Source: CNN
Map Color Key
Red: Banned
Yellow: Legal with Gestational Limit of 6-18 Weeks
Green: Legal
As of June 2024, 14 U.S. States have banned abortion:
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Idaho
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- West Virginia
Although near-total bans exist in these states, most allow for exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
7 states have legalized abortion with gestational limits of 6-18 weeks:
- Nebraska: banned at 12 weeks
- Utah: banned at 18 weeks
- Arizona: banned at 15 weeks
- North Carolina: banned at 12 weeks
- South Carolina: banned at 6 weeks
- Georgia: banned at 6 weeks
- Florida: banned at 6 weeks
29 states have legalized abortion, either up to the point of viability or with no gestational limit:
- Washington: legal until viability
- Oregon: no gestational limit
- California: no gestational limit
- Nevada: legal until 24 weeks
- Montana: legal until viability
- Wyoming: legal until viability
- Colorado: no gestational limit
- New Mexico: no gestational limit
- Kansas: legal until 22 weeks
- Minnesota: legal until viability
- Iowa: legal until 22 weeks
- Wisconsin: legal until 22 weeks
- Illinois: legal until viability
- Michigan: no gestational limit
- Ohio: legal until 22 weeks
- Pennsylvania: legal until 24 weeks
- Virginia: legal until the third trimester
- Maryland: legal until viability
- Delaware: legal until viability
- New Jersey: no gestational limit
- New York: legal until viability
- Vermont: no gestational limit
- Massachusetts: legal until 24 weeks
- Connecticut: legal until viability
- Rhode Island: legal until viability
- New Hampshire: legal until 24 weeks
- Maine: legal until viability
- Alaska: no gestational limit
- Hawaii: legal until viability
**Viability is defined as “the ability of a developing fetus to survive independent of a pregnant woman’s womb”. This point is generally considered to be between 22 and 24 weeks gestational age.
References:
https://www.cnn.com/us/abortion-access-restrictions-bans-us-dg/index.html