One Year After Dobbs, Abortion Care Has Become A Patchwork Of Confusing And Extreme State Laws That Deepen Existing Inequalities

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Other states, such as Massachusetts, Vermont, New York and Oregon, have enacted state-level protections for abortion.
43% : Approximately 50% of OB-GYN residency programs are located in states with restricted or highly restricted access to abortion.
43% : This will logically result in not only fewer health care providers being trained to perform gynecologic procedures for abortion, but also other conditions such as miscarriage, fetal death and nonviable pregnancies.
43% : In states with the most restrictions on abortion, whether a woman meets the criteria for an exemption to save the life of the mother may be decided by a hospital committee.
42% : In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson ruling struck down the constitutional right to abortion, society has been seeing the results of a post-Roe world.
42% : The Dobbs v. Jackson ruling returned decisions regarding abortion to individual states.
42% : This has led to a patchwork of laws that span the entire range from complete bans and tight restrictions to full state protection for abortion.
40% : Currently, there are 14 states with abortion bans that contain no exception for rape or incest or require that the sexual assault be reported to law enforcement to qualify for exception.
39% : Being denied access to abortion is associated with increased anxiety and fewer future plans for the next year.
39% : Restricting legal abortion increases the risk that women will seek out pregnancy termination from unskilled people in unsafe settings.
39% : Violence from an intimate partner is a leading reason for abortion.
37% : Now that the constitutional right to abortion has been eliminated, more women will inevitably die or become seriously ill due to lack of safe access to abortion services.
34% : In some states, such as Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, abortion is banned beginning at six weeks gestational age, when very few women even know they are pregnant.
34% : The unequal access to abortion procedures across the country is most directly affecting the poorest women in the U.S.Currently, 12 states restrict abortion coverage by private insurance, and more than 30 states prohibit public Medicaid payment for abortion.
24% : Prior to 1973, when Roe v. Wade established constitutional protection for abortion in the U.S., women often resorted to unsafe methods to induce abortion that resulted in a high death toll.

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