Is abortion legal in all 50 states?

How does the new law in Arkansas stack up against the rest of the country? read more

Abortion is legal in all U.S. states, and every state has at least one abortion clinic. Abortion is a controversial political issue, and regular attempts to restrict it occur in most states. One such case, originating in Texas, led to the Supreme Court case of Whole Woman's Health v. read more

Forty states have prohibitions based on a specified stage of pregnancy, none of which are as restrictive as the law Arkansas just adopted: The next chart -- click on it to go to a larger interactive version -- from Remapping Debate, which our friends over at Wonkblog flagged in January, is a useful visual representation of which states have the most abortion restrictions in place. read more

As it stands today, American women have the legal right to obtain an abortion in all 50 states, through all nine months of pregnancy, for virtually any reason at all. This has been true since the Supreme Court declared that autonomous abortion rights are built into the Constitution, and that legal barriers to abortion are unconstitutional. read more