Question

More states have, “… embraced laws requiring waiting periods for abortion…” however this is unfair to the women going through this.

Would I capitlize the however or leave this sentence how it is

Answer 1

What punctuation is right after the word immediately preceding "however"?

Answer 2

I worded the sentence to how I thought it should look like. So I'm guessing it's wrong?
Do I put a comma before the h?

Answer 3

Here's how I would write it (and I take it the quotation marks mean you quoted that from somewhere and will correctly cite it, right?):

<i>More states have "embraced laws requiring waiting periods for abortion;" however, this is unfair to the women going through this. </i>

Be sure it's crystal clear what the antecedent for "this" is (the last word in that sentence.