Abortion

We spoke with Mary Ziegler, author of "Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present," about the implications of a bill proposed for the next legislative session.

The Department of Health and Human Services said Monday its new regulation, which will go into effect Nov. 8, will restore clinics' ability to refer women seeking abortions to a provider.

Abortions in England, Wales and Scotland are allowed until 24 weeks, but the law says terminations can be allowed until birth if there’s “a substantial risk" the child would be "seriously handicapped."

Rep. Webster Barnaby filed a proposal dubbed the "Florida Heartbeat Act" that would block physicians from performing abortions if there is a “detectable fetal heartbeat."

Democratic lawmakers quickly condemned the Supreme Court decision and Republican leaders for considering bringing similar legislation up for discussion during the 2022 legislative session.

The president is one of a disappearing group of politicians who sought moderate compromises on abortion. His supporters want faster changes. But abortion-rights opponents are also taking him to task.

The poll comes weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving a currently blocked Mississippi law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks.

The measure would prevent doctors from performing abortions that women seek because of tests showing that fetuses will have disabilities.

The bill, which drew emotional debate among subcommittee members. would involve situations in which doctors know a person is seeking an abortion because the fetus will have a disability.

At issue were FDA regulations that required women seeking medication abortion to pick up the prescribed pills in person at a clinic. Doctors had cited the risk of exposing patients to the coronavirus.