If you`re pregnant and looking to have an abortion, Planned Parenthood or another trusted reproductive health care provider can help you determine how far your pregnancy has progressed and help you understand your options, including traveling to another state where abortion is legal, if necessary. The Supreme Court plans to end the constitutional right to abortion — depriving us of the power to control our own bodies — and politicians aim to ban abortion in the United States, no matter where you live. We are fighting back. More: `Some of us may not be re-elected`: Indiana`s abortion ban could affect November`s elections The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, which means states can now ban abortion. Some states have banned abortion or created many restrictions. But abortion is still legal in many states, and it is legal to go to another state to get an abortion. Abortion is NOT banned nationally. Since September 1, 2021, the state of Texas has enacted a new restriction on abortion. Known as Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), this law restricts our ability to provide abortion care in Texas beyond about 6 weeks of pregnancy and sometimes even earlier. We are fighting this law in court, and we are always here for you.
Providers in other states that have become islands for legal abortion do not agree with policies that restrict patient access outside the state. In Colorado, Dr. Nancy Fang, a gynecologist-obstetrician at denver`s Comprehensive Women`s Health Center, said she understands caution given the uncertainty surrounding abortion bans in the state. But, she said, restricting access will hurt patients and add stress to other clinics that continue to offer medical abortions. 2009: Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider, is murdered on his way to church in Kansas Abortion bans and restrictions also hit low-income people, for whom the cost of transportation, childcare and recreation often conspires to put abortion out of reach — even when it`s legal. Less than 2 percent of abortions in Indiana in 2021 took place in a hospital, according to the Indiana Department of Health; The vast majority took place in one of seven autonomous abortion clinics in the state that would not be eligible under the law. Lawmakers in this state are considering the following bills that affect access to safe and legal abortion. Doctors at Planned Parenthood clinics will continue to provide services outside of abortion, such as cancer biopsies, that control patients` complex contraceptive needs and help with difficult IUD insertions and removals, said Dr. Amy Caldwell, a gynecologist-obstetrician who works at the Indianapolis and Louisville clinics.
Q: If this law is in effect, can I still have an abortion? Some anti-abortion politicians have used the COVID-19 pandemic to impose abortion bans. Look at the timeline of the new coronavirus-based abortion bans and our fight against them. The first visit is for an ultrasound and the second visit is for the procedure. Under SB 8, another ultrasound is required at your second visit to make sure you are still within the new legal limit for abortion treatment in Texas. If the second ultrasound shows that you have crossed this new legal limit, we can still help you access abortion treatments outside the state. If their efforts are not successful, Indiana Planned Parenthood clinics will remain open and continue to provide the health services they currently provide outside of abortion care, including wellness visits, gender-affirming care and care for sexually transmitted infections, Gibron said. Just under one-fifth of visits to Planned Parenthood of Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky clinics in 2020 were, according to the organization`s annual report on abortion treatments. While Planned Parenthood restricts the distribution of abortion pills in Montana, an organization called Just the Pill plans to expand. Patients can schedule telemedicine appointments with Just the Pill`s medical providers and then pick up the pills in Montana, Minnesota, Wyoming, or Colorado. 2016: Anti-abortion Judge Antonin Scalia dies and begins a battle over the future of the U.S. Supreme Court. In an unprecedented move, Senate Anti-Abortion Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refuses to begin the confirmation process to fill the vacancy.
Then, despite being nearly 3 million votes behind his opponent, Donald Trump wins enough electoral votes to become elected president. Planned Parenthood`s policy change in Montana is a response to the changing legal landscape, said Jennifer Sandman, senior director of public policy litigation and law for Planned Parenthood`s national organization. « People are acting under extraordinary conditions of chaos and fear instilled by what the Supreme Court has left us and by threats from anti-abortion politicians in some states, » Sandman said. The following abortion restrictions are currently in effect in that state. This decision creates nearly 50 years of precedent. And it goes against the will of the American people, 80 percent of whom believe abortion should be legal. The Montana Chapter isn`t the only Planned Parenthood network to temporarily change its guidelines for abortion pills due to the chaotic consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court`s action. Planned Parenthood North Central States, which offers medical abortions in Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, said its patients must take the pills in states where abortion is legal. Although Ohio`s Fetal Heart Rhythm Act went into effect on the day the Dobbs decision was made, the center`s sister clinic in Dayton has continued to offer layoffs for « only » patients per week who are less than six weeks pregnant, the spokesman said.
About 50 patients a week who do not qualify are seen pre-operatively in Dayton and then go to the Indianapolis clinic for abortions. Abortion bans have already come into effect in some states. In other cases, the outrageous Supreme Court decision fuels the efforts of narrow-minded politicians to ban abortion soon. Florida health care providers filed a lawsuit on June 1, 2022, in which they filed a constitutional challenge to House Bill 5 (HB), a ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy that threatens to jail doctors for providing basic care beyond that time. Shortly after a state trial court formally issued an order on July 5 blocking the state`s 15-week abortion ban on the grounds that it is likely to violate the Florida Constitution and cause irreparable harm, the state appealed the decision, triggering an automatic stay of that injunction under Florida state law. The law, in effect since July 1, has already had devastating consequences for the health and future of Floridians by forcing them to continue carrying pregnancies to term against their will. Q. If I can`t get an abortion in Texas, where can I go? Encouraged by a Supreme Court ruling that could end the constitutional right to abortion this spring, anti-abortion politicians wasted no time in passing legislation to severely restrict or ban abortion altogether. Whatever happens, Planned Parenthood believes you deserve accurate information and access to the full range of reproductive health services – including safe and legal abortion – so you can make your own informed health care decisions. The reality is that millions of women face unplanned pregnancies every year. Many, especially young women, feel lonely or have questions when they think of an abortion.
