Overturning Roe vs Wade has a great impact. Abortion bans were temporarily blocked in Texas, Louisiana and Utah, while a federal court in Tennessee and South Carolina said a law sharply restricting the procedure would take effect there immediately. It now seems that the battle over whether women may end pregnancies has shifted from the nation’s highest court to courthouses around the country.
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Restrictive abortion laws are in effect in at least six states after the court handed down its ruling: Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
- Trigger bans: The 13 states which have passed trigger bans are Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. The laws will leave women in large areas of the south and Midwest without nearby access to terminations. Other states expected to introduce bans or restrictions
- Roe v. Wade (1973) precedent that recognized women’s constitutional right to abortion.
- Slurry of litigation: Later on Monday in Utah, 3rd District Court Judge Andrew Stone, at the request of a Planned Parenthood affiliate, issued a temporary restraining order that would allow abortion services to resume in the state after a ban took effect on Friday.
- Louisiana – The state’s trigger ban goes into effect immediately according to Thompson Reuters. Anyone who provides an abortion can face up to 10 years in prison and be fined between $10,000 and $100,000. Exceptions are made for when a person’s life is in danger.
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Florida – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law in April banning abortions after 15 weeks. They are currently allowed until 24 weeks. The new law, which takes effect on July 1, will cut access to late-term abortions for women.
- Louisiana and Texas- Trigger Law banning abortion temporarily blocked.
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Overview of law: 35 states require an abortion to be performed by a licensed physician. 19 states require an abortion to be performed in a hospital after a specified point in the pregnancy, and 17 states require the involvement of a second physician after a specified point.
- Understanding the trigger law: Abortion restrictions by states in US can be classified into-banned, trigger banned, likely to be banned,legal and uncertain. While all trigger bans have the same intent of banning abortion, their implementation mechanisms, timelines and other details differ while in other official ban awaits. A trigger law is a nickname for a law that is unenforceable but may achieve enforceability if a key change in circumstances occurs.
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