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By Khaleda Rahman
National Correspondent
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Two years after the Supreme Court's conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping away constitutional protections for abortion, the United States has an extremely uneven abortion landscape.
Roe, the landmark 1973 ruling, "enflamed debate and deepened division" on the issue of abortion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
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The court's decision "leaves the question of abortion for the people and their elected representatives in the democratic process," Alito wrote.
Since then, most Republican-controlled states have had new abortion restrictions in effect, including some that have banned abortion in almost all circumstances. Most Democrat-led states have laws or executive orders to protect access to abortion.
In some states, the fight over access to abortion is continuing in courtrooms, with cases challenging aspects of the abortion bans or restrictions.
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And in every state where abortion has been directly on the ballot since Roe's demise, voters have sided with abortion rights supporters. Voters will have a say on the issue in several more states this fall.
The Supreme Court last week, in its first abortion decision since overturning Roe, unanimously voted to preserve access to mifepristone, a drug that is used for abortion in the U.S.
The map below shows the current status of abortion in each state:
Fourteen states ban abortion after conception, with limited exceptions: Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia.
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Some states have gestational limits on abortion. Florida, Georgia and South Carolina ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
Nebraska and North Carolina ban abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy, while Arizona bans the procedure after 15 weeks and Utah bans abortion after 18 weeks. In Arizona, a near-total ban on abortions may be briefly enforceable this summer until a repeal of the state's 1864 abortion law takes effect in the fall.
Abortion bans in Iowa, Montana and Wyoming are currently blocked.
Iowa lawmakers passed a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy last year, but it has been temporarily blocked as litigation continues. Abortion is currently allowed until 22 weeks of pregnancy in the state.
Montana has passed several anti-abortion laws that have been blocked by courts, while two abortion bans are blocked in Wyoming. Abortion is allowed until fetal viability, usually around 24 weeks, in both states.
Abortion is legal in Alaska, Kansas, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. Ohio, Kansas and Wisconsin allow the procedure until 22 weeks, New Hampshire until 24 weeks and Virginia until fetal viability. Alaska has no gestational limit.
In 20 states and Washington, D.C., abortion remains legal, and additional protections have been put in place since the Dobbs decision. Those states include California, Colorado, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania.
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