Restrictions After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Wisconsin Attorney General, the Department of Safety and Professional Services, and the Medical Examining Board filed a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that the 1849 pre-Roe criminal abortion ban is unenforceable.[1]Kaul et al. v. Kapenga et al., Case No. 2022-CV-001594 (Wis. Cir. Ct. June 28, 2022) (complaint). […]
Restrictions Wyoming planned to begin enforcing its trigger ban in late July 2022.[1]WYO. STAT. ANN. § 35-6-102. However, the trigger ban is currently subject to a preliminary injunction and is not in effect.[2]Johnson v. State, No. 18732 (Wy. Dist. Ct. of Teton Cnty. Aug. 10, 2022). On March 21, 2023, Wyoming enacted a total ban […]
Restrictions South Carolina is enforcing a 6-week abortion ban[1]S. 474, 125th Gen. Assemb., Spec. Sess. (S.C. 2023). after the South Carolina Supreme Court declared the ban to be constitutional.[2]Planned Parenthood S. Atl. v. South Carolina, No. 2023-000896 (S.C. Aug. 23, 2023) (order vacating the preliminary injunction and declaring the act constitutional). In 2022, the state […]
Restrictions On June 24, 2022, Utah began enforcing its trigger ban,[1]Utah Code Ann. § 76-7a-201; @UtahSenate, Twitter (Jun. 24, 2022, 8:17 PM) twitter.com/utahsenate/ status/1540489331583766528?cxt=HHwWgMCi1dO49eAqAAAA; Becky Jacobs, Utah’s abortion trigger law is … Continue reading, which bans all abortions except in the case of rape, incest, or the threat to the life of the pregnant person, following […]
Restrictions Pennsylvania law prohibits abortion at twenty-four weeks LMP.[1]18 PA. CONS. STAT. §§ 3211(a), 3203. It also prohibits abortions sought for reasons of sex.[2]Id. § 3204(c). Pregnant people who seek abortion care must undergo a mandatory twenty-four-hour waiting period and biased counseling.[3]28 PA. CODE § 29.37(b); 18 PA. CONS. STAT. § 3205(a)(1)-(2). Pennsylvania also limits […]
Restrictions On June 27, 2022, Ohio began enforcing its 6-week LMP abortion ban[1]OHIO REV. CODE ANN. § 2919.195(A). Preterm-Cleveland v. Yost, no. 1:19-cv-00360 (S.D. Ohio Jun. 24, 2022) (order lifting preliminary injunction). following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.[2]Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s […]
Governance The 1976 Covenant between the United States and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) outlines the relationship between the two and sets forth which sections of the Constitution are applicable to CNMI.[1]48 U.S.C. § 1801 et seq. The Covenant states that the people of the CNMI have a right to self-governance and […]
Restrictions Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, North Carolina enacted a twelve-week abortion ban, which took effect July 1, 2023.[1]S.B. 20, 2023 Leg., Reg. Sess. (N.C. 2023) to be codified at N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-21.81B(2). Beginning October 1, 2023, abortion […]
Restrictions Nebraska law generally prohibits abortion at twelve weeks LMP, twenty weeks post-fertilization and after viability.[1] L.B. 574, 108th Leg., 1st Reg. Sess. (Neb. 2023); NEB. REV. STAT. § 28-3,106; id. § 28-329. The state has a prohibition on D&X procedures, although the Supreme Court held that the statute is unconstitutional.[2]Id. § 28-328; Stenberg v. […]
Restrictions In July 2023, Iowa enacted a new 6-week abortion ban,[1]S.F. 597, 2023 Leg., Spec. Sess. (Ia.. 2023). which has already been enjoined,[2]Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc v. Reynolds, (Iowa Dist. July 17, 2023) (temporarily enjoining the six-week ban), available at: … Continue reading while the previous 6-week ban continues to be enjoined.[3]Planned Parenthood of […]
