More than 60 abortion clinics across 15 states have stopped providing abortions in the 100 days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Sixty-six clinics have stopped providing abortions, according to a study by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights advocacy research group. Of those 66 clinics, 40 still offer non-abortion services, and 26 have shut their doors completely.
Abortions are currently almost entirely unavailable in 14 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The 14 states were responsible for 125,780 abortions in 2020.
Abortions are also significantly limited in a 15th state, Georgia, where the procedure is allowed until the detection of fetal cardiac activity, which usually happens around six weeks of pregnancy. In 2020, 41,620 abortions were performed in Georgia.
Nearly a third of American women of reproductive age now live in these 15 states where abortion is unavailable or severely restricted.
The Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in June, gutting the constitutional federal right to an abortion. In the 100 days since then, access to abortion has become a massive issue.
Even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe, getting an abortion was difficult or outright impossible for many people, the primary research scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, Rachel Jones, said.
This was especially true for those who were already facing steep barriers to accessing health care, including people with low incomes, Black and Brown people, immigrants, young people, those with disabilities, and rural populations.
The inequities are only likened to worsen as abortion care vanishes in a patchwork of states.
Abortion access remains in limbo in seven other states, including Indiana, South Carolina and Ohio, where laws restricting access to the procedure have been put on hold in court.
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