Legislative news
On June 24, 2022, The US Supreme court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade, the ruling that established the constitutional right to...
On Wednesday, May 15 Alabama governor Kay Ivey signed HB 314 into law, a bill that bans abortions at any point in...
On March 13, both Utah and Arkansas passed legislation to ban abortion after 18-weeks gestation. In Arkansas, where abortion is already banned after 20 weeks, the House of Representatives voted 86...
Kelly Blanchard, President of Ibis Reproductive Health, released the statement below about the January 22, 2019, passage of New York’s law to protect and expand reproductive health and...
On Wednesday, August 22nd, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Alabama’s Dilation and Evacuation ban (D&E) as unconstitutional, stating that the 2016 law placed “undue burden” on women...
On May 4th, Governor Reynolds signed Iowa’s Senate File 359 into law. Effective July 2018, SF 359 bans abortion at the...
On March 19th, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed into law the Gestational Age Act (House...
On October 3rd, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban abortion occurring 20-weeks post-fertilization. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, introduced by...
Currently, New York outlaws abortion after 24 weeks gestational age. During this stage of pregnancy, fetal nonviability, or the inability to develop or survive independently, can be discovered...
On January 27, 2017, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed into law HB1032, The Arkansas Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act. “Dismemberment abortion” is not a medical...