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Abortion was first legalised in South Africa under the Abortion and Sterilization Act, 1975 (Act No.2 of 1975). [8] This law stated that women could access pregnancy terminations if; continuing the pregnancy could be life-threatening or cause serious health issues, continuing the pregnancy could be of severe risk to the woman's mental health, the child is likely to be born with significant ...
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, LaDonna Prince decided to move her abortion clinic from Indiana, where abortion became banned, to a town just over the border in Illinois, where abortion is legal.
The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1996 (Act No. 92 of 1996) is the law governing abortion in South Africa. It allows abortion on demand up to the twelfth week of pregnancy, under broadly specified circumstances from the thirteenth to the twentieth week, and only for serious medical reasons after the twentieth week. The Act has been ...
Of the 102 counties of the state of Illinois, 84 are organized into civil townships, usually referred to as simply "townships" in state law. All told, Illinois has 1,428 such townships, and they are the slight majority of the state's general units of local government. [1] The legal name of each township is the form "___ Township" or "Town of ...
The Guttmacher Institute has created an interactive map showing how far people may have to travel for an abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court significantly weakens or overturns landmark abortion ...
As of April 14, 2022, nine governors have signed abortion restrictions into law this year, a dozen states have passed such legislation in at least one chamber, and such legislation has been active ...
South Africa decriminalised abortion in 1996 through a political coalition. The African National Congress noted that unsafe abortion had a disproportionate impact on Black South Africans . [ 1 ] Between 1996 and 2003, Burkina Faso , Mali , Guinea , Niger , Chad , and Benin revised their strict abortion bans from the Napoleonic Code to allow ...
The gag-rule policy “leads to more unintended, unwanted, unsupportable pregnancies and therefore an increase in abortion,” said Catriona Macleod, a professor of psychology at South Africa’s ...