Nine US states have already implemented laws banning free abortion, in whole or in part.
On Friday came the expected news that U.S. Supreme Court removes the federal right to abortion, thus setting aside Roe vs. The Wade ruling from 1973.
The decision has led to both cheers and tears. Former President Donald Trump, who appointed three of the Conservative judges to the Supreme Court, praises the decision. President Joe Biden, for his part, believes the decision puts women’s health and rights at risk.
The states are now free to introduce their own laws. Several have also already prepared for this.
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In the state of Mississippi, the expected ban has not yet come into force. On Saturday, women flocked to the only remaining abortion clinic in the state, Pink House, in the city of Jackson.
Sky News writes that the parking lot outside the clinic on Saturday was an “intense place to be”.
The cars that arrived at the clinic were met by abortion opponents, who shouted that “the children should not be killed”.
Women activists had also turned up.
– Women are going to die. I’m not saying this just to be dramatic. “It’s really scary,” Pattie D’Arcy told Sky News.
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7.2 million hit already
A total of 26 states, more than half of the United States’ 50 states, already have legislation indicating that they intend to ban abortion in whole or in part.
As early as Saturday, the abortion ban was a fact in nine states. It affects a total of 7.2 million women of reproductive age, shows an overview made of New York Times.
Three of these states, Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota, had so-called “trigger laws” in place. These laws came into force automatically after the recent Supreme Court ruling.
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Another ten with trigger laws
Ten other states have similar trigger laws lying around, writes CNN. Here, the laws will be introduced after a certain time, or by local authorities taking official steps to introduce them.
This includes states such as Arkansas, Mississippi, Idaho, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming and Missouri.
Three of these states, Utah, Arkansas and Oklahoma, have already taken the necessary steps to enforce the laws, and on Saturday abortion was banned here as well.
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“Sleeping” abortion ban
In Texas, the trigger law will be introduced 30 days after the Supreme Court decision.
In addition, a number of states have had “dormant” abortion bans, laws that were never removed after the 1973 decision. These laws have thus not been enforced in the last five decades, but this may now change.
These states include Michigan, Wisconsin and West Virginia.
Wisconsin has now enacted this legislation, according to the New York Times.
Other states have already introduced restrictive abortion laws, which prohibit abortion after a certain number of weeks. These are states like Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Ohio and South Carolina.
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Large demonstrations
On Friday and Saturday, there have been large demonstrations in several cities, and outside the US Supreme Court in Washington DC
Several polls also indicate that the court’s decision is out of step with public opinion.
Surveys regularly carried out by the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research for the news agency AP show that only one in ten respondents wants a ban on abortion. The majority want abortion to be legal in most circumstances, although many believe that there should be restrictions on when late abortions can be performed.
In 2020, more than 930,000 abortions were performed in the United States. This corresponds to 14.4 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age, which is on a par with other industrialized countries. Over the past 30 years, abortion rates in the United States have steadily declined, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
Almost half of the women who want to have an abortion in the United States live below the poverty line. Black and Latin American women are overrepresented as a proportion of the population – by 29 and 25 percent, respectively.
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