States that have banned abortion are Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, and Wisconsin. Up to 23 states could revoke the right to terminate a pregnancy. Another 17 have already said they will protect this right.
Nine States of the 50 that makeup United States They banned the pregnancy interruption this Friday once the decision of the High Council from nullify the protection of the right to abortion effective from 1973and it is expected that other states will soon be able to do so.
The nine states that have already banned abortion are: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, and Wisconsin.
All previously had a laws designed to ban abortion and that they came into effect as soon as the Supreme Court decision was made public.
The organisation Planned Parenthoodwhich has the largest network of reproductive health clinics in the United States, and the Guttmacher Institute devoted to reproductive rights research have warned that in total 23 states will soon ban abortion.
states of Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming They had already passed the so-called “spring laws” with the aim of entering into force immediately or a few days after the Supreme Court ruling.
In case of Idaho, Tennessee and TexasThe ban on termination of pregnancy will only take effect in 30 days.
Other states, such as Arizona, Georgia, Iowa and Michiganthey have prepared restrictions that could come into effect soon.
Only at the moment 16 states California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Rhode Island and Washington), just like him DC they have passed laws that strengthen the protection of the right to abortion. the governor of Pennsylvaniafor its part, has stated that women are “safe” in their state and that the termination of pregnancy services will be maintained despite the court decision.
It should be noted that Massachusetts and Vermont are governed by two Republican governors, Charlie Baker and Phil Scott, who have expressed their dismay with the Supreme Court decision and have defended the right to abortion in their states. Baker and Scott’s support for abortion rights is the exception among Republican governors.
Interviewed on Radio Euskadi, the spokesperson for Planned Parenthood, Alexandra Soto, has denounced that with the US Supreme Court decision, “clandestine abortions that endanger the health and life of the person” will proliferate. He described the decision as “devastating,” especially for the most vulnerable in society, such as “black, Latino and Indigenous communities, people with disabilities, people living in rural areas, youth, immigrants and those with financial difficulties.”
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