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40 Days for Life, an anti-abortion activist group, named for the pattern of several biblical events lasting 40 days. [4] Abolitionists Rising (formerly Free The States), a national, Protestant anti-abortion organization based in Oklahoma that advocates for the total abolition of abortion. [5]
The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
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. [ 158 ] [ 159 ] 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.
Nearly two dozen US states have banned or severely restricted access to abortion. View CNN’s abortion law map to see where abortions are legal, banned, or in limbo.
By December 2023, telehealth accounted for 19% of all abortions in the US. [13] Telehealth accounted for 20% of all abortion care in the first three months of 2024. [14] From October through December 2023, nearly 8,000 people per month in anti-abortion states were getting abortion medication from clinicians operating in states with shield laws ...
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] Regulations for abortions in the United States include state licensing requirements, federal workplace safety requirements, and association ...
And most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy will be banned in North Carolina beginning July 1 after the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature successfully overrode the Democratic governor ...
[273] [274] In May 2021, Lubbock, Texas, with a population of less than 270,000, voted to ban abortion with the "sanctuary city for the unborn ordinance", becoming the largest city in the U.S. to ban abortion. [275] [276] [277] Abortion rights movements have also pushed for similar counterpart legislation in other cities. [278]