66 US Clinics Have Halted Abortions Since Supreme Court Struck Down Roe v. Wade: Institute

Zachary StieberOctober 6, 2022

Dozens of clinics in U.S. states have stopped performing abortions in the 100 days since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, according to a new analysis.

In 15 states that have imposed complete or six-week abortion bans, 66 clinics have stopped offering abortions, according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. Twenty-six of the clinics have shut down, including the Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Mississippi, while the others are still performing other services.

The only clinics that were operating in those states before the Supreme Court decision that are still offering abortion are all located in Georgia.

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin now have zero such clinics.

In those 14 states, more than 125,000 abortions were performed in 2020. Some 41,600 abortions were performed in Georgia that year.

Roe v. Wade, a 1973 Supreme Court decision, concluded that access to abortion was a constitutional right. The decision was wrongly decided, the same court ruled in June, striking down both Roe v. Wade and an associated ruling, Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

That returned to states the ability to impose more restrictive laws concerning abortion. In some states, laws that were on the books took effect as a result of the ruling; in others, legislators passed new laws that would have or likely would have been blocked if Roe and Planned Parenthood were not struck down.

“Much more research will need to be conducted to grasp the full extent of the chaos, confusion and harm that the US Supreme Court has unleashed on people needing abortions,” the Guttmacher Institute said in its analysis.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America offered a different view. The group said that the abortion bans already in effect or slated to take effect “are anticipated to protect