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View CNN’s abortion law map to see where abortions are legal, banned, or in limbo. Nearly two dozen US states have banned or severely restricted access to abortion.
Two years after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, access to abortion varies according to where you live.
Abortion is currently illegal or heavily restricted in at least 16 states following the Supreme Court's historic decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade. That includes states with near-total...
Abortion was legal throughout the U.S. for 49 years thanks to Roe v. Wade — but now that Roe was overturned, abortion access and laws vary by state. View the map below to see the current state of abortion across the country and in your state.
As of January 2023, abortion has been banned in 14 States across the country, and the consequences of the Supreme Court decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organisation has reverberated throughout the entire legal and policy system, the experts said.
Where Is Abortion Illegal. Currently, abortion is almost completely illegal in 12 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and South Carolina enforce bans after fetal cardiac ...
Restrictive abortion regulation can cause distress and stigma, and risk constituting a violation of human rights of women and girls, including the right to privacy and the right to non-discrimination and equality, while also imposing financial burdens on women and girls.
Currently, abortion is illegal in 13 states. “After Roe Fell: Abortion Laws by State” examines laws, constitutions, and court decisions on abortion—and assigns each state, territory, and the District of Columbia to one of five categories: Expanded Access, Protected, Not Protected, Hostile, and Illegal. Click through this tool to learn ...
In a Center survey conducted nearly a year after the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision that ended the constitutional right to abortion, 62% of U.S. adults said the practice should be legal in all or most cases, while 36% said it should be illegal in all or most cases.
Abortion is broadly legal in the rest of the country and several states have added new protections since Dobbs. Many states limit abortion around fetal “viability,” the point at which a fetus...