At least 43 clinics in the United States have stopped performing abortions since the US Supreme Court’s decision to remove the right to abortion and leave it to the states themselves. In the first 30 days of this landmark ruling, 11 US states have banned all abortions or abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
The figures come from the Guttmacher Institute, which campaigns for access to contraception and abortion.
Most clinics had to close in Texas (23), in Oklahoma and Alabama there were five. The only clinic in Mississippi was also forced to close. Access to termination of pregnancy, already very poor in much of the country, is expected to continue to deteriorate as more states enact abortion bans in the coming weeks and months. It seems that eventually half of the 50 states, especially in the conservative south and center of the country, will ban abortions.