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More than a year after the lawsuits were filed, two legal challenges targeting North Carolina’s abortion restrictions remain in court. One case focuses on two provisions of the 12-week abortion ...
Jessica Yang, DO, is a family medicine resident at Main Line Health Bryn Mawr Hospital and a member of the ABC News Medical Unit. States with abortion bans see more births but also more infant ...
New abortion restrictions will go into effect in North Carolina, as the state legislature overrides Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a 12-week ban. NC enacts new abortion restrictions as Republicans ...
The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
The case's lead plaintiff is Amanda Zurawski, a Texas woman who was denied an abortion when she was 18 weeks pregnant because her fetus had a detectable heartbeat. She subsequently went into septic shock twice, and was left with a permanently closed fallopian tube due to scar tissue. Four other women initially joined the suit when it was first ...
Georgia currently bans abortion after approximately six weeks of pregnancy, a time when many people don’t know they’re pregnant. ProPublica reported that Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, was forced ...
In November 2022, Kentucky voters rejected an amendment that would have denied any right to abortion in the state constitution. [93] On February 16, 2023, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that abortion providers lacked standing to challenge the state's abortion ban, but did not elaborate on whether or not the Kentucky Constitution secured ...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine believes that a 10-year-old rape victim could have gotten an abortion in Ohio rather than fleeing to Indiana. But if doctors disagree, Ohio legislators must clarify that law ...