![]() While some states are attempting to restrict bodily autonomy and eliminate abortion rights entirely, others are working to protect and expand them. 5 Abortion rights are by no means secure throughout the United States. Jackson Women’s Health Organization are part of the anti-abortion movement’s efforts to legislate and litigate abortion access out of existence. This onslaught of restrictive state laws and the upcoming arguments in Dobbs v. 8-be challenged in court, there remains the looming threat that the governing law might change and that certain abortion-restrictive statutes that historically would have been found unconstitutional could take effect. 4 Although some of the newly enacted state statutes described in this issue brief will-like Texas’ S.B. The restrictions that some states are enacting disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous, and Latino individuals people with low incomes LGBTQ people young people people with disabilities immigrants and people in rural areas, for whom legal and systemic barriers frequently already put abortion care out of reach. Landscape and implications of state abortion restrictionsĪbortion is essential health care, critical to health equity, reproductive autonomy, and racial, gender, and economic justice it also helps ensure that people can control their own bodies, lives, and futures. This issue brief breaks down the abortion bans and restrictions that state legislatures have passed this year, such as the most recent law in Texas, as well as highlights states that have protected and expanded abortion rights. Casey, which guarantee the right to abortion and prohibit states from barring it before the point of viability. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. ![]() 3 Both of these laws directly contradict Roe v. 8 effectively prohibits abortion after six weeks and creates a private right of action that allows “any person” to sue anyone who helps a person access abortion care, including abortion providers, abortion funds, family members, or friends. 2 And in September 2021, the Supreme Court allowed a Texas law, S.B. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case challenging Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. In May 2021, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear Dobbs v.
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