• Abortion in Connecticut is legal up to the point of fetal viability, or after that if necessary to preserve the life or health (including mental health)...
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    July 2, 2022. "Abortion Access In Connecticut". State of Connecticut. Retrieved October 6, 2023. "Abortion In Connecticut". Abortion Finder. Retrieved...
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    to quickening in every state under the common law. Connecticut was the first state to regulate abortion in 1821; it outlawed abortion after quickening...
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  • Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage...
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    Abortion laws vary widely among countries and territories, and have changed over time. Such laws range from abortion being freely available on request...
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  • Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United...
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    estimates of one abortion for every 4 live births. Anti-abortion statutes began to appear in the United States from the 1820s. A Connecticut law in 1821 targeted...
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    Connecticut (/kəˈnɛtɪkət/ kə-NET-ik-ət) is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island...
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  • Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (category Anti-abortion movement in the United States)
    the U.S. Supreme Court in which the court held that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion. The court's decision overruled...
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    An unsafe abortion is a life-threatening procedure. It includes self-induced abortions, abortions in unhygienic conditions, and abortions performed by...
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    weeks. In America an abortion reform movement emerged in the 1960s. In 1964, Gerri Santoro of Connecticut died trying to obtain an illegal abortion and her...
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  • Roe v. Wade (category United States abortion case law)
    view. The criminality of abortion at common law is a matter of debate by historians and legal scholars. In 1821, Connecticut passed the first state statute...
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  • Matt Blumenthal (category Jewish American state legislators in Connecticut)
    facilitate the provision of abortions in Connecticut and are sued under laws like that in Texas to countersue in Connecticut for equivalent damages, prevents...
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    Rosa DeLauro (category Women in Connecticut politics)
    representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in New Haven and includes...
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    high-profile therapeutic abortion cases, such as that of Sherri Finkbine. In 1965, a Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut set a precedent for...
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  • Abortion in Massachusetts is legal at all stages of pregnancy, although terminations after the 24th week can only be performed if a physician determines...
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  • Abortion in Alaska is legal on demand at all stages of pregnancy, as long as a licensed physician performs the procedure. As of 2016, Alaska does not...
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  • Wade in June 2022, several states have enacted abortion shield laws to protect abortion access. The goal of these laws is to ensure that providers (in the...
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    rallying for abortion rights gathered in Green Bay. On June 12, dozens of abortion rights protestors marched in Greenfield. Connecticut saw protests in Bridgeport...
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  • Abortion in New Mexico is legal at all stages of pregnancy. The number of abortion clinics in New Mexico has declined over the years, with 26 in 1982,...
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    The United States abortion-rights movement (also known as the pro-choice movement) is a sociopolitical movement in the United States supporting the view...
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  • anti-abortion organizations in the United States. Individual organizations on this list may either be primarily oriented towards anti-abortion activism...
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  • Abortion in New York is legal, although abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy require a physician's approval. Abortion was legalized up to the 24th...
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    Comstock laws (category 1873 in American law)
    abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use; and every article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing which is advertised or described in a...
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  • Abortion in Washington is legal and available up to the point of fetal viability, or in case the pregnancy poses a risk to life or health. In a poll by...
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  • Abortion in New Jersey is legal at all stages of pregnancy. Abortion related laws were drafted by the legislature by the end of the 1900s. These laws would...
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    Amy Brenneman (category Actresses from Connecticut)
    Club (2007). Brenneman was born in New London, Connecticut, to Frederica Joanne (née Shoenfield), a judge of the Connecticut State Superior Court, and Russell...
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  • Democrats for Life of America (category Anti-abortion organizations in the United States)
    anti-abortion Democrats and to encourage the Democratic Party to oppose euthanasia, capital punishment, and abortion. DFLA's position on abortion is in opposition...
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    2024 United States elections (category 2024 elections in the United States)
    bans on abortion in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision. By April 2023, abortion was "largely...
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    Ross Douthat (category Catholics from Connecticut)
    of Connecticut. His father, Charles Douthat, is a partner in a New Haven law firm and a poet. Douthat attended Hamden Hall, a private high school in Hamden...
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