7 maps and charts that show what could happen now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned

Grace Panetta,Shayanne Gal,Taylor Tyson,Sarah GrayJun 25, 2022, 05:11 IST

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 5, 2017 file photo, demonstrators participate in a rally for Planned Parenthood at the Capitol in Austin, Texas. Abortion advocates say Texas' capital of Austin has become the first city in the nation to provide funding toward logistical services for abortion access. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)/Austin American-Statesman via AP)Associated Press

The US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which granted the legal right to abortion in 1973.
The court gutting Roe has returned control of abortion policy back to the states.

The latest stage of pregnancy at which a patient can obtain an abortion by state in 2022 varies from 6 weeks to no limit — if abortion is not banned altogether

Without Roe, 23 states have laws on the books that could outright ban or severely limit access to abortion, and 16 states and DC have passed laws that would explicitly protect the right to abortion.

The number of abortion clinics varies significantly per state, and more have shut down in the South and Midwest over the last decade.

In 2017, 89% of US counties had no known abortion providers, with 38% of US women ages 15-44 living in those counties.

Here's how the phases of pregnancy and fetal development line up with abortion bans. The Second Trimester starts at week 14.

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Before Texas' successful six-week abortion ban, states made many attempts to restrict patients from getting abortions after a certain number of weeks — oftentimes before a woman even knows she's pregnant.

In 2019, the Governors of Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Missouri signed bills to either severely restrict abortion with so-called "heartbeat bills" or, in Alabama's case, ban the procedure altogether.

Other states have tried to ban dilation & evacuation (D&E), the method commonly used to perform abortions after 14 weeks.

The surgical procedure is usually used in late-term miscarriages and abortions to remove the fetal tissue as safely as possible and accounts for less than 0.5% of all abortions.

Prohibiting D&E abortions is effectively a ban on all second-trimester abortions.

In 2019, the Governors of Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Missouri signed bills to either severely restrict abortion with so-called heartbeat bills or, in Alabama's case, ban the procedure altogether.