Russia has the highest number of abortions performed per year, and there are no laws against abortions in Russia when the pregnancy is less than twelve weeks in length up until After that point, the Russian government extended the period during which abortions are legal, up until twenty-two weeks of pregnancy.
Reasons that constitute abortions in Russia include rape, health risks to the pregnant woman, imprisonment of the woman, the risk of death for the mom or the baby, and physical or mental disabilities to the fetus that put the unborn baby in a dangerous position. The table below has each country's abortion law. Note that this is a general list of laws, and every country has more specific rules and exceptions.
Countries Where Abortion Is Illegal Brazil This Latin American country has not completely restricted abortions, but they are not available for any woman or just any reason. Canada Abortions are no longer illegal in Canada, though they were banned until the year Russia As the largest country in the world, Russia is the country that leads in the number of abortions performed on an annual basis. Show Source. World Abortion Policies Supporters of the law hope it will force the Supreme Court to revisit Roe v Wade.
A federal judge has blocked enforcement of the ban pending a legal challenge by Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, and the American Civil Liberties Union. In anticipation of potential legal challenges, he also signed an alternative law banning abortion from six weeks, which also states that a doctor performing an abortion after this time would be guilty of homicide.
The law is scheduled to take effect on Sept. A judge has suspended enforcement of the laws pending a legal challenge by Planned Parenthood. The law is on hold pending a legal challenge by Planned Parenthood. TENNESSEE - The state passed a sweeping measure in , which included banning abortion as early as six weeks, and requiring patients to be told about a possibility of reversing medication abortions, which is disputed by many medical experts.
Most of the law has been blocked due to a legal challenge. However, a provision banning abortions based on a Down's syndrome diagnosis is in effect. OHIO - A federal appeals court ruled in April that Ohio can enforce a law banning abortions when medical tests show that a fetus has Down's syndrome. Ohio also approved a bill last year requiring fetal tissue be cremated or buried.
The ban was signed into law, but struck down by a court in But these legislative efforts are distinct from those of previous years in two ways. First is the difference in sheer quantity: In , the United States has already seen the highest number of abortion restrictions enacted in a single year , according to the Guttmacher Institute. In May , the Supreme Court announced that it would hear Dobbs v.
Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey , which guarantee the right to abortion and prohibit states from barring it before the point of viability.
This issue brief breaks down the abortion bans and restrictions that state legislatures have passed this year, such as the most recent law in Texas, as well as highlights states that have protected and expanded abortion rights. Abortion is essential health care, critical to health equity, reproductive autonomy, and racial, gender, and economic justice; it also helps ensure that people can control their own bodies, lives, and futures.
The restrictions that some states are enacting disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous, and Latino individuals; people with low incomes; LGBTQ people; young people; people with disabilities; immigrants; and people in rural areas, for whom legal and systemic barriers frequently already put abortion care out of reach.
This onslaught of restrictive state laws and the upcoming arguments in Dobbs v. While some states are attempting to restrict bodily autonomy and eliminate abortion rights entirely, others are working to protect and expand them. These efforts are particularly important because they take steps toward safeguarding abortion access in the states that enact them, even if the Supreme Court does gut long-standing abortion-rights precedent with Dobbs v.
For example, New Mexico repealed a criminal abortion statute this year that had been on the books since , paving the way for abortion access in the state.
At the federal level, the Biden administration has fortunately taken some important steps to undo the harms of the Trump administration and protect access to reproductive health care, including by pausing the U. More recently, the U. Amid the COVID pandemic, which presented the greatest public health threat in generations and exposed long-present systemic inequities in the U.
The Guttmacher Institute, which tracks state-level abortion legislation, has marked as the most devastating state legislative session for abortion rights in history. Wade to 1, Number of those introduced abortion-restrictive statutes enacted into law as of August These newly enacted restrictions compound the harms of abortion-restrictive laws that preceded them. Of the 97 new measures, more than 80 were signed into law in states that already have onerous abortion restrictions, making abortion even harder to access.
The Texas law enforces its ban with an uncommon approach: it empowers any private citizen to sue anyone who "aids and abets" an illegal abortion. The legislation makes an exception in the case of medical emergency, which requires written proof from a doctor, but not for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
Texan women who wish to have an abortion after six weeks will need to travel across state lines, or - as estimated by the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute - an average of miles km. Most abortion restrictions that have been proposed before have relied on criminal penalties or some form of regulatory punishment. The Texas law instead authorises "a private civil right of action", which allows people to sue to enforce the law even if they themselves have not been harmed.
That means people like clinic staff, family members, or clergy who encourage or support the procedure could, in theory, be sued. Turning over enforcement of the Heartbeat Act to private citizens instead of government officials likely means that - in the absence of Supreme Court intervention - the law cannot be challenged until a private citizen seeks damages.
Kim Schwartz of the Texas Right to Life organisation, which supports the measure, told the BBC most anti-abortion laws are "held up in the court system for years" and this "thwarts the will of the people". She argued that courts would require "a credible claim that an illegal abortion occurred" and would still undergo fact-finding processes.
But the ACLU and other critics have suggested the Texas law will champion "a bounty hunting scheme" of costly "vigilante lawsuits" designed to harass women seeking an abortion. The ACLU noted tip lines have already been set up by anti-abortion groups.
Abortion has long been one of the country's most contentious social issues.
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