Landmark Pain-Capable and Five-Month Abortion Bans
|*This map is current as of August 2019.
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Legislative and Litigation Overview of Five-Month Abortion Laws Enacted Before or After 2010
|The entire paper may be viewed as a pdf here: On-Point-34_Legislative-and-Litigation-Overview-of-Five-Month-Abortion-Laws-Enacted-Before-and-After-2010_Final This paper sets out legislative and litigation information involving state laws that prohibit abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy, roughly five months or more than halfway through pregnancy. Summary Since January 2010, twenty-one states have enacted statutes prohibiting abortion at 20 […]
America: A Global Outlier for Its Ultra-Permissive Abortion Policy
|Recently, the Atlantic published an article entitled “Why America is a Global Outlier on Abortion.” The author, Olga Khazan, wrote that the United States stands apart from the rest of the developed world due to restrictions to public funding of abortion.