- Banned at conception or after 6 weeks
- Banned after 12-13 weeks
- Banned after 15-18 weeks
The US supreme courtroom’s choice to overturn Roe v Wade might have abolished the nationwide proper to abortion, however the state-by-state battle for abortion rights is much from over.
Since Roe was overturned in 2022, 14 states have enacted near-total abortion bans, whereas two states – Georgia and South Carolina – have banned abortion previous roughly six weeks of being pregnant. Different states have enacted legal guidelines or held poll referendums to guard abortion rights.
In flux
In a handful of different states, the way forward for abortion is in flux. The Florida state supreme courtroom, for instance, might quickly give the inexperienced mild to yet one more six-week abortion ban.
All of this tumult has led to a deeply uneven abortion panorama, with entry to abortion clinics lower off throughout a lot of the south and midwest however standing sturdy on each coasts. The map beneath reveals the place state abortion legal guidelines stand as of 9 November 2023.
Sources: Abortion legal guidelines come from Heart for Reproductive Rights, AbortionFinder and state statutes.
Notice: Girls of reproductive age knowledge is ladies aged 15-49 from the 2020 US census. Though people who find themselves not ladies and outdoors of those age ranges can get pregnant, this demographic is an approximation of the variety of individuals effected.
Further analysis and reality checking by Ava Sasani.
