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11 maj 2022 · A Democratic bill to protect abortion access fails in the Senate, squelching a bid to act before Roe is overturned. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, said the legislation...
31 paź 2024 · Current Law. Texas had already put its six-week abortion ban, known as Senate Bill 8, into effect before the Dobbs decision. However, this ruling led to even stricter regulations.
4 wrz 2021 · The state’s Senate Bill 8, one of the most restrictive abortion bans to be signed into law, bans all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy — including in cases of rape and incest — and...
1 wrz 2021 · A controversial Texas law that bars abortions at six weeks went into effect early Wednesday morning after the Supreme Court and a federal appeals court failed to rule on pending emergency...
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 46-48 Monday to block a bill pushed by Democrats to codify abortion rights into federal law ahead of an expected Supreme Court decision that could limit access...
1 lis 2021 · Liberal Justice Elena Kagan told lawyers for Texas that when the Supreme Court made abortion legal across the US in 1973, "no state dreamed" of trying to bypass a federal ruling.
2 wrz 2021 · In an unsigned ruling backed by a narrow 5-4 majority, the court justices allowed a Texas law banning all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to go into effect.
