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- Title
State Actions on Reproductive Health Issues in 1994.
- Authors
Sollom, Terry
- Abstract
This article reports that in 1994, several significant, encouraging trends concerning reproductive health issues unfolded at the state level in the U.S., as policymakers considered hundreds of legislative and administrative proposals. State legislators across the U.S. were inundated with more than 436 bills related to abortion, family planning, teenage pregnancy and infertility. By the end of the year, 19 of these bills had been approved, with five later vetoed. During the last legislative term, 304 bills on abortion-related issues were introduced in 38 states, with one-half meant to limit access to abortion services and one-third intended to protect abortion rights by safeguarding clinics from harassment and violence and guaranteeing abortion legality. By the end of 1994, two restrictive measures and two clinic access bills had been enacted. Attempts by state legislatures to ban abortion outright or severely restrict its legality appear to have ended. In 1994, no bills to outlaw abortion were even introduced.
- Subjects
UNITED States; REPRODUCTIVE health; LEGISLATION; ABORTION policy; LEGISLATIVE bills; HUMAN reproduction
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135911