Abortion Bans Throughout the Nation: Monitoring Restrictions by State

By Shirley R.

July 2, 2024

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Ala. Alabama

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. Ark. Arkansas

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. Idaho Idaho

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, and the Idaho Supreme Courtroom dominated in 2023 that there isn’t any constitutional proper to an abortion within the state. A U.S. Supreme Courtroom ruling will permit entry to emergency abortions whereas decrease courts resolve if the state’s ban violates a federal legislation requiring emergency take care of any affected person. Ind. Indiana

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. In 2023, the Indiana Supreme Courtroom dominated that the state Structure doesn’t embrace a proper to abortion besides in dire conditions. A separate problem to the ban by residents who argue that it violates their spiritual rights is ongoing. Ky. Kentucky

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. In 2022, voters rejected a poll measure that might have amended the state Structure to say it didn’t comprise the correct to an abortion. La. Louisiana

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. Miss. Mississippi

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. Mo. Missouri

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. N.D. North Dakota

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. Okla. Oklahoma

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. S.D. South Dakota

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. Voters will resolve in November whether or not to enact a constitutional modification that prohibits regulation of abortion within the first trimester. Tenn. Tennessee

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. Texas Texas

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. Non-public residents can sue abortion suppliers and those that help sufferers who’re looking for an abortion after about six weeks of being pregnant. W.Va. West Virginia

Banned

— Abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances. Fla. Florida

Gestational restrict

6 weeks Abortion is banned after about six weeks of being pregnant. The Florida Supreme Courtroom dominated in 2024 that the state Structure’s privateness protections don’t lengthen to abortion. Voters will resolve in November whether or not to enshrine a proper to abortion within the state Structure. Ga. Georgia

Gestational restrict

6 weeks Abortion is banned after about six weeks of being pregnant. In 2023, the State Supreme Courtroom reversed a decrease court docket’s ruling that the ban was void. The decrease court docket should nonetheless weigh whether or not the ban violates the state’s Structure. S.C. South Carolina

Gestational restrict

6 weeks Abortion is banned after about six weeks of being pregnant. The South Carolina Supreme Courtroom upheld the ban in 2023, discovering that the state Structure’s privateness protections don’t lengthen to abortion. Neb. Nebraska

Gestational restrict

12 weeks Abortion is banned after 12 weeks of being pregnant. N.C. North Carolina

Gestational restrict

12 weeks Abortion is banned after 12 weeks of being pregnant. Ariz. Arizona

Gestational restrict

15 weeks Abortion is banned after 15 weeks of being pregnant. The legislature repealed a legislation from 1864 that might have positioned a near-total ban on abortions. Utah Utah

Gestational restrict

18 weeks Abortion is banned after 18 weeks of being pregnant. A choose has quickly blocked a legislation that might have halted most abortions by requiring the process to be carried out in hospitals. One other ban on most abortions was indefinitely blocked, and the State Supreme Courtroom is anticipated to rule on it in 2024. Iowa Iowa

Ban blocked

22 weeks The Iowa Supreme Courtroom dominated in June that the state’s six-week abortion ban can quickly be enforced whereas a lawsuit towards it proceeds. It’ll take at the very least 21 days for the case to return to the district court docket, throughout which era abortion will stay authorized. Mont. Montana

Ban blocked

Viability The Montana Supreme Courtroom has dominated that the state Structure protects the correct to an abortion. A ban on probably the most generally used process within the second trimester and a number of other different restrictions have been blocked by a court docket. Wyo. Wyoming

Ban blocked

Viability A choose has quickly blocked a ban on most abortions and one other legislation that explicitly bans the usage of abortion capsules. A separate ban on most abortions stays indefinitely blocked. Alaska Alaska

Authorized

No restrict The State Supreme Courtroom has acknowledged a proper to “reproductive alternative” underneath the state Structure. Kan. Kansas

Authorized

22 weeks The State Supreme Courtroom dominated in 2019 {that a} pregnant lady’s proper to private autonomy is protected within the state Structure, and in 2022, Kansans rejected a poll measure that might have eliminated the correct to abortion from the state Structure. N.H. New Hampshire

Authorized

24 weeks Abortion isn’t expressly protected by state legislation. Ohio Ohio

Authorized

22 weeks Voters enshrined abortion protections within the state Structure in 2023. Courts are nonetheless deciding how the modification impacts current abortion restrictions, resembling ready durations and consent necessities. Va. Virginia

Authorized

Viability Abortion isn’t expressly protected by state legislation. Wis. Wisconsin

Authorized

22 weeks In late 2023, a Wisconsin choose dominated that an 1849 legislation broadly interpreted as a ban didn’t apply to abortion. The case might come earlier than the State Supreme Courtroom, which has a liberal majority. D.C. Washington, D.C.