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Factbox-Abortion in America if Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

2022.05.03 19:11

Factbox-Abortion in America if Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
FILE PHOTO: A police officer watches pro-life and pro-choice supporters demonstrating to mark the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision in Washington, January 24, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young

(Reuters) – Here’s what getting an abortion in America could look like if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

The first restrictions would take effect in 13 states with so-called trigger laws https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/abortion-policy-absence-roe# to be enacted if the ruling was ever overturned. The states are Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights advocacy research group.

Some trigger laws ban abortions almost completely, while others would outlaw abortion after six weeks or 15 weeks.

How quickly those trigger laws would go into effect could vary. Some could be rapid.

For example, Arkansas’ trigger law takes effect as soon as the state attorney general certifies that Roe has been overturned, the Guttmacher Institute says.

In Texas, a near-total ban on abortion would go into effect 30 days after a Supreme Court decision.

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT?

The Guttmacher Institute estimates 26 out of 50 U.S. states https://states.guttmacher.org are certain or likely to ban abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned, leaving women in large swaths of the U.S. Southwest and Midwest without nearby access to the medical procedure.

Most states where abortion would still be legal are on the West Coast (California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington) or in the Northeast. Governor Gavin Newsom of California, the most populous state, on Monday proposed enshrining a right to abortion in the state’s constitution.

A handful of states in the Midwest and Southwest are expected to keep abortion legal such as Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota and New Mexico, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Under that scenario, a woman in Miami, Florida, might have to drive 11 hours, or more than 700 miles (1,100 kilometers), to reach North Carolina, where abortion is expected to remain legal.

Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey and Vermont have passed legislation this year seeking to protect or expand abortion access.

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