At least 43 abortion clinics have shut their doors in the 30 days since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, according to new research.
The research was published Thursday by the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization focused on sexual and reproductive health that supports abortion rights.The closures are concentrated in the South and Midwest, regions that have banned or significantly restricted access to abortion. Guttmacher predicts that the state of abortion access, already"dire," will get even worse as more states ban abortion in the coming weeks and months.
The legal status of abortion remains in flux in several states, creating a fluid situation around access in states beyond the 11 that Guttmacher highlighted in its report. In Wisconsin, for instance, providers stopped offering abortion care because of a pre-Roe trigger ban, but that 1849 law faces a legal challenge.Jones said that if all 26 states that Guttmacher expects to ban abortion do so, more than 200 clinics would ultimately close because of the Supreme Court decision.
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