Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: An estimated 40 million women will lose access to abortion

The 1973 decision that legalized abortion in the US will be struck down by the Supreme Court. In a case brought by Mississippi, the highest court in the land ruled in favor of banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancies. 13 U.S. states have "trigger laws" to immediately ban abortion after the Supreme Court legalized the practice in 1973.

The authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives because the Constitution does not give a right to abortion. Justice Samuel Alito was the author of the majority opinion in the case. It will be up to the states to set their own abortion laws.

Different abortion laws exist in different states. Some states require abortion seekers to wait a minimum time period between in-person counseling and their procedure in order to ensure that women are 100% sure they want to go ahead with an abortion. It has been shown that waiting leads to riskier abortions.

Most states restrict abortion at a certain point during a pregnant woman's last menstrual period. The Guttmacher Institute, a public health think tank that supports abortion access, said before the Supreme Court ruling that some state policymakers have tried to ban abortion before viability.

It is estimated that millions of people would have to travel hundreds of miles to receive abortion care.

There are laws in Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming that will be triggered if the ruling is overturned. There are laws in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wisconsin that ban abortion before or after the Supreme Court's decision.

The regulation of clinics has been a point of focus for many Republican states. Guttmacher said that 23 states have laws or policies that regulate abortion providers, all of which apply to clinics that perform surgical abortion, while 13 states have regulations applying to physicians' offices where abortions are preformed.

Regulations already imposed on both clinics and people who provide abortions include specifications that dictate the size of an abortion-procedure room or a facility's distance from a hospital. Critics argue that the regulations go beyond what's needed.

C. Nicole Mason is the president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a nonprofit organization that supports abortion rights.

Low-income women will be hardest hit by the Supreme Court's decision as they will not be able to travel to other states to get an abortion if it is legalized. Half of women who have abortions live below the federal poverty level, with 75% of them being classified as low-income, up from 27% in 2000

26 states will move to ban abortion immediately after the ruling is overturned, while 13 of those states are going to ban abortion at some point in the future.

According to a paper written by Lawrence Gostin, a law professor at Georgetown University, liberal states are enhancing abortion rights.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, 42% of women of childbearing potential will lose the right to abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court decision. The average distance between an abortion clinic and a person's home would increase from 25 miles to 125 miles.

State officials have enforced abortion restrictions in the past. Texas, Idaho, and Oklahoma recently allowed citizen enforcement. Texas and Oklahoma have laws that apply to anyone who aids or abets an abortion.

Anyone paying for or reimbursing abortions through insurance is subject to the law. They said this could make donations for abortion services illegal. Some people who induce abortion have been charged with crimes of manslaughter and fetal homicide.

Different opinions on abortion

The most severe abortion ban in the country was signed by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt last month, and it only applies to cases of ectopic pregnancies.

He said he was proud to keep his promise to sign every piece of pro-life legislation he had. We have a responsibility as humans to do everything we can to protect that baby's life and the life of the mother.

National Right to Life says that financial considerations are not a reason for a woman to have an abortion. The unborn have a right to life according to anti-abortion groups.

Some abortion opponents think abortion is wrong in cases of rape, incest or when a woman's life is in danger. Focus on the Family, a Christian ministry based in Colorado, says that life begins at conception and that protects the unborn and the physically and mentally challenged.

National Right to Life says that financial considerations are not a reason for a woman to have an abortion.

When the Supreme Court was reported to be considering changing the law regarding abortion, politicians on both sides of the aisle responded by saying that they were in agreement.

He said that California continues to protect and advance reproductive freedom for all.

abortion access is an economic right for women According to the Economic Policy Institute, access to abortion and abortion services can have powerful impacts on abortion patients' economic outcomes, including what kinds of jobs they can and cannot take, educational attainment, chances of being in poverty and financial distress, and so much more.

Mason said that the consequences of a widespread abortion ban went beyond the cost of an abortion. She said that turning Roe would hurt women's equality. It will affect the ability of women to participate fully in the American economy by reducing their labor force participation, cutting into their earnings, and increasing turnover.

If I told you that this person supports abortion, you wouldn't be able to tell how they felt about taxes, health care and immigration.