What is the legal time limit for abortion in your state?

Question

For research, in a debate, not pregnant. If possible include resource.

Answer 1

WE ARE IN nH AND IT IS ILLEAGAL TO GET AN AGORTION AFTER 12 WEEKS.

Answer 2

Mueller first tried to arrange for the procedure at a Twin Cities hospital, which had the necessary surgical equipment (the patient was 17 weeks pregnant), but was told that she would first have to convince the hospital's "abortion committee." (According to Tim Stanley, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota, Regions Hospital in St. Paul is the only facility in the state to readily provide abortions. The other 136 Minnesota hospitals require that a physician negotiate a screening committee. Depending on committee members' beliefs and fears, policies vary widely.) "I had no idea that I would have to get permission [for a legal procedure]," Mueller recalls.

Not only does Minnesota have one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country pertaining to minors--both legal guardians have to be notified; if the parents don't support the termination, the minor must appear before a judge--but only a physician can legally provide an abortion, even a miscarriage induced by the so-called abortion pill, RU-486. While a handful of states, including Connecticut and New York, allow nurse practitioners and nurse midwives to dispense it with relative ease, Minnesota law requires that a doctor personally put the pill in the patient's hand and watch her swallow it. And, in fact, after RU-486 became legal in 2000, according to Stanley, most local hospitals and clinics declined to provide the pill at all, for fear of being targeted by antichoice activists.

Answer 3

In Oklahoma, I believe it's 12 weeks. However, this is a backwards state, & Oklahoma has many laws restricting access to abortion (parental consent for minors seeking abortion, restricting access for low income women who may not be able to pay for an abortion, biased counseling for pregnant women who aren't sure what to do).

On the flip side, Oklahoma is a poverty state, and has one of the nation's highest percentages of welfare & food stamp recipients. Now, with everybody around me in Oklahoma complaining about the "welfare whores" and "instant made criminals" born in this state, why are we restricting access to abortion in every way possible in Oklahoma, especially for low income women?

Answer 4

"In 1970, New York State passed the nation's first law legalizing abortion without restriction up to the 24th week of pregnancy"

I'm pro-choice but I think 24 weeks is a bit much...

My links are websites that says they will do up through the end of the 2nd trimester.

Answer 5

I'm in ontario and the hospatal offered to send me somewhere if i need too because they thought my daughter had downs syndrome. I was almost 20 weeks. That's kind of ewwww Even if my kid had two heads......

Answer 6

6 weeks..... its still a mass of something, nothing formed