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A little more than one week after a neighboring state saw abortion restrictions go into effect, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a slate of bills expanding reproductive rights in Illinois.
The decision was upheld in late August, so abortion measures will not be on the state’s ballot in November. In Florida, nearly 1 million signatures were collected to get a measure that would ...
Since then 14 states have completely banned abortion with limited exceptions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights. New state bans forced ...
Until June 12, 2019, [19] under the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975, state law banned abortions after 12 weeks. [20] The state prohibited abortions after the fetus was viable, generally some point between week 24 and 28, based on the standard defined by the US Supreme Court in 1973 with the Roe v. Wade ruling, not because of legislative action ...
Anti-abortion groups have pressured Republican candidates to support a national ban. Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump quietly supports a 16-week ban with some exceptions, The New ...
On June 24, 2022, in a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v.Wade and Planned Parenthood v.Casey. [9] The decision was divisive among the American public, [10] with 55 to 60% "split between those who think that it (abortion) should be mostly legal with some exceptions and mostly illegal but with exceptions" [11] and was generally condemned by international observers and ...
2021 San Marino abortion referendum; 2022 California Proposition 1; 2022 Kansas abortion referendum; 2022 Kentucky Amendment 2; 2022 Michigan Proposal 3; 2022 Montana Legislative Referendum 131; 2022 Vermont Proposal 5; 2024 Arizona Proposition 139; 2024 Colorado Amendment 79; 2024 Florida Amendment 4; 2024 Maryland Question 1; 2024 Missouri ...
If it passes, the amendment would effectively undo the state’s near-total ban on abortion, which snapped back into effect after Roe v. Wade was struck down in 2022.