Latest Abortion and Roe v. Wade News: Live Updates

Abortion-rights groups vow to challenge state bans while abortion opponents push to bolster restrictions.

At churches and Pride festivals, Americans respond with a range of emotions after Friday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v.

The Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v.

Wade has unleashed a frenzy of activity on both sides of the abortion fight, with anti-abortion forces vowing to use the ruling to push for near-total bans in every state in the nation, and abortion rights groups insisting they would harness rage over the decision to take to the streets and push the Biden administration to do more to protect abortion rights.

The court said its ruling on Friday was needed to end what it called a half-century of bitter national controversy sparked by Roe, but its decision set off more immediate and widespread controversy than the original ruling — and guaranteed pitched battles and extraordinary division ahead.

It and other anti-abortion groups pledged to punish prosecutors who have said they would not enforce abortion bans and vowed to take other steps to limit access to abortion, including pushing for legislation prohibiting people from crossing state lines to get abortions or obtaining abortion pills in states where they are illegal.

Groups also promised court fights over the so-called trigger bans that took effect on Friday once the Supreme Court issued its ruling.

Trump became president in 2017, promised street protests in a “Summer of Rage” and said it would back primary challenges to Democrats it considered complicit in the appointment of the conservative Supreme Court majority.

Kristan Hawkins, president of the anti-abortion group Students for Life of America, said its primary focus would now be on preventing pregnant women from getting abortion pills as a workaround to bans.

SAN FRANCISCO — Fear and anger over Friday’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v.

Triplett said she was afraid that other decisions that relied on the same logic as those granting abortion rights would now be in the crosshairs.

In his concurring opinion on Friday, Justice Clarence Thomas said the court should also overturn rulings that had relied on similar legal precedents — including rulings guaranteeing the rights to same-sex marriage and same-sex consensual relations.

Monil Pathak, 25, a software engineer in nearby Mountain View, said she was outraged and terrified by the abortion decision because of the precedent it set, even though she lives in a liberal state that was poised to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution.

Giuliani said he was walking through a ShopRite grocery store in the Charleston neighborhood with supporters when the employee disparaged him and slapped his back, then made an apparent reference to abortion.

Giuliani, who said he understood the remark to be about the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v.

The initial account shared by police did not mention abortion, but said that an unnamed 39-year-old man had hit Mr.

Trump’s personal lawyer, has had a long and conflicted relationship with abortion rights — first opposing them, then supporting them, then reversing himself again.

On the first weekend after the Supreme Court overturned nearly five decades of constitutional abortion rights, Democrats seized on the ruling to portray their Republican opponents as threats to women and their health care providers, while two sitting G.O.P.

And legislators, she said, endorsed a 1931 law making abortions in the state a felony “as have all of the Republican people running for governor.

Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that although the ruling was something the “pro-life movement worked for over 40 years” to achieve, “we have to remember, this not a nationwide ban on abortion.

Kristi Noem of South Dakota, told ABC’s “This Week” that the Supreme Court ruling was “wonderful news,” and that her state would now ban abortions except to save the life of the mother.

When asked what would happen if a South Dakota resident traveled to another state to get an abortion, Ms.

Declaring that “reproductive freedom is a right under Minnesota law,” the governor, Tim Walz, a Democrat, signed an executive order on Saturday declaring that state agencies would not cooperate in the investigation, arrest or surrender of anyone criminally charged by another state for coming to Minnesota for an abortion.

Charlotte Dragga, 36, a transgender woman from Durham, N.C., attending a gay rights rally in Lower Manhattan on Sunday, called Friday's Supreme Court decision “absolutely atrocious.” The ruling would have consequences far beyond abortion, she said.

The amendment, which would go to California voters in November for approval, comes as states across the country react to the sweeping Supreme Court decision ending longstanding abortion protections.

At least 15 states and the District of Columbia affirmed or expanded abortion rights before Friday’s court shift, while roughly two dozen other states signaled that they would end or dramatically restrict access to the procedure.

Gavin Newsom of California has vowed to “fight like hell” to sustain abortion rights in the state.

Newsom signed a bill to shield California abortion providers from liability or prosecution related to out-of-state bans on abortions.

Jay Inslee of Washington to establish a West Coast abortion firewall that would protect providers and patients from the legal reach of other states.

Pending bills would authorize experienced nurse practitioners to perform first-trimester abortions without a physician’s supervision and create a state-administered fund to help underwrite travel expenses for the many women from abortion-ban states expected to come to California for an abortion.

But after the Supreme Court leak in May, the state’s legislative leaders moved to make certain that abortion and contraception are explicitly protected.

— South Dakota’s law banning abortions, which went into effect on Friday, will greatly impact Native American women, Sierra Wolcott, a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Tribe, said.

“Reservations already tend to be quite a drive from big cities and now, women will have to cross state lines to even attempt to receive this health care,” said Wolcott, 42.

Minnesota, where abortion is legal, is the nearest state to women in East River, as South Dakotans refer to the eastern side of the state, while Colorado would be the nearest state for women in West River.

The governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, said on Sunday morning that he did not think there should be a federal law banning abortion.

“We fought for 50 years to have this returned to the states,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We’ve won that battle.” Asked whether he has concerns that Arkansas’s near total abortion ban, which is now in effect, does not include exception for rape or incest, Mr.

Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, on Sunday praised the Supreme Court decision as “a glorious day” and lauded Donald Trump for appointing more conservative justices to the court.

Officials said the building had “sustained fire and heavy smoke damage,” and released photos showing the phrases “if abortions aren’t safe neither are you” and “bans off our bodies” spray-painted on the front of the building and the sidewalk.

Abrams also weighed in on two proposals Democrats have considered in light of the latest Supreme Court decision, telling CNN that “there’s nothing sacrosanct about nine members on the United States Supreme Court” and that the filibuster should be suspended for matters of voting rights and to “protect the constitutional right to privacy and the ability of women to make choices for themselves and their bodies.”.

The poll also reported that 64 percent of respondents wanted abortion in their states to be legal in some or all cases.

Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor in Georgia, said abortion and healthcare access are the latest reasons to oust the incumbent Republican in that state.

Less than 48 hours after the Supreme Court said states could ban abortion, health care providers have noticed an increase in interest in birth control, emergency contraception and abortion pills.

Abigail Carroll, the 22-year-old founder of Abortion Access Nashville, said that some young women were stockpiling Plan B, but she cautioned people not to clear the pharmacy shelves so those who need the pills now can obtain them.

Even before the Supreme Court ruling, abortion pills were becoming more popular.

In 2020, more than half of the abortions in the United States were medication abortions, according to a report by the Guttmacher Institute, which supports access to abortion.

Conservative states that have banned medication abortion will probably find it difficult to enforce: Many patients choose the procedure because it is less expensive, less invasive and affords more privacy than surgical abortions.

Kiki Freedman, the chief executive of Hey Jane, a start-up that provides telemedicine abortions to women in six states, said patient demand doubled after the court’s decision to overturn Roe v.

Abortions are still legal in Tennessee, but the ruling allows the state to effectively ban abortion in the next 30 days.

The Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, which had been operating in Charleston, W.Va., since 1973, had ended all appointments, fearing that a law from the 1800s that criminalized the procedure was suddenly in effect again after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

“When I went to bed, I had my appointment and everything was set, and then today it’s like pre-1973,” the woman said, speaking on condition of anonymity because she feared her parents would disown her if they knew she was planning to have an abortion.

It is a scene that was playing out across the United States this weekend in the nine states with trigger laws, which quickly outlawed abortion, as well as in West Virginia and Wisconsin where officials are trying to determine whether century-old bans may now be valid again.

The attorney general in West Virginia said on Friday that he would soon issue an opinion on the legal status of abortion in his state.

In Arkansas, where a trigger law banning abortions went into effect on Friday, 17 patients had been scheduled for abortions on Friday at Little Rock Family Planning Services, but none were performed before the Supreme Court’s decision shut down operations.

In Milwaukee, women who called the Affiliated Medical Services abortion clinic were met with a recorded message that said abortions were no longer available.

“We are saddened by this decision and how it will impact women everywhere,” the message said, suggesting patients travel to Illinois or Minnesota, where abortions are still legal.

Maharry said the facility had been inundated with calls since the Supreme Court’s decision, and that they were looking to hire additional staff members to prepare for 20,000 to 30,000 more patients coming from outside of the state each year.

Then, she said, she quickly went into “survival mode,” researching which states were banning abortion and where she could travel to get one.

Abortion has become or will soon become illegal in more than a dozen states whose legislatures had passed so-called trigger laws, allowing for bans shortly after the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v.

But abortion rights are also in jeopardy in other states because of older bans criminalizing abortion, some of which were written before the Civil War.

Two of the states, Michigan and Wisconsin, have Democratic governors who favor abortion access and polling that shows a majority of residents do, too.

“Every district attorney in the state is going to be empowered to potentially investigate miscarriages to test the limits of the law and see if they can put doctors in prison,” said State Senator Kelda Roys, a Democrat in Wisconsin.

In Wisconsin, clinics in Milwaukee and Madison had already paused scheduling appointments for abortion procedures next week in anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling; after its decision came on Friday morning, all of the state’s clinics stopped providing abortions entirely.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights, eight states still have abortion bans on the books that predate Roe v.

Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, filed a lawsuit in April asking the Michigan Supreme Court to resolve whether the State Constitution protects the right to abortion.

There is also a pre-Roe ban in West Virginia, but experts said it was unclear whether that or newer state laws that put fewer restrictions on abortion would take effect.

Gracie Skogman, the legislative director for Wisconsin Right to Life, said she hoped the 1849 law “is enforceable and saves lives here in Wisconsin, but we also do expect that there will be legal challenges.” On Friday, the organization said “Wisconsin is in powerful position to defend preborn life due to our pre-Roe statute.”.

Laws banning abortion in the 19th century were typically the result of an effort to regulate how medicine was practiced, which medicines could be distributed and who was providing drugs that could cause abortion, historians said.

James Mohr, a professor at the University of Oregon whose book “Abortion in America” details the history of abortion in the United States, said 19th-century laws banning abortion were passed not for political reasons, but because of pressure from elite physicians, who were concerned that people who called themselves doctors were performing abortions without training.

After states passed abortion bans, he said, “It would appear that the practice of abortion continued just about the way it always had.”.

Lauren MacIvor Thompson, an assistant professor of history and interdisciplinary studies at Kennesaw State University in Georgia who studies abortion history, said that recent laws banning abortion were far more restrictive than those passed well over a century ago.

In a recent poll conducted by Marquette Law School, 58 percent of state residents said abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

Nine states now ban abortions in most cases after laws took effect in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and Wisconsin on Friday, following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v.

West Virginia has a law on the books from before Roe banning abortions, and the state attorney general said he would soon offer an opinion to state legislators on how to proceed.

And legislators in several states are planning special sessions to propose new laws to halt abortion access.

There are currently no abortion bans that attempt to prosecute women who cross state lines to seek an abortion.

Both Texas and Oklahoma recently passed abortion bans that allow private citizens to sue people who perform abortions or who otherwise help someone get one.

Many organizations are still encouraging patients who cannot seek an abortion in their home state to travel across state lines to receive care, including a handful of companies that have pledged to cover travel expenses for employees who need abortions.

Taking pills to end a pregnancy accounts for a majority of abortions in the United States, both legal and not

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v

About half of the women who get legal abortions in the United States (and three-quarters in Europe)

Wade and give individual states the choice of banning or allowing abortions will most immediately affect the 13 states that have trigger laws

Wade has been overturned by the Supreme Court before abortions are prohibited

It is expected to go into effect 30 days after the Supreme Court ruling

A bill in Tennessee is expected to go into effect about 30 days after the Supreme Court ruling

The law would ban abortions in the state, with exceptions to prevent the death or serious injury of a pregnant woman

In Texas, a law banning abortions is expected to go into effect 30 days after the Supreme Court decision, with no exceptions for rape or incest

A law in Utah went into effect on Friday, banning abortions with exceptions for preventing death or serious injury to the mother, cases of rape or incest, or the possibility of severe birth defects

In Wyoming, a law banning abortions is expected to go into effect within 30 days of the Supreme Court’s decision

By a 7-to-2 vote, the Supreme Court in Roe v

The court said states could not ban abortions before fetal viability, the point at which the fetus can survive outside the womb

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a strong supporter of abortion rights who died in 2020, expressed qualms about Roe over the years

“The court bit off more than it could chew,” she said in 2009, for instance, in remarks after a speech at Princeton University