On Friday, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, returning policymaking power to individual states and leading to a major shift in abortion law nationwide, the Deseret News reported.
Thirteen states, including Utah, have approved “trigger laws,” which are total bans or restrictions to abortion access past a certain number of weeks, that will now go into effect since the original ruling has been overturned.
Here are the states where trigger laws would go into effect immediately, per CNN:
- Arkansas.
- Idaho.
- Kentucky.
- Louisiana.
- Mississippi.
- Missouri.
- North Dakota.
- Oklahoma.
- South Dakota.
- Tennessee.
- Texas.
- Utah.
- Wyoming.
A total of 23 states have laws that limit access to abortion, according to a Guttmacher Institute analysis. Nine states, including Arizona, Michigan and Mississippi, have abortion restrictions that were put in place before the Roe ruling that were never removed.
A total of 16 states and Washington, D.C., have laws that protect the right to an abortion. Of those, four states and Washington, D.C., have laws that protect the right to an abortion throughout pregnancy, without any interference. These states are:
- Colorado.
- Washington, D.C.
- New Jersey.
- Oregon.
- Vermont.
These states permit abortion prior to viability or when the procedure is necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant woman:
- California.
- Connecticut.
- Delaware.
- Hawaii.
- Illinois.
- Maine.
- Maryland.
- Massachusetts.
- Nevada.
- New York.
- Rhode Island.
- Washington.