This is just an informative post to let us all know where things will stand, if and when Roe v Wade is overturned:
Here's where states stand, according to Guttmacher:
Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have laws that protect the right to abortion, according to Guttmacher.
Here are the states with protections:
Here's where states stand, according to Guttmacher:
- Alabama: Pre-Roe ban, near-total ban, state Constitution bars protection
- Arizona: Pre-Roe ban
- Arkansas: Pre-Roe ban, trigger ban, near-total ban
- Georgia: Six-week ban
- Idaho: Trigger ban, six-week ban
- Iowa: Six-week ban
- Kentucky: Trigger ban, six-week ban
- Louisiana: Trigger ban, near-total ban, six-week ban, state Constitution bars protection
- Michigan: Pre-Roe ban
- Mississippi: Pre-Roe ban, trigger ban, six-week ban
- Missouri: Trigger ban, eight-week ban
- North Dakota: Trigger ban, six-week ban
- Ohio: Six-week ban
- Oklahoma: Pre-Roe ban, trigger ban (effective November 1, 2021), near-total ban, six-week ban
- South Carolina: Six-week ban
- South Dakota: Trigger ban
- Tennessee: Trigger ban, six-week ban, state Constitution bars protection
- Texas: Pre-Roe ban, trigger ban, six-week ban
- Utah: Trigger ban, near-total ban
- West Virginia: Pre-Roe ban, state Constitution bars protection
- Wisconsin: Pre-Roe ban
- Wyoming: Trigger ban
States with protections on abortions
Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have laws that protect the right to abortion, according to Guttmacher.
Here are the states with protections:
- California: Prior to viability
- Colorado: Throughout pregnancy
- Connecticut: Prior to viability
- Delaware: Prior to viability
- District of Columbia: Throughout pregnancy
- Hawaii: Prior to viability
- Illinois: Prior to viability
- Maine: Prior to viability
- Maryland: Prior to viability
- Massachusetts: Prior to viability
- Nevada: Prior to viability
- New Jersey: Throughout pregnancy
- New York: Prior to viability
- Oregon: Throughout pregnancy
- Rhode Island: Prior to viability
- Vermont: Throughout pregnancy
- Washington: Prior to viability