Here’s what will happen to abortion access in your state if the Supreme Court decision ensuring legal abortion throughout America is overturned.
The governor of Alabama on Wednesday signed into law a far-ranging abortion ban, with exceptions only if the mother faces a “serious health risk,” and none for cases of rape or incest. Abortion rights groups are sure to challenge it, leading to a fight that the bills sponsor hopes will take the issue of legal abortion in America all the way up to the Supreme Court.
“My goal with this bill, and I think all of our goal, is to have Roe v. Wade turned over, and that decision be sent back to the states,” Alabama Representative Terri Collins told AL.com. She added that states could then work out further exceptions, including those for cases of rape and incest. Roe v. Wade is the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortions, up to a certain point during pregnancy, legal throughout the country, regardless of circumstances.
