Since the decision of the Supreme Court, eleven states have prohibited almost abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Twenty-three clinics have notably closed or refocused their activities in Texas, five in Oklahoma and five in Alabama.
Le Monde with AFP
At least forty-three clinics have stopped practicing abortions since the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States to no longer guarantee the right of women to interrupt their pregnancy, according to a study published Thursday, July 28. >
In the thirty days having followed this historic judgment, rendered on June 24, eleven states prohibited all abortions, or those after six weeks of pregnancy, counts the Guttmacher Institute, which militates for access to contraception and to the voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion).
Consequently, forty -three clinics – including twenty -three for the Texas State alone, five in Oklahoma and five in Alabama – have put the key under the door or refocused their activities on other care, according to the count of this organization whose data refers.
The only clinic to practice abortion in the Mississippi has closed
One of them, the “Pink House”, at the heart of the file that led to the flip-flop of the Supreme Court, closed on July 7 after having been for a long time to practice abortions in Mississippi.
“Access to abortion, which is already very bad in a large part of the country, will continue to deteriorate, since new states will adopt prohibitions to abort in the weeks and months to come” , write the authors of the study.