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Bookmark or Share- Abortion, Health Workforce Top 2025 State Legislative PrioritiesState lawmakers and lobbying groups are responding accordingly for 2025, preparing legislation on abortion medication, contraception, and pregnancy centers. In California, Democratic lawmakers are hoping to advance multiple bills in early January, including one ( AB 54 ) protecting the distribution and administration of medication abortion.
- 2024 brought more dramatic changes in abortion rights across the U.S ...It's been more than two years since the Supreme Court overturned a federal right to abortion and gave the issue to the states. 2025 could be the year states start battling each other in court.
- Abortion access will come slowly to rural MissouriAfter abortion was codified under Roe v. Wade in 1973, states with lawmakers who opposed abortion access began passing laws aimed at limiting it. They included laws that made clinic licensing, accreditation and other operations increasingly difficult. Missouri lawmakers began layering restrictions on abortion providers by the late 1980s.
- What U.S. Abortion Legislation Looks Like in 2023 - ProPublicaUltimate constitutional oversight of abortion law has moved from the U.S. Supreme Court to 50 state courts that are newly interpreting what rights are protected by state constitutions.
- U.S. Abortion Rights by State | Map, Legal Rights, Details ...In the 2024 election, voters in seven states—Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, and New York— approved ballot measures to either enshrine abortion rights in state constitutions or create laws that expanded or protected abortion access.
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