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Posted: 2022-06-24T15:43:33Z | Updated: 2022-07-01T17:18:41Z

The same day the Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion, anti-choice states started enacting trigger laws and other pre-Roe v. Wade bans.

Missouri and Texas were the first two states to swiftly ban abortion in the wake of the ruling. The Texas pre-Roe ban was blocked a few days after the Supreme Court decision, allowing abortion up to around the six-week point to resume until a hearing on July 12.

Trigger bans in Louisiana, South Dakota and Kentucky immediately went into effect after the ruling came down, although Louisianas trigger ban was later blocked and abortion care resumed until July 8 when a hearing is set. A Kentucky state court also granted a restraining order blocking the states trigger law and six-week abortion ban; a hearing on the request is set for July 6.

After certain state officials certified that Roe v. Wade had been overturned, trigger or pre-Roe bans in Arkansas, Alabama, Utah and Oklahoma went into effect, the latter despite Oklahoma already having a full abortion ban in place that deputized private citizens to enforce it. On Monday, a Utah state court granted Planned Parenthood s request for a temporary restraining order blocking the states ban, allowing services to resume in Utah, effective immediately, for the time being.

All of the recent bans have no exceptions for rape or incest only an exception if the life of the mother is at risk, although pro-choice experts point out that the language around these types of exceptions is vague.

States such as West Virginia have not yet fully outlawed abortion, but they do have abortion bans on the books that predated the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Its unclear how or when some of these pre-Roe bans will be implemented, forcing many clinics to stop services altogether to avoid risking the prosecution of the clinic, staff or their patients.

Providers in West Virginia, as well as Arizona and Wisconsin, have stopped offering abortion care due to ambiguity over whether pre-Roe abortion bans are in effect yet.

Other states, like Virginia, Montana and Tennessee, are not far behind: Many lawmakers are calling to swiftly enact abortion restrictions. Ohio, as well as Tennessee and South Carolina, implemented six-week abortion restrictions after the Supreme Court decision freed up bans that had been blocked by lower courts before Roe fell.

Millions of women of reproductive age no longer have access to abortion care in the states that have banned abortion. That number doesnt include many nonbinary and genderqueer people who are able to get pregnant and will also no longer have access to these services.

South Dakotas last abortion clinic was forced to pause services ahead of the Supreme Court ruling, anticipating the fall of Roe.

Dr. Sarah Traxler, the chief medical officer and abortion provider for Planned Parenthood North Central States, told HuffPost in February that she flew in from her home state of Minnesota to South Dakota twice a month to provide care.

Now, with abortion illegal in South Dakota, she hopes the patients she served there can reach her in Minnesota.

Last week, when we performed our last abortion, I was the physician there, and the last patient I saw had a story very similar to most patients I see. She was a young mother, she already had children, she was struggling to make ends meet and couldnt imagine bringing another child into that circumstance, Traxler told reporters on Friday. Thankfully, she was able to make decisions about her life and her family that were right for her.

Ive seen countless women like this throughout my career, and unfortunately for the women of South Dakota, this is no longer a reality. They are now subject to the opinions of legislators who are not impacted by this decision, she added.