- More than half of US states are likely to ban or restrict abortion if Roe is overturned.
- That leaves fewer states with abortion access. Experts pinpoint Florida, Kansas and North Carolina as among the most critical for distances many women must travel.
- But will existing protections remain in place? It may depend on an upcoming ballot measure, hostile legislatures and midterm elections.
In a one-story brick building in Tuscaloosa, the West Alabama Women’s Center has been busy in what director Robin Marty fears is a final stretch of providing abortions before most become illegal in her state.
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, she said, abortion access is also likely to collapse all across the Deep South. That could leave her clients, mostly poor, uninsured women of color, with one last option in the region – if it lasts.