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Two provisions of HB2 were challenged in court, 6 and major medical and public health associations—including the American Medical Association, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Public Health Association—submitted amicus briefs in opposition to the law. 11,12 The Supreme Court held that laws ...
Apr 18, 2022 · This is especially so as international guidance provided by the WHO indicates best practice in provision and management of abortion and shows clearly that undue provider restrictions are not justified by reference to the nature and complexity of abortion [2, 3, 11]. Given this, and as international human rights law enjoins evidence-based ...
Jan 31, 2019 · Background In Victoria, Australia, the law regulating abortion was reformed in 2008, and a clause (‘Section 8’) was introduced requiring doctors with a conscientious objection to abortion to refer women to another provider. This study reports the views of abortion experts on the operation of Section 8 of the Abortion Law Reform Act in Victoria. Methods Nineteen semi-structured qualitative ...
6 days ago · New rules protect pregnant workers, but red states sue over abortion provisions. Republican AGs say the rules support abortions in states where they’re illegal. Women work in a restaurant kitchen in Chicago in March 2023. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a new workplace anti-discrimination law that was passed by Congress with wide ...
Reproductive Rights and Protections in Minnesota. In Doe v. Gomez, the Minnesota Supreme Court first recognized that the Minnesota Constitution guarantees the fundamental right of privacy to choose between childbirth and abortion. In January 2023, Governor Walz signed Minnesota’s Protect Reproductive Options Act into law, affirming ...
Feb 15, 2011 · The bill that would ensure no loopholes in the Obamacare bill can authorize abortion funding under the federal law received a positive vote from House Energy and Commerce today. The legislation also protects conscience rights for medical workers. On Friday, a subcommittee approved the bill and, today the full committee voted to send the Protect […]
Apr 28, 2020 · The provisions on voluntary abortion were removed from the Criminal Code and transferred to separate legislation, the ‘Act on the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy’, adopted in October 2018. 15 However, as will be demonstrated below, the extraction of the provisions from the Criminal Code did not fully decriminalise abortion.
