State passes new six-week abortion ban that lawmakers call ‘insult to voters’

Bill faces constitutional hurdles as previous abortion bans were struck down by state supreme court in January…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/15/abortion-wyoming-supreme-court

 

South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down state abortion ban

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a ban on abortion after six weeks, ruling the restriction enacted by the Deep South state violates a state constitutional right to privacy...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-carolina-supreme-court-strikes-state-abortion-ban-rcna64583

The ER wouldn't treat her miscarriage. Ohio's 6-week abortion ban was in effect : Shots - Health News : NPR

Health care providers use the same clinical tools to manage a miscarriage as they do to perform abortions – the medications and surgical options are identical. That can mean when someone seeks care during a miscarriage, a pharmacist or doctor who suspects a patient is seeking an abortion might deny or delay providing treatment, fearing prosecution...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/11/15/1135882310/miscarriage-hemorrhage-abortion-law-ohio

Georgia judge overturns state's six-week abortion ban | Reuters

Judge Robert McBurney of the Superior Court of Fulton County said the law was void at the time it was passed in 2019 under the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling, which established a federal right to abortion in 1973. McBurney said the state would have to pass the law again now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe for the ban to be valid. The 2019 law was "plainly unconstitutional when drafted, voted upon, and enacted," McBurney wrote in his opinion...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-state-georgias-six-week-abortion-ban-blocked-by-judge-2022-11-15/

Republicans in Congress Consider a Bill That Would Ban Most Abortions -- Mother Jones

On Wednesday morning, a House committee held a hearing on a bill that would make abortions illegal as early as six weeks into a pregnancy—a point at which many women do not yet know they are pregnant. ....
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/11/republicans-in-congress-consider-a-bill-that-would-ban-most-abortions/