is it illegal to obtain an abortion in any U.S. state?
399491
Yes.  All states have limitation on getting a late term abortions.
757303
Yes, it is illegal. It depends on your area if they will enforce (redneck, hillbillie towns normaly like to mind thier business when it comes to these sort of things). If someone gets pregnent by a realitive the chance of birth defects and other abnormalites escalate.\n\nDon't confuse caring about someone with those types of feelings, there are may other people out in the world. Family is family, love that person like a sibling, don't take them as a lover.
1155786
in Romania it was illegal(till 1990) and many women still did it in horrible conditions and died after or where sterile for the rest of their lives and some of them who had an unwanted child abandoned the baby so there were many abandoned children, and women who were in ther 40s had to have the child. don't get me wrong, I'm against abortion but i believe also in a woman's right to choose and i must say that in this time it was illegal using contraceptives and condoms, you had to have relations and money to be able to find contraceptives, you couldn't find them in pharmacies.
372501
I agree that a woman should have the right to chose and there are lots of children out there who have to go through foster homes and live very hard lives. I am pro choice. I also think that if it is made illegal then there are going to be alot of women dying from having abortions done in "hole in the wall" places that are not sanitary or under almost torturous conditions. I could never do it but sometimes you have to do what you have to do. I think that when a person says they are pro life that they are not looking at the bigger picture. Ask them if they want to pay higher taxes that will come from the government having to take care of the children that abandoned from the mothers that didnt want or couldnt take care of these children.
1065943
IN VERY STATE IT'S ILLEGAL AS HELL. YOUR KIDS MAY GET ALOT OF BAD GENES.
912191
Yes, abortion is legal in Japan and here is some background information on abortion in Japan.\n\nIn order to get into the website I listed below, you must have Microsoft Word on your computer or downloaded to your computer.\n\nI hoped this helped answer your question.\n\n\nBACKGROUND\n\nAbortion in Japan is governed by two pieces of legislation. The first is the Criminal Code, which was first enacted in 1880 and in its present form dates from 1908. It prohibits the performance of all abortions; a woman who performs her own abortion is subject to up to one year’s imprisonment, and a person who performs an abortion on another is subject to up to two years’ imprisonment. Medical personnel are subject to harsher penalties. This prohibition against abortion reflects primarily the desire of the Japanese Government in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century to increase the nation’s rate of population growth in order to support Japanese expansion.\n\nThe second piece of legislation governing abortion is the Eugenic Protection Law. This Law has its source in eugenics legislation that was enacted in 1940 and is patterned on similar National Socialist German legislation of the 1930s. In its original form, the Law had a two-fold purpose: 1) to increase the number of Japanese; and 2) to prevent the birth of genetically inferior offspring and promote a genetically healthy population. It permitted sterilization only for the prevention of hereditary diseases, and abortion only to save the life of the pregnant woman. \n\nThe current Eugenic Protection Law was approved in 1948 and, as amended in 1949 and 1952, was in effect with largely the same wording until 1996. The Law was a product of socio-economic conditions in Japan in the years immediately following the Second World War, when the country faced a serious imbalance between its rapidly growing population and war-shattered economy.  The need to limit family size became increasingly apparent and there was a high incidence of illegally induced abortion.  The Government responded by promoting family planning through the methods then available, which were mostly traditional, and by legalizing abortion.\n\n\nGrounds on which abortion is permitted: \n\nTo save the life of the womanYes\nTo preserve physical healthYes\nTo preserve mental healthNo*\nRape or incestYes\nFoetal impairmentNo*\nEconomic or social reasonsYes\nAvailable on requestNo\n\nAdditional requirements:\n\nInduced abortions are allowed only within the first 24 weeks of gestation.  All legal abortions must be performed within medical facilities at the discretion of a physician designated by a local medical association.  The consent of the woman or her spouse is required, while the consent of a mentally retarded woman can be given by her guardian.  When the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest, the abortion can be performed without the legal consent of the woman.\n______________\n\n* While Japan’s abortion law allows abortions to be performed on the specific ground of physical health, it contains no specific mental health grounds, nor does it specifically authorize abortions to be performed in the case of foetal impairment.  However, since the law allows abortions to be performed for socio-economic reasons, mental health and foetal impairment grounds are presumably covered by this ground.
458760
There are more reasons than "I didn't want the baby" that women have abortions.  Health (of mother and fetus), rape, age, lifestyle, are some factors in why a woman chooses to abort.  If Abortion wasn't legal, She wouldn't have the law and health care providers looking out for her overall welfare (for her and her unborn fetus).  In the grand scheme of things, it's only in recent history that women have even been consider as actual people with rights.  We have made great strides in that arena in a very short period, but the fact of the matter is...men unfortunately still hold governmental power, and if abortion wasn't legal, we would be taking HUGE leaps backward in equal civil rights for ALL humans regardless of race, or sex.  When most people think of abortion, they think that women use it as a form of birth control...and while I"m not argueing that they don't (because a small percentage do) But most people don't realize that there are many factors that go into making that kind of decision, and if it's taken away from us, then in effect, we are being told that we don't have a right to choose. Women can't get pregnant without a man...whether it be through physical contact, or insemination.  Taking away the right to an abortion takes away the right for us to decide what we want to do with our body...It's easy for a man to get a woman pregnant. It's not always easy for a woman to give birth, and a lot of women have died trying.    Might as well take away our right to vote, or our right to hold a job, or our right to not have a man tell us what to do and when to do it (which at one point in history was a law).  Abortion is about women, plain and simple...We are the only ones that have the power of giving birth...and until men can start giving birth, they are going to do everything they can to take away our rights as individuals with that power, and this is one way they are trying. And you can better believe that if men ever become capable of giving birth, there would be no way abortion would even be talked about as an issue...it would just be law, plain and simple...because making abortion illegal is only about how men can control women.
685021
Yes, there are still states where this is nominally illegal. These are: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and (wouldn't you know it) Washington D.C.\n\nDo note, however, that the U.S. Supreme Court in "Lawrence v. Texas" (J Kennedy writing for the majority) in 2003 struck down all anti-sodomy laws in the United States, declaring that such laws violated the liberty phrase of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Most anti-oral sex laws had not been enforced prior to this overturning.
751636
Don't know about the partial.  In SD, the most restrictive ban on abortion was soundly defeated, and in CA the parental notification law was also soundly defeated.\n\nFundies were again given a nice dose of reality.  Abortion rights and and woman's right to chose will never go away.
748053
No, it is illegal in all states.\n\nUtah was required to outlaw polygamy when it became a state.  Some say that the police look the other way still in regards to polygamy in that state.
1018496
Yes, 60% in fact.\nAnd your facts are right.\n\nThere is obviously a huge emphasis on 'freedom' and democracy in 'America'.\nAnd yes, this also includes murdering little babies.\nIt is sad that such a number of Americans are inclined to believe in this.\nThere has been 70,000 acts of disruption at abortion clinics since it started in America. I would burn all of them down if I had the choice.
1129991
Abortion is completely legal and without any restrictions of any kind in Canada.  Smart people, those Canucks :)
1046713
Back before 1973 (Roe vs. Wade), states could legalize / not legalize aspects of abortion, and under what circumstances they could be performed. So for instance, here in Maryland, there were about 6,000 abortions performed in 1972, under review board process that considered aspects of each pregnancy.\n\nSince Roe v Wade, the 9 justices on the Supreme court 'discovered' it was a constitutional right guaranteed by the USA Founding Fathers, -to have an abortion. States therefore can not supersede this newly found constitutional 'right'.\n\nSo yes, abortion is legal in North Carolina, as it currently is in all 50 states.
1055618
Baby girl this is a touchy subject really.  But it's true a lot of women use abortion as a form of birth control, they have all kinds of unprotected sex and when they turn up pregnant they just go and have the unborn killed and remove like if it was a tumor or something.  In some cases abortion might be acceptable but not for what these women wanna use it for.
770679
It's politics.  Most Republicans want to make abortion illegal (or at least say they do) to satisfy the Christian vote.  Republicans also want to satisfy the voters that want social programs cut.  So they are playing to the appeal of their voters versus making a practical decision based off of what real people would do.
208748
I think there is a lot of political expediency when it comes to abortion from both the "Pro-life" and "Pro-choice" camps.\n\nYou already mentioned the inconsistencies of the Pro-life politicians, but isn't it equally crap that you get Pro-choice politicians who say that they are personally opposed to abortion, but think it should remain "safe, legal, and rare" ? If someone believes it's wrong to get an abortion, the only thing that could make it wrong, is that it is taking a life. And if it is takng a life, then shouldn't it be outlawed ?\n\nSo I think there are many inconsistencies one could find in everyone's arguments.\n\nI myself am opposed to abortion, but am pragmatic. Less is better than more, but none would be optimum. I doubt the American public would ever support a ban on all abortions. The rape, incest, endangered mother's life, deformed baby argument as being the only exceptions I can live with because the vast majority of abortions are simply "late" birth control.
948539
As far as I can tell from what I have read, technically it is not illegal anywhere in the US.  California, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Texas, and Virginia have laws that try to prevent the slaughter of horses, but the laws are not well enforced.  There are all kinds of loopholes and a great deal of horse meat from the US is exported.\n\nThese sites may help you with your debate.