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1 day ago · The landscape of abortion rights is in flux with each new election cycle, state legislative session, and round of court cases. Use the interactive map below to learn about abortion rights in your state.
If abortion is not protected by state or territory law (“Not Protected”), we then looked to see if the government enacted laws or policies to restrict or prohibit access to abortion care (“Hostile”). Finally, we examined states that have criminalized abortion and prohibited it entirely (“Illegal”).
Oct 9, 2024 · Across the U.S. in 2021, state legislatures enacted the most-ever abortion restrictions, and more followed in 2022. These restrictions run the gamut from outright abortion bans to laws that prohibit abortions based on a pregnant person’s reason for wanting to end a pregnancy.
State courts that have recognized abortion rights have sometimes ultimately upheld restrictions, and conversely, some courts have blocked restrictions even without finding a right to abortion. Use the map to learn more about the status of state constitutional protections in each state.
From 1973 to 2022, Supreme Court rulings in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) created, and maintained, federal protections for a pregnant woman's right to get an abortion, ensuring that states could not ban abortion prior to the point at which a fetus may be deemed viable.
Mar 6, 2023 · So some state supreme courts might decide that abortion is protected (or prohibited) by the state’s constitution, and some state legislatures might pass legislation criminalizing or protecting abortion.
These questions and many more arguments have been kept alive and will be tested in other laws drafted by other states. The Supreme Court indeed has four different state laws all about...
