More than half of the US states are very likely to ban abortion if it The Supreme Court agrees to reverse the case’s decision ru vs. valleyaccording to an April analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, which is dedicated to advocating reproductive rights in the United States.
Withdrawing constitutional protections for abortion leaves the decision in states’ hands, and the institute says 26 states are “likely or almost certain” that Restrictions on abortion rights.
There are 13 states that even have laws providing for the automatic entry into force of a law banning abortion in the event of a reversal Raw vs. Wade In the Supreme Court, nine states will revert to their laws banning abortion prior to the 1973 Supreme Court decision. Three states (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Oklahoma) have both measures: both pre-1973 bans and legislation that prohibits it. Automatically after a decision of the Supreme Court.
Findings depend on the exact wording of the Supreme Court’s opinion, asserts The New York Timesnoting that access to legal abortion could end in many regions of the South and Midwest.
Who will be affected by this decision: Poor women, who are already mothers, in their twenties and many years, and who seek the procedure very early in pregnancy, the paper notes.
In California, where 7,000 women from other states in 2020 already went to family planning clinics for voluntary interventions during pregnancy, it is expected that, if the decision is implemented, it will also lead to an increase Intervention request. Although the right to abortion is legally protected, some states have imposed so many restrictions that “there is only a practical need to prohibit” the boycott, he told Washington Post Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute.
California is one of 16 states with policies specifically protecting the right to abortion, and it has already announced that it plans to vote to enshrine this right in the state constitution. More democratic-majority countries will be able to pass measures to protect abortion rights.
For Elizabeth Nash, the burden falls on people who are already disadvantaged, marginalized communities, ethnic minorities, people who have few resources or who suffer from poverty. He declared that “whoever has more resources and privileges will certainly be able to get the care they need,” because abortion is “just health care.”
