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Guam’s attorney general says a 1990 law that prohibited virtually all abortion is invalid and won’t take effect. That means the status quo allowing women to obtain abortions via telemedicine may continue in the predominantly Catholic U.S. territory.
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Hawaiʻi legalized abortion in 1970 when it became the first state in the nation to allow the procedure at a woman’s request. But abortion care was a fundamental part of Native Hawaiian health care history, says Indigenous health scholar Kealoha Fox. HPR's Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports.
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There are people who applauded the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, some for personal and religious reasons, others for legal ones. Oʻahu attorney and President of Hawaii Family Advocates Jim Hochberg sat down with The Conversation to talk about how the decision legally affects Hawaiʻi.
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The U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade on Friday, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion upheld for nearly a half-century no longer exists. Hawaiʻi's attorney general said that despite the ruling, abortion remains protected under Hawaiʻi law.
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Responses to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion were mixed across the country.
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Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, numerous states have banned abortion. Here are the states with bans or severe restrictions in effect, on hold or pending.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, reversing Roe v. Wade, the court's five-decade-old decision that guaranteed a woman's right to obtain an abortion.
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The draft Supreme Court opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked last month. More than half the members of Hawaiʻi’s Legislature have signed a formal pledge to protect access to abortion.
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Without Roe, Guam could revert to an abortion ban dating to 1990. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law unconstitutional in 1992, but it has never been repealed.
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If Roe v. Wade is overturned, how would that affect Hawaiʻi law? HPR's Zoe Dym talks to UH law professor Andrea Freeman about what the future of Hawaiʻi abortion law may look like.