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The law banned abortions after a fetal heartbeat could be detected, and allowed private citizens in Texas to sue anyone who helps someone obtain such an abortion. The law took effect in September of that year. [4] [5] After the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in its June 2022 decision in ...
The State Legislature amended California's abortion law in 1967 with the Therapeutic Abortion Act, signed by Governor Ronald Reagan in June, which extended the right to an abortion in cases of rape and incest up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. [5] In 1969, the California Supreme Court issued a ruling in People v.
Illinois formerly had a trigger law (enacted in 1975) but repealed it in 2017. [10] [11] [12] Eight states, among them Alabama, Arizona, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as the already mentioned Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas, still have their pre-Roe v. Wade abortion bans on the law books.
In Texas, that means a trigger law, House Bill 1280, will soon criminalize abortion at any time after fertilization. The ban will take effect 30 days after the final judgment in Dobbs v.
Once Texas House Bill 1280, also known as the “trigger law”, is in effect almost all abortion will be banned in the state. Here is what the law prohibits and what it doesn’t.
Legislators in 13 states have prepared for the possibility that Roe v. Wade could be overturned with so-called trigger laws, which would restrict abortions almost immediately with few exceptions.
Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, abortion rights protests were held in Austin, [192] Dallas, Denton, [193] Houston, [194] and San Antonio. [195] In June 2024, Texas radio host Ryan Hamilton spoke out against Texas' abortion ban after his wife nearly bled to death after a Texas hospital refused to treat her miscarriage. [196]
While almost two dozen states are poised to ban or severely restrict abortion access if Roe v. Wade is overturned, 13 states have so-called trigger laws, or bans on abortion that only go into ...