In the 100 days since the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade by effectively deleting abortion from the list of constitutionally recognized rights, 66 clinics in 14 different states have stopped practicing voluntary termination of pregnancy. Of these centers, according to a report by the Guttmacher Institute, a research and defense group for the right to abortion, 40 still offer non-abortive services while 26 have closed their doors. Among them is the Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Mississippi – the abortion clinic at the center of the June Supreme Court case that dismantled Roe – which closed in early July with plans to move to New Mexico. Voluntary termination of pregnancy is currently not possible in 14 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Access to abortion is significantly limited in Georgia, where the procedure is allowed until fetal heart activity is detected, which usually occurs around six weeks of pregnancy.
“Even before the sentence was overturned, abortion was difficult or even impossible for many people, especially those who were already having problems accessing health care, including low-income people, blacks, immigrants, young people. , those with disabilities and rural populations, ”said Rachel Jones, principal investigator at the Guttmacher Institute. In the 14 states, 125,780 abortions were performed in 2020.
This week, several anti-abortion groups celebrated the new restrictions, as well as criticizing the Biden administration’s attempts to mitigate the impact of the provision: on Tuesday the US president announced that he will subsidize clinics that provide health services with an additional $ 6 million. free family planning. While two dozen states stand ready to protect the unborn and their mothers, saving up to 200,000 lives a year, the radical Democrats led by the Biden-Harris administration are determined to use the full weight of the federal government to enforce the abortion on demand until birth without any limit, paid for by taxpayers, nationwide, ”said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA Pro-Life America.
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