abortion bill

News 04/12/22, 00:22

Lawmakers in Maryland, U.S., on Saturday, April 9, voted to override the state governor's veto of a bill allowing any health care professional to perform an abortion. Republican Governor Larry Hogan on Friday vetoed the bill, HB 937, known as the Access to Abortion Care Act, which had passed both chambers ...

News 04/06/22, 22:54

Oklahoma lawmakers on Tuesday, April 5, approved a bill that will make abortion illegal in the state, except in cases where the mother's life is at risk and will penalize those who break the law with jail time, according to Fox News.  The law that will make abortion a felony was ...

Washington 10/22/21, 21:50

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday, October 22, that it will review lawsuits filed against Texas' 'heartbeat' law banning abortions after six weeks gestation, which challenge the constitutionality of the particular way the pro-life law is enforced, CBS reported. In May of this year, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott passed S.B. ...

U.S. 10/03/21, 16:13

The woman whose mother's desire to abort her gave rise to the historic Roe v Wade case has agreed to give her first-ever televised interview. Shelley Lynn Thornton, 51, was born in Texas before her mother, Norma McCorvey, was granted the right to have an abortion. McCorvey, who died in 2017 at ...

News 09/25/21, 18:01

House Democrats on Friday, Sept. 24, approved a bill, which, if passed in the Senate, would force all states to legalize the killing of unborn babies in abortions without limits and up to the date of birth. House representatives voted 218-211 approving the so-called Women's Health Protection Act, legislation that would ...

U.S. 09/23/21, 06:17

GOP Florida state Rep. Webster Barnaby on Wednesday, Sept. 22, introduced an abortion legislation bill similar to that of Texas.  Mirroring the Texas Heartbeat Act, the measure, HB167, seeks to prohibit abortion of six-week and older fetus, or typically when a fetal heartbeat can be detected unless it was for an emergency. Tests ...