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The Supreme Court, however, beginning as early as 1923 and continuing through its recent decisions, has broadly read the "liberty" guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment to guarantee a fairly broad right of privacy that has come to encompass decisions about child rearing, procreation, marriage, and termination of ...
You may terminate a pregnancy on your own in New Jersey. Although in many states abortion is now nearly completely banned or severely restricted, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022) did not ban or limit the right to abortion in New Jersey.
The Majority of States Have At Least One Restriction on Health Insurance Coverage for Abortion Services. Note: As of November 6, 2024, 13 states have banned abortion (Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia).
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
As an effect of the unanimity of the states in holding unborn children to be persons under criminal, tort, and property law, the text of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment compels federal protection of unborn persons.
The California Supreme Court has recognized a right to abortion and voters explicitly enshrined abortion protections in the state Constitution in 2022. State law protects abortion and shields patients and providers from laws in other states. Voters enshrined abortion protections in the state Constitution in 2024.
California only limits abortions after the point of viability, which is when a physician determines based on a good-faith medical judgment that there is a reasonable likelihood the fetus can survive outside the uterus without extraordinary medical measures.
New Jersey has strong, independent legal protections over the right of reproductive autonomy, including abortion. Both state statute – including the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act, enacted in January 2022 – and the New Jersey Constitution protect the right to abortion.