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One-third of American women have lost abortion rights since Roe v. Wade overturned

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One-third of American women have lost abortion rights since Roe v. Wade overturned

Nearly a third of American women, around 21 million, lost access to abortion immediately after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. This week, trigger laws in five states have deprived even more of the right as trigger laws in states like Idaho and Texas went into effect. Thirty-six percent of American women will lose abortion rights should courts lift injunctions blocking anti-abortion legislation in other states.

On Thursday, legislation outlawing most abortions went into effect in Texas, Idaho and Tennessee. A stipulation in Idaho’s law, which would have made it illegal for doctors to perform abortions to preserve the mother’s health, was blocked by a federal judge. In Texas, abortion providers now face felony charges and can be sentenced to life in prison.

A law in Indiana, which will take effect on September 15, bans abortion at any time except in some cases of rape or incest, fetal abnormalities incompatible with life, and to protect the life or health of the mother. North Dakota’s stringent anti-abortion legislation was blocked by a judge for a second time on Friday. Laws in Arizona, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Michigan, South Carolina, West Virginia and Iowa have been blocked.

If these laws are allowed to take effect, 23 million women will reside in states where abortion is either banned entirely or is banned after six weeks gestation. Gestational age is not calculated by the likely date of conception but is instead counted from the mother’s last menstrual period. Most women are at four weeks gestation before a missed period alerts them to possible pregnancy. 

Many states have not banned abortion outright, but instead have restricted it to the first six weeks of pregnancy or deny it after a fetal “heartbeat,” a non-scientific medical term, can be found.

Clinics, abortion rights advocates, and expectant mothers have worked feverishly over the past two months to halt the progression of anti-abortion laws or to beat pending legislation. Hours after Roe v. Wade was overturned, workers at one Choices clinic feverishly began calling patients with scheduled abortions, urging them to “get here now.”

Many women have traveled from states where abortion was banned, sometimes driving hours to the nearest clinic only to be turned away by providers wary of running afoul of swiftly changing and confusing laws.

Caitlin Gustafson, a family physician and abortion provider in Idaho, filed suit against the state over three separate abortion laws after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Center decision was announced. “It’s a very confusing landscape,” Gustafson told the Washington Post.


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