At least 43 clinics have stopped performing abortions since the US Supreme Court’s decision to no longer guarantee women’s right to terminate their pregnancies, according to a study released Thursday.
In the thirty days after this historic ruling, issued on June 24, eleven states have banned all abortions or abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, says the Guttmacher Institute, which campaigns for access to contraception and abortion .
As a result, 43 clinics, including 23 in the state of Texas alone, 5 in Oklahoma and 5 in Alabama, closed or refocused their activities on other care, according to the count of this organization whose data shows reference.
Half of the states should ban abortion
One of them, “the ‘Pink House,’ at the center of the case that led to the Supreme Court overturning, closed on July 7 after long being the only abortion facility in Mississippi.
“Abortion access, already severely lacking in much of the country, will continue to deteriorate as more states adopt abortion bans in the coming weeks and months,” the study authors write.
Some states, like Louisiana or North Dakota, have laws that prohibit abortion, but legal battles have slowed implementation. Others, like Indiana, have called an exceptional parliamentary session to approve new texts in this regard. Eventually, half of the states, especially in the conservative South and Central United States, should ban abortions.
Source: BFM TV
