abortion laws

The woman sat across from me at my desk. She told me that she wanted to carry her pregnancy to term because she wanted so much to have a baby, but she couldn’t go on any longer. “I don’t feel pregnant. I feel poisoned.” The woman sat across from me at my desk. She told me that she wanted to carry her pregnancy to term because she wanted so much to have a baby, but she couldn’t go on any longer. “I don’t feel pregnant. I feel poisoned.”

There is also growing momentum for some states to make it easier to get an abortion, by allocating taxpayer funding for abortion services, for example, or mandating insurance coverage with no additional cost. In recent years some states, such as Maine, Illinois and Virginia, have changed their laws to allow medical professionals who are not doctors, like nurses, to perform surgical abortions. Eight states, including California, New York and Washington, have laws that guarantee the right to get an abortion.