abortion laws

Alabama

Abortion after 12 weeks banned in NC, GOP lawmakers override veto | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Legislation banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy will become law in North Carolina after the state’s Republican-controlled General Assembly successfully overrode the Democratic governor’s veto late Tuesday.The House completed the second and final part of the override vote after a similar three-fifths majority — the fraction necessary — voted for the override earlier […]

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Mayor

Illinois abortion: Mayor Lightfoot, Planned Parenthood to give update on reproductive rights

ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team via CHICAGO (WLS) — Mayor Lori Lightfoot will join Planned Parenthood of Illinois to give an update on reproductive rights Thursday. Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady will also be at the news conference at City Hall. Indiana abortion bill banning nearly all instances of procedure advances, despite […]

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Arkansas

Governor Asa Hutchinson says Arkansas’s near-total abortion ban should be revisited if Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ near-total abortion ban should be “revisited” to provide exceptions for instances of rape or incest should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, the state’s Republican governor said Sunday. “While it’s still life in the womb, life of the unborn, the conception was under criminal circumstances, either incest or rape. […]

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