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Abortion was first legalised in South Africa under the Abortion and Sterilization Act, 1975 (Act No.2 of 1975). [8] This law stated that women could access pregnancy terminations if; continuing the pregnancy could be life-threatening or cause serious health issues, continuing the pregnancy could be of severe risk to the woman's mental health, the child is likely to be born with significant ...
U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston could sign the order as early as Tuesday, seen as a rare victory for anti-abortion advocates in Illinois. Proposed agreement would halt state penalties against ...
The gag-rule policy “leads to more unintended, unwanted, unsupportable pregnancies and therefore an increase in abortion,” said Catriona Macleod, a professor of psychology at South Africa’s ...
The statute was approved by the Pittsburgh City Council in December 2005. [33] In 2009, a three judge appeals court panel found in Brown v. Pittsburgh that while either a fixed buffer or a floating buffer alone is constitutional, this combination of buffers is "insufficiently narrowly tailored," and thus unconstitutional. [34]
The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1996 (Act No. 92 of 1996) is the law governing abortion in South Africa. It allows abortion on demand up to the twelfth week of pregnancy, under broadly specified circumstances from the thirteenth to the twentieth week, and only for serious medical reasons after the twentieth week. The Act has been ...
The council held an extended discussion on amendments to the city charter and the wording for the abortion ordinance to be sent to voters this fall. City Council discusses ballot issues: charter ...
Within 48 hours of opening, the city council and local legislators created a zoning ordinance to prevent carafem from providing abortion services in Mt. Juliet. [11] After many months in court, the city settled an ACLU lawsuit and carafem was able to provide surgical abortions in Tennessee. [12]
(The Center Square) – Two Chicago aldermen have proposed eliminating sanctuary-city protections for foreign nationals convicted of or arrested for certain crimes. Aldermen Raymond Lopez and ...