USA – Abortion bans don’t prosecute pregnant people. That may be about to change.

Legislation in Oklahoma and remarks from the Alabama attorney general could foreshadow new efforts to punish people who induce their own abortions.

Shefali Luthra, Health Reporter
January 13, 2023

As state lawmakers weigh new restrictions on abortion, some Republicans are revisiting a longstanding taboo of not prosecuting pregnant people for seeking abortions in places where the procedure is banned, though the topic remains divisive among anti-abortion advocates.

State restrictions have so far fallen just shy of imposing criminal penalties on people who seek abortions, instead targeting physicians, health care providers and anyone else who might help someone get an abortion.

Continued: https://19thnews.org/2023/01/abortion-bans-pregnant-people-prosecution/

Conflict over U.S. abortion laws won’t abate if Roe v. Wade falls

David Crary, The Associated Press
Published Saturday, November 20, 2021

On both sides of America's abortion debate, activists are convinced that Roe v. Wade -- the 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion -- is imperiled as never before.

Yet no matter how the current conservative-dominated court handles pending high-profile abortion cases -- perhaps weakening Roe, perhaps gutting it completely -- there will be no monolithic, nationwide change. Fractious state-by-state battles over abortion access will continue.

Continued: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/conflict-over-u-s-abortion-laws-won-t-abate-if-roe-v-wade-falls-1.5674514

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