Abortion

Table of Contents

Introduction
Early History
Roe v. Wade
Hyde Amendment & Mexico City Policy
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Federal Regulation Post-Casey
State Restrictions
- Fetal pain laws or 20-week bans
- Ultrasound laws
- Criminalization of abortions based on the sex or race of a fetus
- Fetal abnormality laws
- “Fetal heartbeat” laws or six-week bans
- Admitting privileges and surgical center standards laws
- Trigger laws
- Roe v. Wade protection laws
- Laws designed to challenge Roe v. Wade in court
- COVID-19 (coronavirus) restrictions
- Civil lawsuit abortion restrictions
- Protections against civil lawsuit abortion restrictions
- Medication abortion restrictions
- “Abortion trafficking” restrictions
Roe v. Wade in 2022
Post-Roe and -Casey
Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Groups
Public Opinion
Contemporary Abortion Procedures
Abortion Statistics
Pros
- Pro 1: Abortion is a safe medical procedure that protects lives.
- Pro 2: Abortion bans endanger healthcare for those not seeking abortions.
- Pro 3: Abortion bans deny bodily autonomy, creating wide-ranging repercussions.
Pro Quotes
Cons
- Con 1: Life begins at conception, making abortion murder.
- Con 2: Legal abortion promotes a culture in which life is disposable.
- Con 3: Increased access to birth control, health insurance, and sexual education would make abortion unnecessary.
Con Quotes
Religious Views on the Legalization of Abortion
- Pro: Buddhism
- Pro: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- Pro: Episcopal Church
- Pro: Presbyterian Church USA
- Pro: Unitarian Universalist Association
- Pro: United Church of Christ
- Not Clearly Pro or Con: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- Not Clearly Pro or Con: Judaism
- Not Clearly Pro or Con: National Baptist Convention
- Not Clearly Pro or Con: Seventh-Day Adventist Church
- Not Clearly Pro or Con: United Methodist Church
- Con: Assemblies of God
- Con: Catholic Church
- Con: Greek Orthodox
- Con: Hinduism
- Con: Islam
- Con: Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Con: Southern Baptist Convention
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