Four months after Roe’s overturn – a recap

In 14 states all of their abortion clinics have closed. In 15 states (including Georgia, where abortion is not banned but restricted), 66 of the 79 abortion clinics that provided abortion services have stopped doing that. Forty of them still offer services other than abortions, and 26 have closed completely. “This means that nearly a third (29%) of all women of reproductive age in the US live in states where abortion is either unavailable or severely restricted,” write the authors of an analysis prepared for the Guttmacher Institute.*

On October 2, the Guttmacher Institute published a list of states in which abortion laws or abortion practices have changed, indicating the number of abortion clinics operating before Roe. In 2020, there were 167,400 abortions in these 15 states.

Pro-choice advocates are sounding the alarm–more and more states are restricting and banning abortion. By winter, the number is expected to exceed 26. And the Democratic Party in the US, in the run-up to the election, released a video scaring voters with a dystopian vision of a future with a nationwide abortion ban.

A list of states that have restricted and banned abortion from the Guttmacher Institute:

• Idaho (formerly 3 clinics)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 1 clinic is completely closed, 2 are open for other services
• Alabama (formerly 5 clinics)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 1 clinic is completely closed, 4 are open for other services
• Arizona (formerly 8 clinics)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 1 clinic is completely closed, 7 are open for other services
• Arkansas (formerly 2 clinics)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 1 clinic is completely closed, 1 is open for other services
• Wisconsin (previously 4 clinics)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 0 clinics closed completely, 4 open for other services
• Georgia (formerly 14 clinics)
  • 13 clinics offering abortion services
  • 1 clinic is completely closed
• West Virginia (formerly 1 clinic)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 0 clinics closed completely, 1 is open for other services
• Kentucky (formerly 2 clinics)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 1 clinic is completely closed, 1 is open for other services
• Louisiana (formerly 3 clinics)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 3 clinics completely closed, 0 open for other services
• Mississippi (formerly 1 clinic)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 1 clinic completely closed, 0 open for other services
• Missouri (formerly 1 clinic)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 0 clinics closed completely, 1 is open for other services
• Oklahoma (formerly 4 clinics)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 2 clinics are completely closed, 2 are open for other services
• Tennessee (formerly 7 clinics)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 2 clinics completely closed, 5 are open for other services
• Texas (formerly 23 clinics)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 12 clinics are completely closed, 11 are open for other services
• South Dakota (formerly 1 clinic)
  • 0 clinics offering abortion services
  • 0 clinics closed completely, 1 is open for other services

*Kirstein M et al, 100 Days Post-Roe: At Least 66 Clinics Across 15 US States Have Stopped Offering Abortion Care, Guttmacher Institute, 2022