1. Controversy and the Abortion Debate
... , when and under what circumstances a woman may obtain an abortion. According to the Guttmacher Institute, ("An Overview of Abortion laws") the following state laws are instituted: Physician and Hospital Requirements: 39 states require an abortion to be performed by a licensed physician, 20 states require an abortion to be performed in a hospital after a specified point in the pregnancy, and 18 states require ... limits funding to cases of life endangerment only. Refusal - 46 states allow individual health care providers to refuse to participate in an abortion. 43 states allow institutio...
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