North Carolina Law
What is the new abortion ban law in NC? The new law reduces the time allowed for an abortion from 20 weeks to 12 weeks and requires an in-person counseling appointment at least three days/72 hours before the abortion procedure. A follow-up appointment is required for medication abortion patients 7 to 14 days after the abortion.”
Are there any reasons I will be allowed an abortion after 12 weeks in N.C.? Yes.
- Legal through 20 weeks in cases of rape or incest
- Legal through 24 weeks if physicians detect a life-limiting anomaly.
- Thereafter, abortion is legal only in cases of a medical emergency.
Tennesee Abortion Laws
It is now illegal in Tennessee to abort an unborn child who has a heartbeat. Specifically, the Heartbeat Bill protects unborn children at 6 weeks gestational age who have a heartbeat, and it also protects unborn children at 8 weeks gestational age or older. These provisions in the Heartbeat Bill have an affirmative defense for medical emergencies.
South Carolina Abortion Laws
Abortions may not be performed in this state after a fetal heartbeat has been detected, with exceptions for medical emergencies, rape, incest, or fatal fetal anomalies.
Virginia Abortion Laws
Virginia provides legal protection for abortion through the second trimester of pregnancy. After that, access to abortion remains severely limited to cases where the patient's life is at risk, or there will be substantial harm to the patient's physical or mental health.
Georgia Abortion Laws
Abortion is legal in Georgia until the presence of a detectable fetal heartbeat. State law defines a detectable fetal heartbeat as "embryonic or fetal cardiac activity or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the heart within the gestational sac."
The state provides exceptions to its abortion ban in the following cases:
- Medical Emergency: If a physician determines there is a condition that makes an abortion necessary to prevent death or a substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function to the pregnant woman, an abortion is legal.
- Rape or Incest: This exception applies if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, a police report has been filed, and the probable gestational age of the fetus is 20 weeks or less.
- Medical Futility: Abortion is permitted when a physician determines that the fetus has a profound and irremediable congenital or chromosomal anomaly that is incompatible with life after birth.