Scores of abortion clinics have stopped providing abortions since Roe v Wade was overturned this summer.
But sadly these clinics that stopped are only in 15 states.
Here’s more via Politico:
In the 100 days since Roe v. Wade was overturned, 66 clinics in more than a dozen states have stopped providing abortions, according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights advocacy and research group.
Of those 66 clinics, 40 still offer non-abortion services while 26 have shut their doors, the analysis found. Among them is Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Mississippi — the abortion clinic at the center of the Supreme Court case decided in June that dismantled Roe — which closed in early July with plans to move to New Mexico.
As of Wednesday, abortions are almost entirely unavailable in 14 states — Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. And access is significantly limited in a 15th state, Georgia, where the procedure is allowed until the detection of fetal cardiac activity, which usually happens around six weeks of pregnancy.
Here’s a map by the Guttmacher Institute that shows which states have banned the practice:
15 states is certainly significant, but I was really hoping for more after the fall of Roe v Wade.
Even so, this means that well over a hundred thousand abortions are no longer possible in these states which is truly fantastic news.
The 14 states were responsible for 125,780 abortions in 2020, according to Guttmacher’s analysis. And 41,620 abortions were performed in Georgia the same year.
While we’ve still got our work cut out for us on getting abortion banned in these other states, it’s great news that this many children will now have a chance at life in these 15 states.