KFF June 6, 2024
Note: Originally published in May 2023, this brief has been updated and expanded to address ongoing litigation in many states that is underway to challenge exceptions laws.
Key Takeaways
Abortion is currently banned in 14 states and many other states have attempted to ban or severely restrict access to abortion. Nearly all of these bans include exceptions, which generally fall into four categories: to prevent the death of the pregnant person, when there is risk to the health of the pregnant person, when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, and when there is a lethal fetal anomaly.
- In practice, health and life exceptions to bans have often proven to be unworkable, except in the most extreme...
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