is abortion considered murder?
Abortion is not categorically treated as murder across law, medicine, or most secular legal systems today: murder, by legal definition, requires the killing of a person with malice aforethought, and m...
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Recent changes in abortion laws following the Dobbs decision
Abortion is not categorically treated as murder across law, medicine, or most secular legal systems today: murder, by legal definition, requires the killing of a person with malice aforethought, and m...
A bipartisan cascade of state actions since Dobbs has left a patchwork: as of November 2025, a set of states protect abortion through explicit constitutional amendments, state statutes, or state-court...
women who obtain abortions have had at least one prior abortion, meaning many people who have abortions experience more than one over their lifetimes . Cross‑national and facility studies show repeat ...
From a pro‑life vantage, the most cited emphasize annual counts, historical trends, state-by-state variation after Dobbs, and showing limits on support for unrestricted abortion; reliable national tal...
Banning abortion is strongly associated with an increase in unsafe abortions worldwide, and U.S.-focused research since Dobbs finds that state bans have produced more forced births, worse infant outco...