Abortion bans are popping up all around the country. Here are the states that have passed new laws to challenge Roe v. Wade in 2019

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Protesters demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in the morning as the court takes up a major abortion case focusing on whether a Texas law that imposes strict regulations on abortion doctors and clinic buildings interferes with the constitutional right of a woman to end her pregnancy, in Washington March 2, 2016.

• The spring of 2019 has seen an unprecedented surge in Republican-led states passing near-total bans on most abortions.
• In the months of April and May alone, the governors of Ohio, Georgia, and Alabama signed some of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country into law.
• None of the laws have gone into effect yet, and all are being challenged in court.
• Some legislators have explicitly stated the purpose of these bans is to bring a case before the Supreme Court that could result in the court overturning Roe v. Wade.
• Here are all the states that have passed new abortion bans or restrictions in 2019.
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For years, Republican-controlled state legislatures have enacted new abortion restrictions including mandating counseling, waiting periods, and expensive regulations on clinics to steadily limit access to the procedure.

The spring of 2019, however, has seen an unprecedented surge in Republican-led states passing near-total bans on most abortions.

Some legislators have explicitly stated the purpose of these bans is to bring a case before the Supreme Court that could result in the court overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 court decision in which the court ruled that states cannot ban abortion before the point of fetal viability.

Read more: Roe v. Wade makes the state bans against abortions unenforceable. Here's how conservative activists plan to overturn it.

In the months of April and May alone, the governors of Ohio, Georgia, and Alabama signed some of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country.

None of these new laws or any previous six-week ban states have passed, however, have formally gone into effect.

Previous six-week bans passed by North Dakota and Iowa were struck down by federal and state judges, respectively. And new abortion bans introduced by Georgia, Alabama, are currently being challenged in court by organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights.

Here are all the states that have passed new abortion bans or restrictions in 2019.