On March 24, 2010, US President Barack Obama signed an executive order continuing a prohibition on the use of federal funds for abortion except in cases of rape or incest or where a woman's life would be endangered. Some anti-abortion congressional Democrats insisted on the order as a condition for their support of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which Obama signed into law the day before.
Learn more about laws regulating abortion from the JURIST news archive.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
SYNDICATION
