/gyn shortage will get worse. (secularprolife.org)

Americans increasingly see themselves as supportive of the right to have an abortion and disagree with the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision last year overturning the guaranteed right to an abortion in this country, the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. (wunc.org)

The law changed in 2021 to make it illegal to terminate pregnancies with fetal defects, and it is now only possible to get an abortion to save the life of a woman, to preserve her health or in cases of rape or incest. (nbcnews.com)
In Africa, while unintended pregnancies have decreased by 15 percent over the last 30 years, abortions have increased by 13 percent, according to the Guttmacher Institute . (nbcnews.com)
Health professionals who are against abortion will often discourage women and girls from terminating pregnancies, even when permitted to do so by law. (thediplomat.com)
The case has sparked a passionate debate about abortion , which is currently illegal in Chile in all circumstances, including pregnancies caused by rape or when the mother's life is in danger . (worldcrunch.com)
Women and girls in about 60 low- and middle-income countries will have less access to contraception, resulting in more unintended pregnancies, and more-often unsafe-abortions. (hrw.org)
Early medical abortion will be defined in this presentation by termination of pregnancies with Mifepristone/Misoprostol when no visible gestational sac is visible on ultrasound. (fiapac.org)
Very early medical abortion will be defined by termination of pregnancies before the date of expected menstruation. (fiapac.org)
13. If pro-life people don't want abortions to happen, then why don't they promote using contraceptives in order to prevent unintended pregnancies? (bookreviewsandmore.ca)
This is especially the case since the Texas law makes no exception for pregnancies due to rape or incest. (electoral-vote.com)
There is no exception for pregnancies resulting for rape and incest. (chicagotribune.com)
The World Health Organization (WHO) shows an increase in rates of unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, sexually transmitted diseases and neonatal repercussions in women who are sexually abused 1 . (bvsalud.org)
Based on estimated lifetime risk, each American woman is expected to have 3.2 pregnancies, of which 2 will be a live birth, 0.7 will be an induced abortion, and 0.5 will be a miscarriage. (medscape.com)

Although the case related to Peru's laws, it reverberated across Latin America when the highest courts in Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia relied on the decision in K.L. v. Peru in their own landmark cases liberalizing restrictive abortion laws. (democratsabroad.org)
Activists here have been working within the confines of Poland's extremely restrictive abortion laws for the past three decades, but in 2020 things became particularly bad after a court removed one of the most significant exceptions allowing abortion to legally take place. (vice.com)

PRESS RELEASE) Four gynecologists will determine whether a pregnant 14-year-old rape survivor can obtain a legal abortion, according to a ruling today by a two-judge panel in the Supreme Court of India. (reproductiverights.org)
A physician shall not perform an abortion upon a pregnant woman when it has been determined that the unborn child has a detectable fetal heartbeat, unless, in the physician's reasonable medical judgment, a medical emergency or fetal heartbeat exception exists. (findlaw.com)
SANTIAGO - Chilean president Sebastián Piñera made a rather inopportune comment when he referred to the case of an 11-year old girl who became pregnant after being raped repeatedly by her stepfather over a period of two years. (worldcrunch.com)
18. My friend is pregnant and thinking of getting an abortion. (bookreviewsandmore.ca)
Maybe he could create a federal government program to airlift pregnant women out of Texas to take them to abortion clinics in other states. (electoral-vote.com)
The heartbeat bill has forced abortion advocates to adopt the talking point that the heartbeat begins "around six weeks, before some women even know they're pregnant. (secularprolife.org)
Restricting access to abortion is morally irresponsible if it's separated from fulfilling obligations to support women who are pregnant or might become pregnant. (commonwealmagazine.org)

We commend the Supreme Court for stepping in to protect the reproductive rights of this young rape survivor. (reproductiverights.org)
Here are some key facts on abortion laws in other countries, based on information from the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Guttmacher Institute, the World Health Organization and Reuters. (nbcnews.com)
As Veronica Koman, an Indonesian human rights lawyer says, "The limited opportunity for abortion under these two most dire circumstances contradicts the spirit of the Reproductive Health Law, which aims to protect women's health. (thediplomat.com)
First, someone who supports reproductive rights and access to abortion is not 'pro-abortion. (jillstanek.com)
For example, take the case of a foreign nongovernmental organization receiving 50 percent of its funds from non-US sources to provide sexual and reproductive health services, including counseling, referrals, or services related to abortion, and the other 50 percent from the US to provide vaccinations for babies, nutritional supplements, or treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB. (hrw.org)
Alejandra Cardenas of the CFRR briefly discussed the situation in the United States: she noted the importance of continuing to push legislation at the federal level, addressing not only abortion but more broadly reproductive choice and health rights. (democratsabroad.org)
What we're finding is in red states, when the abortion question is on an initiative as a standalone - and this happened last cycle in Kentucky , Montana , and others - voters sided with the reproductive rights position. (krvs.org)
Cruz has been nearly monomaniacal in his fervor against abortion - even attempting to shut the government down again in 2015 over federal funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of reproductive health care. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
Due to HB2, that number will only increase, since the study found that women were more likely to self-induce abortion if they encountered barriers to reproductive health services. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
Ipas Bolivia works both to improve women's access to reproductive health care and safe abortion, and to reduce sexual violence. (ipas.org)
In the next 50 years, we'll continue breaking down barriers to abortion access and work to eradicate the abortion stigma that prevents so many from making their own reproductive health decisions. (ipas.org)
We work with partners around the world to advance reproductive justice by expanding access to abortion and contraception. (ipas.org)
Our materials are designed to help reproductive health advocates and professionals expand access to high-quality abortion care. (ipas.org)
It started in September, when Newsom declared California a "reproductive freedom state" and established a group of abortion rights' activists to examine California's abortion laws and figure out how to strengthen them. (kpbs.org)
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson also said he will work to ensure his state "welcomes any individual who comes here to access the fundamental right to reproductive justice," adding that he is "already working to protect medical professionals who are prosecuted in other states for providing essential health care services that are legal and protected in Washington. (kpbs.org)

Many African countries have restrictive laws on abortion, allowing the procedure only if a mother's life is threatened, like in Nigeria, or in the cases of rape, incest or fetal defects, as in Botswana and Zimbabwe. (nbcnews.com)
As commenters below note, Palin's position is to only allow abortion in cases where there is threat to the mother's life, but not for incest or rape . (bigthink.com)
Chile is the only country in South America where abortion is completely banned, even in cases of rape and when a mother's life is in danger. (worldcrunch.com)
Chilean legislators should consider the well-being of women and listen to the opinion of the Chilean people - and legalize abortion in cases of rape and danger to the mother's life. (worldcrunch.com)
But in cases of rape and danger to the mother's life, there should be no debate. (worldcrunch.com)
Washington and Oregon border Idaho, which following Friday's ruling will ban abortions except in cases of reported rape or incest, or to protect the mother's life. (kpbs.org)
Findings show most residents support legal abortion when the mother's life is in serious danger and in cases of rape, but opinion divides on other cases. (lsu.edu)
The poll showed 68 percent of likely voters believe abortion should be legal in cases of rape, incest or to protect the mother's life. (texastribune.org)

A woman should be able to get an abortion if she wants one, no matter what the reason, up until the time the fetus is viable, that is, can live on its own (46% support). (bigthink.com)
The case provoked widespread outrage, and sparked protests by women's rights and child protection groups after the teenager was charged under the child protection law when a male fetus was found in a palm oil plantation close to her village. (thediplomat.com)
Underground abortion clinics are also common in Indonesia and horror stories abound of unlicensed midwives performing abortions and penetrating women with unsterilized foreign objects to remove the fetus. (thediplomat.com)
Likewise, 68% are against abortion when it is based solely on the mother's request, and a slight majority (51%) oppose abortion when the fetus has a genetic defect. (worldcrunch.com)
11. Would you be against abortion even if the woman's life was in danger or the fetus was going to die anyway? (bookreviewsandmore.ca)
States may not restrict or regulate abortion before viability with "the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus. (heritage.org)
The ancient Romans did not consider a fetus a person until after birth, and abortion was practiced widely. (medscape.com)

Democrats on Capitol Hill are promising legislative action to federally protect the right to an abortion, but they would need Republican support in the Senate. (kptv.com)
He could ask Congress to pass a federal law guaranteeing every woman's right to an abortion at least up to the point of viability. (electoral-vote.com)
Oregon has codified the right to an abortion. (kpbs.org)

Abortion rights advocates are intent on continuing that trend. (krvs.org)
Lucía's case is especially disturbing, but abortion-rights advocates say it's all too common for women in Argentina to be denied access to legal abortions. (theworld.org)
Democrats and abortion rights advocates criticized the legislation as a slap in the face to women. (chicagotribune.com)
Abortion rights advocates vowed swift legal action. (chicagotribune.com)
Abortion rights advocates gathered at the Texas Capitol in February to protest strict abortion regulations lawmakers approved in 2013 and the lingering effects of 2011 cuts to family planning services. (texastribune.org)

Abortion is legal in Iowa until a fetal heartbeat is detected, which typically occurs at a fetal gestational age of six weeks. (findlaw.com)
Abortion is legal before a fetal heartbeat is detected. (findlaw.com)

But the competing abortion-rights campaign has been tied up in court battles and fights with the Republican attorney general and secretary of state. (yahoo.com)

Exceptions for rape and incest are uncommon . (nbcnews.com)
On July 14, 2023, the governor of Iowa signed a fetal heartbeat abortion ban, subject to certain limited exceptions. (findlaw.com)
or abortion should be made illegal without any exceptions? (bigthink.com)
While abortion is mostly illegal, there are two exceptions. (thediplomat.com)
Corley, a Republican, says adding exceptions for rape and incest shouldn't be partisan. (krvs.org)
Corley's organization has submitted six proposed ballot initiatives that would establish abortion exceptions in the case of fatal fetal abnormalities, incest, or rape - if someone calls into a crisis hotline. (krvs.org)
The state legislators who do not support exceptions for rape and incest are very much out of step with constituents," Matthews said. (krvs.org)
Cruz would criminalize abortion with almost no exceptions, a stance vastly out of touch with the beliefs of the majority of the American people. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
In 1921, lawmakers said that exceptions can be made in the case of rape, incest or when a woman's life is in danger. (theworld.org)
Originally, this bill did not contain exceptions for cases of rape, incest, or when an abortion is necessary due to fetal diagnoses. (prochoice.org)
The law includes exceptions for medical necessity, rape, and incest. (secularprolife.org)
Missouri's Republican-led Senate voted early Thursday to ban abortions at eight weeks, with no rape or incest exceptions. (chicagotribune.com)

Ohio had passed a law in 2019 restricting all abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, effectively banning them after six weeks. (upr.org)
Activists hold hands outside the National Congress during a demonstration for the right to get abortions, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 19, 2019. (theworld.org)
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs a bill that virtually outlaws abortion in the state on Wednesday, May 15, 2019, in Montgomery, Ala. (chicagotribune.com)
Margeaux Hartline, dressed as a handmaid, during a rally against HB314, the near-total ban on abortion bill, outside of the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday May 14, 2019. (chicagotribune.com)
COVID-19, first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, was declared a global pandemic by the WHO following the rapid spread of cases worldwide. (bvsalud.org)

Another group of activists has been campaigning to enshrine abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution, with limited room for lawmakers to regulate the procedure after viability. (yahoo.com)

In 2010, a Chubut court had ruled in favor of the adolescent having an abortion, which meant that yesterday's decision formally backed the original ruling. (americasquarterly.org)
I'm not in favor of all abortions, but I do think that if a woman is raped, she should be able to have an abortion, since she never chose to have sex. (bookreviewsandmore.ca)

On April 28, 2021, the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the article that criminalized abortion in cases of rape, except for women with mental disabilities, paving the way for all people who are survivors of sexual violence to freely access abortion. (plannedparenthood.org)

Additionally, several states either have enacted or are in the process of enacting stricter abortion laws following Dobbs, and some have resumed enforcement of laws in effect prior to 1973. (wikipedia.org)
US law has banned using US foreign aid for abortion-related activities since 1973. (hrw.org)
[ 1 ] Accurate statistics have been kept since the enactment of the 1973 US Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortions. (medscape.com)
Since the 1973 decision, approximately 1.3-1.4 million abortions have been performed annually in the United States. (medscape.com)
Since the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, hundreds of laws, federal and state, have been proposed or passed, making this the most actively litigated and highly publicized area in the field of medicine. (medscape.com)

One of the petitions doesn't have a viability limit - or mention things like parental consent or funding for abortion services. (krvs.org)
States may prohibit abortion after viability "except when it is necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother. (heritage.org)

It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives," Alito wrote in the majority opinion, which also called the original Roe decision "egregiously wrong and deeply damaging. (nbcnews.com)
What's more, though they don't have a majority saying so, Democrats are more trusted than Republicans on handling the issue of abortion - 41% say Democrats and 25% say Republicans. (wunc.org)

Prior to the Court's decision in Dobbs, many states enacted trigger laws to ban abortion should Roe be overturned. (wikipedia.org)
While such laws are no longer considered to violate the United States Constitution, they continue to face some legal challenges in state courts. (wikipedia.org)
States have passed laws to restrict late-term abortions, require parental notification for minors, and mandate the disclosure of abortion risk information to patients prior to the procedure. (wikipedia.org)
Currently, legislatures in 22 states state they would move to ban or further restrict abortion laws throughout the U.S. The key deliberated article of the US Constitution is the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. (wikipedia.org)
This is an introduction to abortion laws in Iowa. (findlaw.com)
State abortion laws have continued to evolve over the years, including the imposition of waiting periods, counseling, required sonograms, and other requirements. (findlaw.com)
Thirteen states have already passed laws aimed at further restricting legal access to abortion as early as conception. (kptv.com)
Abortion laws worldwide: In what countries is abortion legal? (nbcnews.com)
The U.S. is not alone in having a heated debate about abortion, and laws on the procedure differ in countries around the world. (nbcnews.com)
Regardless of the laws surrounding abortion, rates are similar in countries where abortion is restricted and those where the procedure is largely legal, according to the Guttmacher Institute , which supports abortion rights. (nbcnews.com)
When people face barriers to obtaining safe abortions, they often resort to unsafe procedures, according to the WHO, and unsafe abortions are more common in countries with restrictive laws. (nbcnews.com)
Abortion is a crime in El Salvador, which has some of the world's most restrictive laws. (nbcnews.com)
That means some areas of the U.S. could wind up with more restrictive laws on abortion than other developed countries, including neighboring Canada and Mexico. (nbcnews.com)
Immediately rescind the Global Gag Rule , which prohibits international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive U.S. government funds from using their own private funds to provide abortions, lobbying their own government for a change in abortion laws, or even providing medically accurate counseling about abortion to their clients. (prochoice.org)
advocate for the liberalization of abortion laws. (hrw.org)
The restriction makes needed health funds the instrument to curtail the speech and activities of activists and health providers in other countries, preventing them from sharing health information with patients about abortion or discussing potential reforms to abortion laws without losing their US funds. (hrw.org)
We are seeing stories of women faced with just unbelievable medical complications, because they weren't able to get the care they needed because of draconian abortion laws. (krvs.org)
Justyna Wydrzyńska is the first activist charged under Poland's incredibly strict abortion laws. (vice.com)
As a consequence of Poland's recent restriction of abortion laws, at least two women have died. (vice.com)
REF This holding, and the Court's rules for implementing it, effectively invalidated abortion laws of all kinds passed by every state legislature in the previous 150 years. (heritage.org)
It's unclear if those laws will go into effect because they are likely to face numerous legal challenges. (cnn.com)
At least nine other states have laws protecting abortion. (cnn.com)
Some states and cities are also declaring themselves "sanctuaries" for women seeking abortions, drafting laws to protect those who come from states where abortion is now illegal. (commonwealmagazine.org)
Before the 19th century, most US states had no specific abortion laws. (medscape.com)

While many Democrats and women find Palin's support for criminalizing abortion to be outrageous, a recent survey by the Pew organization finds that roughly 40% of Americans generally agree with her views. (bigthink.com)

Meanwhile, the Guttmacher Institute, another abortion rights advocacy group, found that 26 states are considered certain or likely to ban abortion. (nbcnews.com)

Individual states have broad discretion to prohibit or regulate abortion and the legal position varies considerably from state to state. (wikipedia.org)
Dobbs returned to the states the power to regulate, even prohibit, abortion. (findlaw.com)
Friday's ruling will mean access to legal abortion may be more difficult for Americans living in states that want to regulate or ban abortion. (kptv.com)

Missouri's strict abortion ban could change. (krvs.org)
And that is very roughly what we found among all of these strict abortion ban states. (krvs.org)

Voted NO on funding for health providers who don't provide abortion info. (ontheissues.org)
Local governments in the states said they were also ready to help protect and provide abortion access. (kpbs.org)

They can even prohibit abortion entirely. (findlaw.com)

Misoprostol reduces the rate of complications after surgical abortion when administered as a medical priming agent prior to vacuum aspiration, both in nulliparous and parous women. (fiapac.org)
Shortages of providers of surgical abortion methods are a significant barrier to safe abortion care across diverse settings where abortion is legal. (fiapac.org)
Telemedicine abortion, outpatient surgical abortion and the provision of abortion after 20 weeks' gestation are important strategies that may reduce inequalities that impact the most vulnerable populations, such as black and indigenous women, children, adolescents and women experiencing domestic violence. (bvsalud.org)
Postoperative bleeding after a surgical abortion is different in timing, amount, and sequence to the bleeding post medical abortion. (medscape.com)

Fifty-two percent (52%) of respondents said a woman should not be able to obtain a legal abortion if the reason she is seeking one is that she or her family has a very low income and cannot afford any more children. (lsu.edu)
A similar share (54%) said a woman should not be able to obtain a legal abortion if the reason she is seeking one is that she does not want any more children. (lsu.edu)

The survey results also revealed that 80% of Chileans do not support abortion if lack of financial resources is the reason given for the termination. (worldcrunch.com)

Decades later, more than half of the estimated 6 million abortions that take place each year are unsafe according to the Abortion Assessment Project-India . (reproductiverights.org)
Using 1996 data, this translates into 3.89 million live births, 1.37 million abortions, and 0.98 million miscarriages. (medscape.com)
Worldwide, some 20-30 million legal abortions are performed annually, with another 10-20 million abortions performed illegally (see The Alan Guttmacher Institute ). (medscape.com)

This Administration must address the need for health care reform that guarantees equal access to comprehensive, high quality health care, including access to abortion care for women. (prochoice.org)
Improve access to abortion care for women in the military. (prochoice.org)

Abortion is only legal in Bolivia in cases of rape, incest and immediate risk to a woman's health or life. (ipas.org)
In Brazil, abortion is only allowed in cases of rape, serious risk to a woman's life or fetal anecephaly. (bvsalud.org)

The Dobbs case allows the Supreme Court to correct its grave error and acknowledge that Roe was wrongly decided. (heritage.org)
This Legal Memorandum examines Dobbs in the context of abortion in America, including both the history of abortion and public opinion, and abortion in the Supreme Court. (heritage.org)
Abortion rights have become a political flashpoint since the court's Dobbs ruling. (wunc.org)
But the data also show there has been little change in abortion attitudes since the Dobbs decision. (wunc.org)
Nearly two months after Justice Samuel Alito's opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was first leaked to the public, the Supreme Court has officially issued its decision repealing the constitutional right to abortion. (commonwealmagazine.org)

Safe access zones outside abortion providers was upheld as constitutional. (utoronto.ca)
After being told for 50 years that abortion is a constitutional "right," most Americans still oppose most of the abortions that Roe made legal. (heritage.org)
Even the most creative legal scholars cannot identify Roe's constitutional justification, and most have stopped trying. (heritage.org)
Yesterday, Joe Biden attacked the new Texas law banning abortions after 6 weeks as extreme and said it violates a woman's constitutional right to have an abortion. (electoral-vote.com)

But, while the abortion law is seen by many as being ineffectual or almost impossible to access for many women in Indonesia, it at least recognizes the legality of abortion in some cases, and was only passed in 2009 after much legal wrangling. (thediplomat.com)

Doctors who performed illegal abortions could have faced between one and four years in prison. (americasquarterly.org)
The girl could have had an illegal abortion - thousands of women do each year, the majority not performed by experts or in sanitary conditions - but she didn't. (worldcrunch.com)
Liñan says illegal abortions are also common, even though they carry a prison term of four years. (theworld.org)
9. If abortion were made illegal, then women would be forced to get abortions from untrained "back-alley" abortionists. (bookreviewsandmore.ca)
10. If abortion were made illegal, then what should the punishment be for a woman who chose to have one? (bookreviewsandmore.ca)
In this last week, it will be interesting to see if her stance on making abortion illegal in cases of rape and incest comes to the forefront. (thedailybeast.com)
A decade after the Nepali government legalized abortion, educated women in Nepal still report risking their lives for illegal and unsafe abortions. (trust.org)
Traditional views of contraceptives in Nepali society and traditional abortion practices in rural areas also contribute to illegal and unsafe abortions. (trust.org)
Fifty-two percent (52%) of respondents said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 44% said it should be illegal in all or most cases. (lsu.edu)
Fifty-seven percent (57%) oppose making it illegal for women in Louisiana to cross state lines to obtain an abortion, and 59% oppose making it illegal to provide assistance for a woman to get an abortion, such as providing money or transportation. (lsu.edu)
Illegal abortions are unsafe and account for 13% of all maternal mortality and serious complications. (medscape.com)

We look forward to working with the Obama Administration to protect women's access to safe, legal abortion care. (prochoice.org)
Professionals who could facilitate women's access to safe abortion when the legal requirements are met often do not have training on the law and end up creating more barriers for women. (ipas.org)

MADRID - Approximately 1000 scientists, physicians, academics, and intellectuals have signed the Madrid Manifesto, a statement rejecting further legalization of abortion in Spain. (theinterim.com)

More restrictive interpretations of the law said that only women with disabilities who'd been raped could receive an abortion. (theworld.org)
Some make performing or helping someone receive an abortion a crime, even if it happens in another state where abortion is legal. (commonwealmagazine.org)

Some ban abortion even in cases of incest or rape. (kptv.com)

About half of states have either already banned abortion or indicated that they soon will, meaning millions of women will no longer have easy access to abortion services. (nbcnews.com)
More than 180 women who experienced obstetric emergencies were prosecuted for abortion or aggravated homicide in the last 20 years. (nbcnews.com)
Women accused of having had abortions have been convicted of homicide , sometimes with prison terms of up to 40 years, according to Human Rights Watch. (nbcnews.com)
Women in Malta are denied access to abortion entirely, even if their lives are at risk. (nbcnews.com)
It is the only European Union member state that prohibits the procedure, and women who have an abortion face up to three years in jail. (nbcnews.com)
The abortion law in Indonesia makes it almost impossible to protect women. (thediplomat.com)
The requirement for women to get an abortion does not make sense. (thediplomat.com)
The problem is the brief window of opportunity that women across Indonesia have to decide if they want an abortion. (thediplomat.com)
Still, many women and girls in Indonesia don't know how to seek professional medical help - particularly in cases of abuse. (thediplomat.com)
Nearly 70,000 women in developing countries die each year from unsafe abortions. (prochoice.org)
Address barriers low-income women face when obtaining abortion care. (prochoice.org)
Ensure comprehensive health care coverage for women, which includes abortion care. (prochoice.org)
As we enter this new era of American politics, we look forward to working with the Obama Administration, Congress, and the Department of Justice to ensure that abortion is safe, legal, and accessible to promote health and justice for women. (prochoice.org)
Although SRHR are essential to gender equality, millions of women and girls still lack legal protections for these fundamental rights. (democratsabroad.org)
She would go on to form the Missouri Women and Family Research Fund, aimed at enshrining some abortion protections in the state constitution. (krvs.org)
Ted Cruz's dangerous, extremist position to ban abortion across the board is wildly out of touch with women and Americans as a whole. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
Women have been forced to travel hundreds of miles, cross state lines, and wait weeks to get an abortion, if they can get one at all. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
A protocol for follow up of early medical abortion will be presented based on correct information given to the women (especially symptoms that must induce a visit to the emergency service) and serum HCG testing seven days after the medical abortion. (fiapac.org)
Early medical abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol requires less provider involvement, is highly effective and can largely be managed by women themselves. (fiapac.org)
There is a judicial hotline that women can call when a doctor refuses to comply, but it's unclear whether it's effective and if judges do intervene when women are denied a legal abortion. (theworld.org)
Still, the number of women seeking legal abortions is high. (theworld.org)
Ipas programs also include training safe abortion providers, as well as partnering with Bolivia's Ministry of Justice to train law enforcement, judicial and policy professionals on the legal provisions for abortion-and to ensure that women themselves know the legal grounds for accessing abortion care. (ipas.org)
In my opinion this book touches too briefly on the topic of the emotional and spiritual impact that abortions can have on the health of women who have had abortions or men who encouraged it. (bookreviewsandmore.ca)
Since abortion gained its legal status, nearly 50,000 women have undergone safe abortion in Nepal, according to the Family Health Division. (trust.org)
Fifty-one percent (51%) oppose employers or insurance companies paying for women in Louisiana to travel out of state for an abortion. (lsu.edu)
Women with enough money will still be able to get many abortions or bear the costs of raising an unexpected child. (commonwealmagazine.org)
Women seeking or undergoing abortions wouldn't be punished. (chicagotribune.com)
Abortion, even when provided by law in cases of sexual violence, continues to be practiced in an insecure way, since women who suffer violence are not reported or guarded by social, institutional or age vulnerability, as in adolescence. (bvsalud.org)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, almost half of the already few Brazilian abortion clinics shut down and women had to travel even longer distances, reaching abortion services at later gestational ages. (bvsalud.org)
However, a large the Pakistani context despite an increasingly alarming proportion of IPV cases are not documented as women rate. (who.int)

That case challenged a law in Mississippi that banned most abortions after 15 weeks. (nbcnews.com)
This case underscores the urgent need to adopt current proposals to amend the abortion law and make it more humane by permitting abortions even beyond 20 weeks. (reproductiverights.org)
This week, the Georgia state Senate passed a revised version of a bill that would ban abortion care after 20 weeks. (prochoice.org)
allowing abortions until only six weeks. (wunc.org)
In case of rape or incest, the legal abortion period is 18 weeks. (trust.org)
Patients who are seen at 1-3 weeks after a medical abortion have completion of the process documented by ultrasonography. (medscape.com)

A 2010 Human Rights Watch report claims that around 500,000 abortions are performed in Argentina each year - it doesn't include the number of clandestine abortions. (theworld.org)
The Committee is also concerned that the criminalization of abortion, except in cases of rape, threat to the life of the mother, or anencephalic foetus, results in many girls resorting to 2 clandestine and unsafe abortions that put their lives and health at risk. (bvsalud.org)

The landmark decision came out of a case where a 15-year-old girl was raped by her stepfather, a senior officer of the police force in the Argentine province of Chubut. (americasquarterly.org)

The reasons that can be invoked by a woman seeking an abortion after the first trimester vary by country, for instance, some countries, such as Denmark, provide a wide range of reasons, including social and economic ones. (wikipedia.org)

Current law forbids military hospitals from providing abortion care except in cases of rape, incest, or life endangerment. (prochoice.org)

Corte Suprema Justicia de la Nación [National Supreme Court] March 5, 2002, Portal de Belén v. Ministerio de Salud y Acción Social de la Nación s/amparo en anticoncepción de emergencia, No. P.709.XXXVI, Spanish decision online . (utoronto.ca)
Suprema Corte de Justicia [Supreme Court of the Province of Buenos Aires] 2002, C.R.O v. Province of Buenos Aires , Case C 85566, Spanish decision . (utoronto.ca)
The Nepali government legalized abortion in 2002. (trust.org)

In the case of the heartbeat bill, we're educating the public about prenatal development. (secularprolife.org)

Abortion rights proponents - including President Biden - pointed to the incident as evidence of the cruel consequences of the court's decision. (upr.org)

The fund also seeks to expand abortion access in Oregon's rural communities. (kpbs.org)

In this survey, 61% said they mostly support abortion rights, 37% count themselves as opposed. (wunc.org)
An equal percentage to those who say they mostly support abortion rights also say either they or someone they know has had an abortion. (wunc.org)
A majority of likely Texas voters support abortion rights in extreme circumstances, according to a Texas Lyceum Poll released Tuesday. (texastribune.org)

We must also remain vigilant in protecting abortion providers. (prochoice.org)

Last Friday, Biden picked up on the report in his own impassioned remarks about abortion access. (upr.org)

Medical professionals do not need judicial authorization before performing legal abortion when there is a risk to the woman's health or life. (utoronto.ca)

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