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After Roe Fell: Abortion Laws by State - Center for Reproductive Rights

Most states repealed abortion bans in effect as of 1973 once Roe made them unenforceable. However, some states and territories never repealed their pre-Roe ...

6 key facts about abortion laws and the 2024 election - NPR

So far, voters will be weighing in on the right to an abortion in four states: Colorado, Florida, Maryland and South Dakota. Six more states are ...

Tracking Abortion Bans Across the Country - The New York Times

Twenty-one states ban abortion or restrict the procedure earlier in pregnancy than the standard set by Roe v.

Abortion-rights ballot measures pass in 7 states, fail in 3 others

The one voters approved will protect abortion rights in the first trimester while barring the procedure in the second and third trimesters, ...

Here's What States Are Doing to Abortion Rights in 2023 - ProPublica

For 50 years, Roe v. Wade shut down the biggest ambitions of the anti-abortion movement. Last summer, the Supreme Court overturned that decision ...

Roe v. Wade Overturned: How the Supreme Court Let Politicians ...

Wade is the U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in the United States in 1973. Safe, legal abortion remained a recognized federal constitutional ...

Abortion providers — and patients — are on the move, as state laws ...

States that do not have an abortion ban in place have seen an 11% increase in clinician-provided abortions since 2020, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

A Year After the Supreme Court Overturned Roe v. Wade, Trends in ...

According to the Guttmacher Institute, which tracks state-level abortion legislation, in 2022 alone, state legislators introduced 563 provisions ...

United States abortion-rights movement - Wikipedia

a sociopolitical movement in the United States supporting the view that a woman should have the legal right to an elective abortion.

Abortion Rights - Amnesty International

The “Green Wave” is the adopted name of the feminist and human rights movement that has been fighting for years to legalize abortion throughout Latin America.

2 years after Dobbs, Democratic-led states move to combat abortion ...

Nearly one in five patients traveled out-of-state for abortion care in the first half of 2023, compared to about one in 10 in 2020, per data ...

Human Rights Crisis: Abortion in the United States After Dobbs

Following the United States (US) Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in June 2022, people in the US who ...

Roe's Repeal Inspires Abortion Rollbacks in Other Countries

With Dobbs, the United States joined El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland as the only nations to move away from abortion rights in recent decades.

Forward Fight for Reproductive Freedom

Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion—and with it, our freedom to make our own decisions about our bodies, ...

What to know as the battle over abortion rights shifts to state ballots ...

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, attempts to use the ballot box to enshrine the right to access abortion ...

Abortion-rights movement - Wikipedia

They seek to represent and support women who wish to terminate their pregnancy without fear of legal or social backlash. These movements are in direct ...

Where is abortion illegal in the US? - BBC

And in the third, it allowed states to ban abortions as long as exceptions were made for the health and life of the mother. This system remained ...

Abortion in U.S. History - Planned Parenthood Action Fund

The 1960s gave rise to abortion law reform. In the late 1960s, 11 states liberalized their abortion laws. And in 1973, the Supreme Court established the legal ...

Abortion Law: Global Comparisons - Council on Foreign Relations

Wade, which guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion. Since Dobbs, twenty-one states have moved to ban or restrict abortion access. What does abortion ...

An unstoppable movement: A global call to recognize and protect ...

Amnesty International calls on states to recognize the legitimate and essential role of all defenders working on the right to abortion.