Here's What Overturning Roe Means For Abortion Access Across The U.S.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Before today, abortion was protected under the U.S. Constitution, which meant that state lawmakers couldn't just ban the procedure if they wanted to.
46% : And the outcome of the midterm elections could affect whether abortion stays legal in other states, too.
43% : After that, you have the states with old, old bans on abortion - some from more than 100 years ago.
42% : A couple more states don't have trigger bans, but they could take steps to ban abortion pretty quickly.
39% : And Georgia, Ohio, South Carolina and Iowa have all passed bans on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
39% : Arizona's governor has said that he thinks the state's considerably more recent ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy should preempt the older ban.
35% : Which means that abortion is illegal in those states right now.
34% : The bottom line, though, is that abortion could be either banned entirely or heavily restricted in at least 20 states by the end of the summer.
32% : That means abortion could be illegal in these states within a matter of days, or even hours.
31% : Well, according to the Guttmacher Institute, three states -- South Dakota, Kentucky and Louisiana -- have laws saying that abortion is banned the instant Roe is reversed.
29% : As of 1:30 p.m. on Friday, June 24, two other states -- Missouri and Oklahoma -- have also triggered their bans, so abortion is illegal there too.
23% : Now states have free rein to ban abortion, to restrict abortion and to regulate abortion.
22% : Now they have free rein to ban abortion, to restrict abortion and to regulate abortion.

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