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The bill, Senate Bill 276, would also criminalize “coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud,” which would prohibit someone from knowingly using the medications to cause or attempt to cause ...
Lawmakers in the US state of Louisiana have advanced a bill that would restrict two drugs commonly used to perform an abortion. The bill, which was approved on Tuesday by the state’s lower ...
The Louisiana state House passed an amended bill on Tuesday that would classify the abortion-inducing drugs misoprostol and mifeprostone as Schedule IV controlled dangerous substances in the state ...
Committee consideration by House Energy and Commerce. The Women's Health Protection Act ( H.R. 12) is a piece of legislation introduced in the United States House of Representatives aimed at expanding abortion rights established in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992). It was first introduced in 2013 by Congresswoman Judy ...
The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...
Restrictions at 12–20 weeks pregnant. The following state only allows abortion until 12 weeks, 0 days of pregnancy: Nebraska, unless your life or physical health is at risk or the pregnancy is a ...
Following Dobbs, Congress has introduced bills related to abortion rights. House Democrats passed two bills on July 15 to enhance abortion rights. The first, the Women's Health Protection Act of 2022, would prevent states from restricting abortions before fetal viability and prevent states from blocking access to abortion services. The second ...
Vineeta Gupta, MD, a maternal and child health physician and international human rights lawyer, says the vague and unclear language in anti-abortion bills regarding ectopic pregnancies creates ...