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In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, opening the door for states to ban abortion outright. Currently, abortion is illegal in 13 states. “After Roe Fell: Abortion Laws by State” examines laws, constitutions, and court decisions on abortion—and assigns each state, territory, and the District of Columbia to one of ...
Oct 7, 2024 · Nearly two dozen US states have banned or severely restricted access to abortion. View CNN’s abortion law map to see where abortions are legal, banned, or in limbo.
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.
- This Has Been A Long Time Coming
- It’S Already Hard For Many People to Get Abortions in The Us
- There Are Nowhere Near Enough Abortion Clinics in The Us
- Some States Have Effectively Banned All Abortions
- But It’S Not Just Outright Bans We’Re Worried About
- These New Laws Will Cause Deaths and Injuries
- These Laws Are Discriminatory
- Trump’s Anti-Abortion Agenda Doesn’T Just Affect People in The Us
- 73% of Americans Want Abortion to Remain Safe and Legal
- The Fight Is Not Over!
In 1973 the US Supreme Court ruled that abortion was legal in the landmark case Roe v. Wade. Anti-choice activists and politicians have been working to overturn this decision ever since, and we’re now seeing the fruits of that labour. The attacks on Roe also ramped up when President Trump appointed two new judges to the Supreme Court, both of whom ...
Take Alabama as an example. In May, Alabama’s governor signed into law a draconian billthat could punish doctors who perform abortions with life in prison. But in practice abortion is already inaccessible for many people in Alabama. The Guttmatcher Institute found thatin 2014, 93% of Alabama counties had no clinics that provided abortions. This mea...
There are six states in the US which have only one clinic providing abortion. Twenty-sevenmajor US cities and much of rural America qualify as abortion “deserts”, where most people live more than 100 miles away from an abortion provider. One way that anti-choice activists force essential services out of existence is through targeted regulation of a...
Alabama’s new law bans all abortionfrom the time a “woman [is] known to be pregnant” – with no exceptions. This is the harshest law yet. Five states– Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana – have passed bills which prohibit abortion after about six weeks – before many people even realize they are pregnant.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, 42 abortion restrictions were enacted between 1 January and 15 May 2019 alone. This includes measures like prohibiting certain common types of procedure and requiring parental consent for teenagers who need abortions.
Anti-abortion laws do not stopor reduce abortions, but they do make them dangerous. When carried out with the assistance of a trained health-care provider in sanitary conditions, abortions are one of the safest medical procedures available. But when abortions are restricted or criminalized, people are forced to seek unsafe ways to end pregnancies. ...
People with low incomes – teenagers, people of colour, migrants and refugees – are hardest hit by abortion restrictions because it is more difficult for them to pay, travel or take time off work. African-American women are three or four timesmore likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than white women in the US, and this shameful inequality will ...
In 2017 President Trump reinstated and expanded a policy called the “global gag rule”. This rule states that any overseas organization which receives US global health funding cannot even mentionabortion as part of their counselling or education programs—even if the money for these particular programs does not come from the US. Even if providers thi...
The lawmakers putting these extreme restrictions on abortion access do not represent the views of most Americans. An independent pollreleased in January 2019 found that two-thirds of Americans think abortion should be legal in “all” or “most” cases, and 73% are opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade
None of the abortion bans passed this year has yet taken effect, and abortion is still legal in all 50 states (as of 11 June 2019). The American Civil Liberties Union, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and others have vowed to fight back and lawsuits have already been filed in several states. On 31 May Planned Parenthood won a court order to keep ...
Campaigners like Planned Parenthood say 29 states out of 50 have a majority of anti-abortion lawmakers in their legislatures and are actively enforcing ways to limit access to the procedure.
Jun 24, 2022 · Millions of women in the US will lose the constitutional right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision. The judgement paves the way for individual ...
Mar 7, 2024 · The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion for almost fifty years. How does regulation of abortion in the United States compare to...
