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 On March 21, 2023, Wyoming enacted a total abortion ban with an immediate effective date; currently, the law is subject to a preliminary injunction and is not in effect.[1]H.B. 152, 67th Leg., Reg. Sess. (WY 2023) to be codified at Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-6-102 et seq.; Johnson v. State, No. 18853 (Wy. Dist. […]
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), Planned Parenthood S. Atl […]
Restrictions In June 2022, Utah began enforcing its trigger ban,[1]Utah Code Ann. § 76-7a-201; @UtahSenate, Twitter (Jun. 24, 2022, 8:17 PM) https://twitter.com/utahsenate/ status/1540489331583766528?cxt=HHwWgMCi1dO49eAqAAAA; Becky Jacobs, Utah’s abortion trigger … Continue reading which bans all abortions except in the case of rape, incest, or the threat to the life of the pregnant person, following the U.S. Supreme […]
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 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), codified at N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-21.81B(2). The state’s twenty-week gestational ban is currently […]
Restrictions In September 2024, a trial court found that the North Dakota’s total abortion ban is both unconstitutionally void for vagueness and violates pregnant people’s fundamental right to access abortion care.[1]Access Indep. Health Serv. Inc v. Wrigley, No. 08-2022-CV-1608 (N.D. S. Cent. Dist. Ct. Sept. 12, 2024) (finding the ban unconstitutional). North Dakota had previously […]
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 The Nebraska Constitution prohibits abortion care after the first trimester except when the pregnant person experiences a medical emergency or the pregnancy is the result of sexual violence.[1]Ne. Const. art. 1, § 31 Voters approved this amendment in November 2024.[2]Margery A. Beck, Josh Funk, Voters back Nebraska’s ban on abortions after 12 weeks of […]
Restrictions In July 2024, following a decision from the Iowa Supreme Court, the District Court removed the injunction blocking enforcement of the 6-week ban enacted in 2023.[1]Iowa Code § 146E.2; Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc v. Reynolds, (Iowa June 28, 2024). The previous 6-week ban is still enjoined, see Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, […]
