The legality of abortion in the United States and the various restrictions imposed on the procedure vary significantly depending on the laws of each state...

Abortion is a divisive issue in the United States. The issue of abortion is prevalent in American politics and culture wars, though a majority of Americans...

these laws is to ensure that providers (in the state where abortion is legal) can perform abortions for patients who traveled from states where abortion is...

common law in England and the United States, abortion was illegal anytime after quickening—when the movements of the fetus could first be felt by the woman...

Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition. State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and...

an abortion, in a law approved by Governor Rick Scott in 2015. The exceptions to the 6 week gestational age (since last menstrual period) abortion ban...

Abortion in Alabama is illegal. Historically, Alabama's abortion laws have evolved from strict regulations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to...

Abortion in Europe varies considerably between countries and territories due to differing national laws and policies on its legality, availability of...

leave the state or forced them to give birth while jeopardizing their health. The legal status of abortion in Texas is due to a trigger law passed in July...

expression in state laws which prohibited or restricted abortions in a variety of ways. (See Abortion in the United States.) The anti-abortion movement...

The state passed a law in the 2000s banning abortions after 22 weeks because they alleged that fetus can feel pain. The state was one of 23 states in...

In the United States, state law refers to the law of each separate U.S. state. The fifty states are separate sovereigns, with their own state constitutions...

that abortion should be illegal in all or most cases. Abortion was a criminal offense for women by 1950.  By 2007, the state had informed consent laws on...

Both the Guttmacher Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regularly report abortion statistics in the United States. They...

key point in abortion rights in the United States was the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which struck down most state laws restricting...

for a woman to have an abortion. In 1962, the American Law Institute published their model penal code, as it applied to abortions, with three circumstances...

Abortion is the termination of human pregnancy, often performed in the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. In 1973, the United States Supreme Court in Roe v...

challenged in court following abortion rights being placed into the Ohio State Constitution. In November 2023, a constitutional amendment was approved by a majority...

Abortion in Utah is legally performed under a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the state's trigger law, which bans abortion. According...

elective abortions in Wisconsin are under dispute after the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 24, 2022. Abortion opponents...

Moyle v. United States is a pending United States Supreme Court case about whether an Idaho abortion law conflicts with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment...

decision of 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...

perform an abortion. A version of this was enacted into law in 1967.[citation needed] Colorado became the first state to decriminalize abortion in cases of...

list of organizations involved in the United States abortion-rights movement (also called the pro-choice movement). The movement consists of a variety...

Abortion in the United Kingdom is de facto available under the terms of the Abortion Act 1967 in Great Britain and the Abortion (Northern Ireland) (No...

Since 2021, abortion has no longer been a federal crime in Mexico. However, the criminal law in Mexico varies by state. On 7 September 2023, the Mexican Supreme...

exception where they did not allow abortion in the case of incest. The state passed a law in the 2000s banning abortions at 22 weeks because they alleged...

abortion in Missouri is illegal, with abortions only being legal in cases of medical emergency and several additional laws making access to abortion services...

2012 abortion law in January 2015, the law banning abortion remains on the books. By 1973, when Roe v. Wade was decided, Arizona's abortion law A.R.S...

Abortion is illegal in the Philippines. The constitutional provision that "[The State] shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the...