Bloomberg: Laws Revive ‘World Before Roe’ as Abortions Require Arduous Trek
By Amanda Crawford
“Over the past two years, state lawmakers across the U.S. have been passing new abortion restrictions at a record pace. Dozens of laws stipulating who can perform abortions, how abortion pills can be administered, tighter building standards for abortion clinics and what women need to do before abortions have been enacted — helping create a patchwork of access to the procedure that the U.S. Supreme Court deemed a constitutional right almost 40 years ago.
Court decisions after Roe have permitted more regulation of the procedure by states. Lawmakers have responded by pushing the envelope of what they can do, including laws that make it more difficult on clinics and doctors who provide abortions and measures intended to shame women and make abortions more of a hassle. The new laws are increasing regional disparities with women in the South, Midwest and Mountain West facing more barriers than those in the Northeast or on the West Coast.
‘Access basically depends entirely on where you live,’ said Julie Rikelman, litigation director for the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights. ‘Even though it is supposed to be a constitutional right available to all Americans in the United States, it is really a right only available to a minority of American women’.”
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