Georgia is the only state with an abortion ban in place that still has clinics performing the procedure.
State abortion bans enacted after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade have so far forced at least 66 clinics across 15 states to stop performing the procedure, according to new data from the pro-abortion rights Guttmacher Institute, impacting millions of women across the U.S. and leaving nearly every state where abortion is largely banned without any places offering the procedure.
The analysis did not include states where abortion bans have been temporarily blocked in state courts, some of which have also experienced clinic closures. In North Dakota, for instance, the state’s abortion ban was blocked after its only remaining clinic had already closed and moved to Minnesota.
125,780. That’s how many abortions were performed in 2020 in the 14 states that no longer have any abortion services, according to data compiled by the Guttmacher Institute. Georgia, where abortion is banned after six weeks but 13 clinics are still performing the procedure before that point, recorded 41,620 abortions in 2020.
Wisconsin is one of the 14 states without any abortion providers, even though the legality of its pre-Roe abortion ban, which was enacted in 1849, is still in question. The state’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul has said the state won’t enforce the law and sued to block it in court, but abortion clinics there have stopped performing the procedure anyway, given the uncertainty.
