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Tracking where abortion laws stand in every state Abortion rights across the US: we track where laws stand in every state
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Abortion is now banned in 14 states and severely restricted in five others Abortion is now nearly completely banned in 14 states, while two have banned abortion past roughly six weeks of pregnancy
The US supreme court ruled in June 2022 that abortion is not protected under the constitution, which means states now have the power to regulate the procedure as they see fit. Banned at conception or after 6 weeks
Since the ruling, abortion bans invalidated by Roe v Wade in some states were resurrected. Elsewhere, “trigger laws”, designed to ban abortion if federal protections were overturned, went into effect. In other states, new bans were passed. Banned after 12-13 weeks
A year after the Dobbs decision, abortion is banned in 14 states and severely restricted in five others, creating a patchwork of vasty unequal access to reproductive care. The map below shows where state abortion laws stand as of 13 June 2023. Banned after 15-18 weeks
The legal status of abortion Legal
The table below shows the current situation for abortion access in each state. In flux
Additional research by Aliya Uteuova The US supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade may have abolished the national right to abortion, but the state-by-state battle for abortion rights is far from over.
This story will be updated as more abortion restrictions take effect Since Roe was overturned in 2022, 14 states have enacted near-total abortion bans, while two states – Georgia and South Carolina – have banned abortion past roughly six weeks of pregnancy. Other states have enacted laws or held ballot referendums to protect abortion rights.
Additional research by Aliya Uteuova In flux
This story will be updated as more abortion restrictions take effect Ban blocked
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In a handful of other states, the future of abortion is in flux. The Florida state supreme court, for example, may soon give the green light to yet another six-week abortion ban.
All of this tumult has led to a deeply uneven abortion landscape, with access to abortion clinics cut off across much of the south and midwest but standing strong on both coasts. The map below shows where state abortion laws stand as of 9 November 2023.
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Sources: Abortion laws come from Center for Reproductive Rights, AbortionFinder and state statutes.Note: Women of reproductive age data is women aged 15-49 from the 2020 US census. Although people who are not women and outside of these age ranges can get pregnant, this demographic is an approximation of the number of people effected.
Additional research and fact checking by Ava Sasani.