{"id":293338,"date":"2023-06-23T06:34:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T11:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=293338"},"modified":"2023-06-22T16:51:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T21:51:28","slug":"abortion-post-roe-completely-banned-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-post-roe-completely-banned-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion group claims abortion is ‘completely banned’ in these states"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Preborn children are now mostly protected from abortion in more than a dozen states, according to a recently released report from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The group listed that 13 states<\/strong> currently protect the preborn in law \u2014 Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. These are states where “[a]bortion is completely banned with very limited exceptions.” Notably, they added that Idaho, Missouri, and Tennessee each require an “‘affirmative defense,’ meaning a provider has to prove in court that an abortion met the criteria for a legal exception.”<\/p>\n

In addition, “as of June 20” abortion is also<\/em> “unavailable in Wisconsin<\/a>” because of ongoing legal uncertainty, two Guttmacher Institute executives wrote in Philanthropy.com<\/a>, and “[a] six-week abortion ban is now in effect in Georgia<\/a>, and\u00a0Florida<\/a>\u00a0is expected to soon follow suit. Last month,\u00a0Nebraska<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0North Carolina<\/a> approved 12-week bans.” In reality, because the vast majority of abortions take place in the first trimester<\/em>, a 12-week “ban” isn’t actually much of a ban at all.<\/p>\n

The Guttmacher<\/a> report also claims that nearly 700 legislative bills both for or against abortion have been introduced so far this year, “about half of which would expand access and about half would restrict access.” The news comes as the nation marks the one-year anniversary (June 24, 2022) of the overturning of Roe v. Wade<\/em> in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n

“Every state in the country has taken action on abortion in some way,” Planned Parenthood’s political arm claimed<\/a>, citing 360 pro-life bills being filed thus far in 2023 and more than 350 pro-abortion bills filed this year in 48 states. This is “more than double the amount we saw at this time last year,” Planned Parenthood Action Fund wrote.<\/p>\n

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One year since #Roe<\/a> was overturned:<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udce2 Abortion banned in 13 states<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udce2 Tens of thousands of people denied abortions <\/p>\n

\ud83d\udce2 More than 16.5 million people have no access to care in their state <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how state policies from the past year have impacted abortion rights & access \u2b07\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/cFaiepAIFY<\/a><\/p>\n

— Guttmacher Institute (@Guttmacher) June 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n