Supreme Court Bans Abortion Right In US, Women Can No Longer Abort Babies
Supreme Court Bans Abortion Right In US, Women Can No Longer Abort Babies
As cities erupted in outrage at the historic decision, abortion was already prohibited in numerous US states on Saturday. These prohibitions were enacted just hours after Roe v Wade was overturned.
It happened after the US Supreme Court on Friday, more than 50 years after it was formed, eliminated the constitutional right to abortion and left it up to individual states to decide. At some point, it’s anticipated that nearly half of the states would outlaw abortion.
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It is still allowed to go outside of your state to seek an abortion, according to a website connected to Planned Parenthood, a US organization that provides sexual health care.
Supreme Court Bans Abortion Right In US, Women Can No Longer Abort Babies
Following the US Supreme Court’s decision to uphold abortion rights, there are demonstrations outside.
Utah was one of the first states to forbid practically all abortions; following the verdict, the state’s abortion ban had already taken effect as of Friday night.
Although it would be wrong for Utah women to seek abortions in neighboring states, Republican state senator Daniel McCay of Utah, who sponsored the state’s “trigger law,” said he had no immediate intentions to stop them from doing so.
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The “heartbeat bill” in Ohio, which prohibits the majority of abortions after the first audible heartbeat of the fetus, went into force as well. A federal judge agreed to lift an injunction preventing the 2019 bill hours after the high court’s announcement on Friday, ending a nearly three-year delay.
As soon as Alabama’s 2019 state abortion ban went into force, all abortions — including those for rape and incest victims — were immediately prohibited. For the mother’s health, there is only one exemption.
The state’s two abortion clinics were informed by Arkansas’s health department shortly after the announcement that abortions were now prohibited by a statute that forbade them all but in cases of medical emergencies where the mother’s life was in danger.
Supreme Court Bans Abortion Right In US, Women Can No Longer Abort Babies
What state laws could go into effect?
Facilities were advised that performing an abortion is now a violation of the law, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
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West Virginia’s only abortion clinic stopped performing abortions on Friday. The state has a law that criminalises providing abortions, carrying a three to 10 year prison sentence, but it is unclear how it will proceed on enforcement after the supreme court ruling.
“Roe has never been enough, but in states like West Virginia, it was the only thing protecting abortion access,” said Katie Quinonez, the executive director of Women’s Health Centre of West Virginia.
Now, she said, people from the state seeking abortions would be forced to travel hundreds, or even thousands, of miles to do so and marginalised communities would be worst affected.
Supreme Court Bans Abortion Right In US, Women Can No Longer Abort Babies
In Missouri, the attorney general, Eric Schmitt, said he was acting immediately to enforce a state law banning abortion except in “cases of medical emergency”. It follows a 2019 law that included a trigger provision bringing it into effect after Roe v Wade was overturned.
In some states, including Arizona and Texas, abortion clinics temporarily stopped providing abortions while they assessed the legality of continuing.
Meanwhile, multiple states vowed to protect the right to abortion. In Washington DC, the mayor, Muriel Bowser, responded by declaring it “a pro-choice city”, but warned that as a district, not a state, it was now vulnerable because Congress had oversight of it.
The Democratic governors of California, Washington and Oregon have all vowed to protect abortion rights and help women who travel to the west coast from other states for abortions.
Anticipating an influx of people seeking abortions, they issued a “multi-state commitment” and said they would collaborate to defend patients and medical professionals providing abortions and pledged to “protect against judicial and local law enforcement cooperation with out-of-state investigations, inquiries, and arrests” into abortions in their states.
The Massachusetts Republican governor, Charlie Baker, signed an executive order to protect access to reproductive healthcare.
Supreme Court Bans Abortion Right In US, Women Can No Longer Abort Babies
In North Carolina, its Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, also vowed to protect abortion rights, despite the legislature being controlled by Republicans. In response to the ruling, he put out a fundraising appeal on Friday for assistance in preventing Republicans from getting veto-proof majorities in the state in November.
Also, In New Mexico, where abortion is readily available, the top public prosecutor and Democratic nominee for attorney general, Raúl Torrez, urged politicians to take more action to protect women’s access to abortions, including for those from other states.
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