The Supreme Court annulled this Friday the protection of the right to voluntary interruption of pregnancy and generated a national and global uproar. The judicial decision could impact almost half of the country.
The historic decision of 1973, Roe vs. Wadeguaranteed the constitutional right to abortion in the United States. After its revocation, it was left to the states of that country to legislate whether the termination of pregnancy is legal or not and under what circumstances.
The measure of the Supreme Court to repeal and eliminate this right to women this Friday generated a national and global impact due to the setback that for many people and political, medical and social organizations implies at the jurisdictional level within that country as in the rest of the world. world.
Internally, and immediately after learning of the Supreme Court ruling, Missouri and Texas have been the first states to restrict abortion, as reported by the BBC international news network.
The most conservative states have been able to do so by means of triggering laws, also known as activation or “trigger” laws, designed to take effect automatically or through rapid state action once constitutional protection is removed.
Missouri Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued an opinion Friday that triggered the state’s anti-abortion law, thereby banning the procedure except in cases of medical emergency.
The States that are on the way to adhere to the elimination of the constitutional right to abortion
Several states are expected to follow in the footsteps of Missouri and Texas. And it is that another 11 have listed trigger laws: Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming would be treated.
Four other states could revive pre-Roe v. Roe abortion bans. Wade or they would have new laws that have not been blocked by courts: Alabama, Arizona, Florida and Wisconsin.
If to these states are added the restrictive legislation of others that have conditioned abortion according to the weeks of gestation, there could be 26 States in which it would eventually end up conditioning, to a greater or lesser extent, the procedure. This is what the Guttmacher Institute, a private non-profit organization that supports abortion rightsin his analysis of the geopolitical reality of the country in each of its states.
The States of that country that protect the right of women and reject its repeal
There are 12 States that explicitly allow abortion: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and the federal capital of the country. In the last few hours, its governors have spoken out against the elimination of the constitutional right and have clarified that they would continue to offer the procedure, not only to women in their jurisdiction, but also to those from territories where it is prohibited.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, there are four other states that have codified the right to abortion throughout pregnancy without state interference: Colorado, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, and Vermont.
In these 16 cases, these are States that have moved and acted with specific regulations and practices to strengthen existing protections or expand access to abortion this year.