- Banned at conception or after 6 weeks
- Banned after 12-13 weeks
- Banned after 15-18 weeks
The US supreme court docket’s resolution to overturn Roe v Wade might have abolished the nationwide proper to abortion, however the state-by-state battle for abortion rights is way from over.
Since Roe was overturned in 2022, 14 states have enacted near-total abortion bans, whereas 4 states – Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and Iowa – 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 as a result of authorized challenges. In September 2024, for instance, a North Dakota decide struck down the state’s ban, ruling that it was too obscure and that the state structure granted ladies “a elementary proper to decide on abortion earlier than viability exists”. Nonetheless, the decide didn’t formally enjoin the ban and North Dakota is anticipated to enchantment his resolution.
A number of states are additionally more likely to maintain poll measures on abortion rights throughout the November elections, together with key battleground states like Arizona and Nevada.
All of this tumult has led to a deeply uneven abortion panorama, with entry to abortion clinics minimize off throughout a lot of the south and midwest however standing sturdy on each coasts. The map beneath exhibits the place state abortion legal guidelines stand as of 12 September 2024.
Sources: Abortion legal guidelines come from Middle for Reproductive Rights, AbortionFinder and state statutes.
Be aware: Girls of reproductive age knowledge contains 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 affected.
Extra analysis and reality checking by Ava Sasani.
This tracker, first revealed on 28 June 2022 and created by Jessica Glenza with reporting by Poppy Noor, is being frequently up to date to make sure that it displays the present state of affairs as greatest as potential. The latest replace can have been made on the date proven on the prime of the article. Any important corrections made to this or earlier variations will proceed to be footnoted beneath in keeping with Guardian editorial coverage.
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