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Signed into law by President Joe Biden on December 29, 2022 The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act is a United States law meant to eliminate discrimination and ensure workplace accommodations for workers with known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition. [ 1 ]
A federal judge in Arkansas has tossed out a legal challenge by 17 Republican-led states to a U.S. agency rule giving workers who had abortions the same legal protections as those who are pregnant ...
In the report, researchers called pregnancy criminalization “nothing new.” Pregnancy Justice and other groups have recorded more than 1,800 cases of pregnancy-related charges from 1973 to 2022 ...
The Texas Legislature banned abortion care as early as five weeks into pregnancy in September 2021, nearly a year before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — the case that protected a ...
Women's Health Protection Act of 2021 H.R. 3755: June 8, 2021 Judy Chu (D-CA) 215 Cloture not invoked (46-48). S. 1975: June 8, 2021 Richard Blumenthal(D-CT) 47 Referred to Committees of Jurisdiction. Women's Health Protection Act of 2022 H.R. 8296: June 7, 2022 Judy Chu (D-CA) 3 Passed the House (219-210). S. 4132: May 3, 2022 Richard ...
Florida's first abortion law was implemented in 1868, lasting until 1972; it stated: [8] [9] Abortion: Every person who shall administer to any woman pregnant with a quick child any medicine, drug or substance whatever, or shall use or employ any instrument or other means, with intent thereby to destroy such child, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such mother ...
The number of women dying while pregnant is returning to pre-pandemic levels following a worrisome 2021 spike, a new report from the Centers for ... per 100,000 live births in 2022. In 2021, it ...
An Ohio abortion law came under attention in July 2022. The law disallows abortions after embryonic cardiac activity is detectable (approximately six weeks into term), and makes no exceptions for rape or incest. The law passed in 2019 and had been blocked from enforcement by a court injunction, but with Dobbs, the injunction was lifted.