that, religious non-profits like little sisters of the poor were fined if they did not comply. on october 6, 2017, health & human services issued a new rule with an updated religious exemption that protected religious non-profits. but federal judge wendy beetlestone issued an injunction temporarily stopping the enforcement of that exemption. as well, following the new rule announcement, the state of pennsylvania sued the federal government to take away the exemption. pennsylvania asked a judge to order that the little sisters of the poor must comply with the federal mandate or pay tens of millions of dollars in fines. the state alleged that the religious organization violated the constitution, federal anti-discrimination law, and the administrative procedure act (apa). on july 8, 2020, in little sisters of the poor v. pennsylvania, the u.s. supreme court ruled against that and in favor of little sisters of the poor. 2020 – poland's constitutional court ruled that abortion due to fetal defects was unconstitutional. 2020 – louisiana voters passed a measure to amend the state constitution to omit any language implying that a woman has a right to get an abortion or that any abortion that does occur should be funded. 2020 – tennessee banned abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of down syndrome or because of the gender or race of the fetus. 2020 – in argentina, abortion was legalized up to fourteen weeks of pregnancy on 30 december 2020. 2020 – a bill was signed into law in ohio requiring all aborted fetal tissue to be cremated or buried. 2021 2021 – in january 2021, new jersey governor phil murphy signed the freedom of reproductive choice act into law, preserving the legal right to obtain an abortion, fulfilling a reelection campaign promise. 2021 – a law went into effect in indiana mandating an ultrasound 18 hours or more before an abortion is performed. 2021 – the supreme court of the united states reinstated federal rules mandating anyone having a medication abortion to acquire the pills for it from a medical provider in person. 2021 – president biden rescinded the mexico city policy. 2021 – honduras added its abortion ban to its constitution, and set the number of votes required in order to change it at three-quarters of congress. 2021 – in 2021 the city of lebanon, ohio, passed an ordinance whereby abortion at all stages of pregnancy was outlawed. 2021 – mason, ohio banned abortion at all stages in 2021, but its ordinance doing so was repealed later that year. 2021 – in february 2021, south carolina passed a law which would outlaw almost all abortions in that state after a fetal heartbeat is detected; however, that law was blocked by a judge in march 2021. 2021 – in fall 2021, the illinois general assembly passed a bill to repeal the parental notice of abortion act. governor pritzker signed it into law on december 17, 2021. 2021 – south dakota governor kristi noem signed an executive order requiring in-person medical visits—not merely telehealth appointments—for the prescription of medication abortions. 2022 2022 – on 1 january 2022, a bill passed that required patients receiving abortion care at a health center in new hampshire to have an ultrasound. 2022 – in february 2022, colombia's highest court decriminalizes abortion in the first 24 weeks of the pregnancy. 2022 – in april 2022, colorado passed the reproductive health equity act, which guarantees access to reproductive care and affirms the rights of pregnant women to continue or terminate a pregnancy. the act prohibits public entities from restricting or denying those rights. 2022 – on april 14, 2022, house bill 3 was passed in kentucky; it banned all abortions in the state after 15 weeks post-conception and introduced a number of regulations and restrictions, including a prohibition on mailing abortion pills, new systems to certify, monitor and publicly name physicians who conduct abortion procedures, "dignified care for the terminated remains of pregnancy loss," and mandatory disclosure of patient information. as the infrastructure was not in place for these new requirements, the two abortion clinics operating in kentucky had to shut down, making abortion de facto illegal in the state. in response, abortion-rights activists sued the state to challenge the law, with planned parenthood and the aclu stating that the law unconstitutionally bans abortion by introducing requirements that can't be followed or are too arduous to comply with and that it violates patient privacy protections; this led to the law being blocked in federal court later in 2022. 2022 – on june 17, 2022, the iowa supreme court ruled that the state constitution does not protect the right to an abortion. justice edward mansfield wrote in the majority that "all we hold today is that the iowa constitution is not the source of a fundamental right to an abortion necessitating a strict scrutiny standard of review for regulations affecting that right". the court's decision is a reversal of its 2018 ruling, where it found that the constitution protects the right to an abortion. 2022 – dobbs v. jackson women's health organization, no. 19-1392, 597 u.s. ___ (2022), is a decision of the united states supreme court, in which the court held that the constitution of the united states does not confer any right to abortion, thus overruling both roe v. wade (1973) and planned parenthood v. casey (1992). 2022 – the 2019 trigger law in kentucky took effect after the ruling for dobbs v. jackson women's health organization was delivered, which overturned roe v. wade. it made all abortions illegal in kentucky except when medically mandatory to prevent the patient from dying or getting a "life-sustaining organ" permanently impaired. both clinics in the state temporarily stopped providing abortions. 2022 – jefferson county circuit judge mitch perry issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of kentucky's abortion-banning trigger law pending further hearings to determine if the ban violates the kentucky constitution. this order temporarily allows both of kentucky's elective abortion providers, which are both located in louisville, to temporarily resume elective abortions. 2022 – president joe biden signed executive order 14076, which directs the department of health and human services to expand access to contraceptives, requests the federal trade commission protect patients' reproductive health privacy, and directs the department of justice to organize a group of pro bono lawyers to defend women charged with having an abortion. 2022 – the biden administration issued guidance stating that due to federal law, pharmacies are not allowed to turn away people who have a prescription for a drug that might end a pregnancy. 2022 – new regulations went into effect in israel stating that those seeking abortions could send their requests online and would no longer be asked about their use of birth control. as well, under the new regulations they no longer have to meet with a social worker and may obtain a medication abortion (if medically possible) under the oversight of a community health clinic, rather than having to go to hospitals to receive the medication as they did previously. 2022 – in 2022, a legislative committee passed to the house floor in louisiana a proposed law that would have potentially criminalized abortion seekers, as well as abortion providers, which was met with vehement opposition by both pro- and anti-abortion advocates and ultimately amended by the full house to remove criminal sanctions for abortion seekers, passed into law and signed by governor john bel edwards (d). 2022 – the abortion care access act was enacted in maryland; it allows a broader range of healthcare workers — nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician assistants - to perform abortions and allocates $3.5 million to a new program within the maryland department of health to train healthcare workers. additionally, it requires the majority of health insurance plans, including private health insurance plans, to cover abortions cost free. 2022 – oklahoma's abortion ban took effect on may 25, 2022, when governor kevin stitt signed hb 4327 into law, and abortion providers ceased offering services in oklahoma as of that date. hb 4327 is modeled after the texas heartbeat act and is enforced solely through civil lawsuits brought by private citizens, making it exceedingly difficult for abortion providers to challenge the constitutionality of the statute in court. oklahoma thus became the first state to ban abortion from the moment of fertilization since roe v. wade. 2022 - wisconsin banned abortion immediately after the 2022 supreme court decision dobbs v. jackson women's health organization overturning roe v wade, per a state law that automatically caused abortion to be banned if roe v wade was repealed. 2022 – on 24 june 2022, following the united states supreme court's ruling in dobbs v. jackson women's health organization, missouri attorney general eric schmitt signed a proclamation bringing into effect the state's "trigger law", banning all non-medically necessary abortions. 2022 – according to hb136, which is effective utah state law from june 28, 2022, abortions are banned following 18 weeks of gestation. 2022 – a law outlawing abortion in mississippi took effect on july 7, 2022, after mississippi state attorney general lynn fitch on june 27 of that year certified the june 24, 2022 supreme court decision on dobbs v. jackson women's health organization. 2022 – due to the trigger law prohibiting abortion from the point of fertilization which was adopted on april 22, 2019, abortion became illegal from the point of conception in tennessee on july 25, 2022, 30 days after the overturning of roe v. wade. 2022 – wyoming's legislature passed hb92 in the 2022 legislative session, a trigger law meant to ban abortion soon after the overturn of roe v. wade except for cases of rape, incest (reported to law enforcement) and serious risk of death or "substantial and irreversible physical impairments" for the pregnant woman. however, this law was blocked by 9th district court judge melissa owens the day it took effect (july 27, 2022). 2022 – abortion in north dakota has been mostly illegal since july 28, 2022 when the state's trigger law, following the united states' supreme court ruling to overturn roe v. wade on june 24, 2022, went into effect. the trigger law bans all abortions except to save the life of the mother or in the case of rape or incest, reported to law enforcement. 2022 – a three-judge bench of the supreme court of india in civil appeal no. 5802 of 2022 made a ruling on 29 september 2022. the ruling defined "woman" as all persons who require access to safe abortion, along with cisgender women, thus including transpersons and other gender-diverse persons as well as cisgender women. the court remarked that medical practitioners should refrain from imposing extra-legal conditions on those seeking abortion, such as obtaining the consent of the abortion seeker's family, producing documentary proofs, or judicial authorization, and that only the abortion seeker's consent was material, unless she was a minor or mentally ill. it also stated that "every pregnant woman has the intrinsic right to choose to undergo or not to undergo abortion without any consent or authorization from a third party" and that a woman is the only and "ultimate decision-maker on the question of whether she wants to undergo an abortion." on the topic of the difference between the gestation period considered legal for married and unmarried women—24 weeks for the former and 20 weeks for the latter—the court ruled that the distinction was discriminatory, artificial, unsustainable and in violation of article 14 of the constitution of india, and that "all women are entitled to the benefit of safe and legal abortion." on the subject of pregnancies resulting from marital rape, the court ruled that women can seek an abortion in the term of 20 to 24 weeks under the ambit of "survivors of sexual assault or rape". 2022 - in the city of hobbs, new mexico, a local ordinance was passed in november 2022 to prevent abortion clinics from operating.