Data: Guttmacher Institute; Note: Ohio and Indiana are excluded since court action has temporarily suspended their bans as of Oct. 2, 2022; Chart: Simran Parwani/Axios
More than 80% of abortion clinics in 15 states with strict abortion bans have stopped offering the procedure in the 100 days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that support abortion rights.
Why it matters: The findings bear out predictions that access to the procedure would rapidly decline in conservative-led states after justices effectively ended all federal protections on abortion. Some clinics have moved operations to states where abortion access is protected.
