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In August 2023, a 13-year-old girl in Mississippi made national news when she gave birth after being raped the previous fall; she was denied an abortion under Mississippi's near-total abortion ban. Her mother stated that no one informed her of the state's rape exception. [9]
The Mississippi House of Representatives has seen eight bills filed on abortion this year. Are any likely to get out of committee? Abortion is illegal in Mississippi, but 8 related bills have been ...
Abortion was illegal in North Dakota from 2022 to 2024, until Judge Bruce Romanick ruled that the state's abortion ban violated the Constitution of North Dakota's equality provisions. [ 160 ] [ 161 ] The law technically made exceptions to save the life of the pregnant woman, or, until 6 weeks into a pregnancy, in cases of rape or incest.
The Pink House was the state's only remaining abortion clinic. Two years later, Mississippi is one of 14 states with a full abortion ban, which still leaves room for abortions in cases when ...
Wade in a trigger ban by the Mississippi Attorney General. This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: MS says no to time off work for abortion after federal judge rules Show ...
Wade, the South has become covered with abortion bans. Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Texas -- along with Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Dakota -- all now have near-total bans on ...
The case concerned the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi state law that banned most abortion operations after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. Jackson Women's Health Organization—Mississippi's only abortion clinic at the time—had sued Thomas E. Dobbs, state health officer with the Mississippi State Department of Health, in March 2018.
The Mississippi law bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, allowing them only in medical emergencies or cases of severe fetal abnormality.