Several states across the U.S. moved quickly to ban abortion Friday in the hours after the Supreme Court voted to overturn the legal right to access established by Roe v.
Wade. Thirteen states have so-called “trigger laws” on the books that were written to go into effect as soon as the landmark precedent fell.
Some of those states wasted no time ensuring those bans were in place after Friday’s ruling. Read more: U.S.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade ruling in landmark decision for abortion Pregnant women considering abortions already had been dealing with a near-complete ban in Oklahoma and a prohibition after roughly six weeks in Texas.