America Without Roe: Abortion Laws Across the States - Part III - Liberty Nation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Planned Parenthood offers medical abortions up to 11 weeks and surgical up to 16 weeks and six days but will refer women to "other abortion options in your area" if further along.
48% : Abortion is legal in North Dakota out to 22 weeks post-LMP, or 20 weeks gestational, with pills available up to the tenth week.
47% : Abortion is currently legal in Ohio until 20 weeks post-fertilization, or approximately 22 wees after the LMP, except for in the city of Lebanon, where local ordinances prohibit it at any point.
46% : Currently, Planned Parenthood of North Carolina shows the abortion pill available up to 11 weeks after the beginning of the last menstrual period (LMP) and surgical procedures out to 19 weeks and six days.
42% : Abortion is available up to 20 weeks post-fertilization in South Carolina, with an exception for medical emergencies and pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
42% : The effective date is set to the "date that the states are recognized by the United States Supreme Court to have the authority to regulate or prohibit abortion at all stages of pregnancy."
39% : In 2021, two Nebraska towns, the village of Hayes Center and the city of Blue Hill, passed local ordinances outlawing abortion entirely.
39% : After 21 of what turned out to be 27 states, just a handful will actually have in place or seem poised to pass "total abortion bans" - that is, prohibiting abortion from the point of conception - should Roe be overruled, and in every case, there is an exception for, at the very least, saving the life of the mother.
38% : In the rest of Nebraska, however, abortion is legal pre-viability for any reason and post-viability if the woman is a victim of abuse or neglect or if the medical doctor has certified in writing that the continued pregnancy is a threat to the woman's health.
37% : North Carolina is the only state here examined by Liberty Nation that didn't make the Guttmacher Institute's list of states certain or likely to ban or restrict abortion should Roe be overturned, and as such, falls outside of the "26 states" so often cited lately.
37% : However, Governor Kevin Stitt signed into law last month a bill that prohibits abortion from the point of conception, unless necessary to save the mother's life.
37% : There is, however, a recently passed law that prohibits abortion after the point a fetal heartbeat is detected, but it has been blocked by a federal court of appeals.
35% : If passed, and in the absence of Roe, this measure would recognize the unborn as people from the point of conception, criminalizing abortion at any point other than to save the life of the mother.
30% : First signed into law in 1881, the statute made abortion illegal entirely.
22% : Governor Noem and Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg are both anti-abortion, and it's expected that the law would be enforced.

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