In the 100 days since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, 66 clinics in the U.S. stopped providing abortion. That’s according to a new analysis published Thursday by the Guttmacher Institute, assessing abortion access in the 15 states that have banned or severely restricted access to abortion.
“Prior to Roe being overturned, these 15 states had 79 clinics that provided abortion care,” says Rachel Jones, a principal research scientist at Guttmacher. “We found that 100 days later, this was down to 13.”
All of the 13 clinics still providing abortions are in Georgia, where abortion is banned at six weeks before many women know they are pregnant.
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