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Abortion was illegal in North Dakota from 2022 to 2024, until Judge Bruce Romanick ruled that the state's abortion ban violated the Constitution of North Dakota's equality provisions. [ 160 ] [ 161 ] The law technically made exceptions to save the life of the pregnant woman, or, until 6 weeks into a pregnancy, in cases of rape or incest.
This color-coded map illustrates the current legal status of elective-specific abortion procedures in each of the individual states, U.S. territories, and federal district. [a] A colored border indicates a more stringent restriction or ban that is blocked by legal injunction.
The Guttmacher Institute has created an interactive map showing how far people may have to travel for an abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court significantly weakens or overturns landmark abortion ...
In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state very hostile to abortion rights, the abortion rate by state of occurrence dropped from 4 in 1000 women aged 15–44 for 2017 to 0.1 for 2020, because 57% of abortion recipients went out of state in 2017, while 99% did so in 2020. [319]
Seven of the 10 states that sought to enshrine reproductive freedoms in the 2024 elections prevailed, and in some cases, the new constitutional amendments will overrule existing abortion bans
Currently, abortion is illegal in 12 states, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, and 29 states have some sort of abortion limitation based on gestational age. Nine states have no ...
In Nebraska, the state’s Supreme Court has approved two competing ballot measures: one that would enshrine the current 12-week ban into the constitution, and another that would increase the ...
This 2014 map shows 60-mile access to abortion providers in Texas. An abortion clinic is a medical facility that provides abortions. Abortion clinics may be private or public medical practices or nonprofit organizations. In 27 major cities, and much of rural America, most people live 100 miles or more from an abortion clinic. [2]