Why Exceptions to Abortion Bans May Be Hard for Women to Access

A Review of Exceptions in State Abortion Bans - KFF

Abortion is currently banned in 14 states and many other states have attempted to ban or severely restrict access to abortion. All of these bans ...

Four out of five Americans agree that there should be exceptions to the law if the mother's life or health is in danger, and for victims of rape and incest.

State Abortion Bans Will Harm Women and Families' Economic ...

One 1997 study found that the so-called marginal child who was not born due to abortion access—and who would have been born absent abortion ...

Most Abortion Bans Include Exceptions. In Practice, Few Are Granted.

Most make exceptions in certain circumstances, commonly to protect the health or life of the patient, or in the case of rape or incest.

A Closer Look at Rape and Incest Exceptions in States with Abortion ...

In states with total abortion bans, few abortion providers remain. Providers in states with early gestational limits (and the few remaining ...

Focusing on Exceptions Misses the True Harm of Abortion Bans

Anti-abortion policymakers see exceptions as loopholes and designed them to be difficult if not outright impossible to use even for the few who ...

Experts explain how abortion ban exceptions for rape and incest are ...

“They suggest that people who need care for really particular and difficult reasons can access it, and really none of that is true.” Smith's ...

In states with abortion bans, rape exceptions 'fail to provide ... - PBS

In comparison, researchers found that fewer than a dozen abortions each month were offered in states where lawmakers have offered rape ...

Focusing on 'Exceptions' Misses the True Harm of Abortion Bans

Anti-abortion policymakers see exceptions as loopholes and designed them to be difficult, if not outright impossible, to use even for the few ...

Exceptions to Abortion Bans Further Restrict Access to Care

Every ban on abortion is a direct attack on women's autonomy and dignity, stripping them of their ability to make a deeply personal decision ...

Inequity in US Abortion Rights and Access: The End of Roe Is ...

Abortion Restrictions' Inequitable Effects ... Many laws restricting abortion care target certain groups of abortion patients based on their ...

Most state abortion bans have limited exceptions - The Conversation

Because these different state laws use nonmedical language and threaten steep penalties – such as life imprisonment – for performing an abortion ...

Most state abortion bans have limited exceptions - UVA Law

Some states, such as Georgia, Indiana and West Virginia, also include exceptions for health concerns, rape, incest or lethal fetal anomalies. Most of these ...

Trauma of abortion restrictions and forced pregnancy

Restricting a woman's access to abortion does not prevent abortion but simply leads to more unsafe abortions. Abortions can be procedural or medical, with the ...

Medical Exceptions to State Abortion Bans

But in states that have criminalized abortion, patients facing severe and dangerous pregnancy complications are being denied medically necessary abortion care— ...

Can Stealthing Qualify? Navigating Rape Exceptions in States ...

Some states' abortion bans and restrictions have exceptions for victims pregnant by rape or incest.

Post-Roe, exceptions to state abortion bans won't be easy to acquire

They are often minors, some of whose abusers are family members, and most states require parental involvement in a minor's decision to get an ...

Human Rights Crisis: Abortion in the United States After Dobbs

Abortion bans also harm women's health in ways unrelated to pregnancy complications. Abortion restrictions can increase the risk of violence for ...

State Abortion Bans Harm More Than Three Million Disabled Women

Nearly 6 in 10 disabled women veterans in the U.S. live in states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion. This abortion access crisis has far-reaching ...

Abortion Exceptions Don't Really Exist - Rolling Stone

... abortion ban exceptions. Some even say that women can't get pregnant from a rape at all. Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins — who ...