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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 ...
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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
2021 – In January 2021, New Jersey governor Phil Murphy signed the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act into law, preserving the legal right to obtain an abortion, fulfilling a reelection campaign promise. [262] 2021 – A law went into effect in Indiana mandating an ultrasound 18 hours or more before an abortion is performed. [263]
Pregnant people in New York would have 40 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments under a new proposal by Gov. Kathy Hochul after the state's legislative session kicked off ...
The Human Life Protection Act [7] bans abortions at any stage of a pregnancy. [8] The law provides for exceptions in cases where a fetus has a lethal anomaly (a medical condition that would cause the fetus to be stillborn or to die shortly following birth), or in cases where a pregnancy would "present serious health risk" to the woman. [9]
"When I got pregnant, doctors told me my baby would never survive." At the end of last year, Cox's fetus was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, or Edwards Syndrome, a genetic condition with extremely low ...