Here’s where abortion “trigger laws” and other restrictive laws stand in a number of states:
Restrictive abortion laws are in effect in at least four states after the court handed down its ruling: Arkansas, Missouri, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
And in Mississippi, the trigger law was certified on Monday by Republican Attorney General Lynn Fitch, according to a statement from her office. Mississippi law states that within 10 days of the state attorney general confirming Roe has been overturned, abortions are prohibited in the state. Limited exceptions are provided in cases of rape or when the procedure would preserve the pregnant person’s life. The state passed a separate 15-week abortion ban in 2018, which was the law at the center of the case the Supreme Court ruled on last month.
Awaiting state action
In Wyoming, the state’s “trigger law” takes effect five days after the governor certifies the Supreme Court’s decision.
In North Dakota, a 2007 abortion ban takes effect 30 days after the law is certified by the state attorney general to the Legislative Council, a nonpartisan arm of the state’s legislature.
Idaho, Tennessee and Texas have laws that take effect 30 days after the Supreme Court issues a judgment separate from the opinion issued last month. Attorneys general in Texas and Idaho say it could take an additional 30 days for the judgment to be issued and the laws to take effect.
Texas also has a separate abortion ban dating back to 1925, which the state’s Republican attorney general has tried to enforce since the US Supreme Court decision.
Legal fights underway
In more than a dozen states, legal fights are underway over abortion bans and limits on the procedure.
Oklahoma is one of the latest states to face new legal action challenging its abortion bans, with provider groups asking the state Supreme Court on Friday to block a criminal abortion law enacted this year, as well as a pre-Roe abortion ban that’s more than a century old.
In Louisiana, a state district judge on Monday temporarily blocked the state from “enforcing or implementing” an abortion ban that had gone into effect immediately following the Supreme Court’s ruling. The law was challenged by the Center for Reproductive Rights and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP on behalf of Hope Medical Group for Women and Medical Students for Choice, which argued that the ban is unconstitutionally vague.
In Utah, Third District Judge Andrew Stone on Monday granted a request by Planned Parenthood of Utah to issue a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the state’s trigger law. This allows abortions to continue for 14 days.
The plaintiffs argued that the two state laws violate the rights to “privacy, bodily autonomy, and self-determination” in the Kentucky Constitution. A hearing for a temporary injunction to block the laws during litigation has been scheduled for July 6, according to the ACLU, which brought the case on behalf of abortion providers.
In a verbal ruling Thursday, Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge John Cooper said he would be issuing a temporary statewide injunction that will go into effect once he signs the written order in the challenge brought by some Florida abortion providers. A spokeswoman for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis told CNN the state intends to appeal the ruling.
Pauses on other restrictive abortion bans dissolved
In addition to the so-called trigger laws taking effect, a number of states have dissolved court orders blocking enforcement of restrictive abortion laws in the days since the high court’s ruling.
In Texas, the state Supreme Court on Friday partially granted GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to stay a lower court’s order, which temporarily blocked the state’s nearly century-old abortion ban. The order allows for civil enforcement of the ban, court documents show.
But the Center for Reproductive Rights interpreted the stay to mean that the law cannot be enforced criminally. CNN reached out to Paxton to ask whether he agrees that criminal prosecutions remain stayed, but did not receive a response.
A federal judge in Alabama granted an emergency motion on June 24 to end an injunction against Alabama’s “Human Life Protection Act” after the Supreme Court issued its opinion. The motion was filed by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, who argued that the injunction the court had entered against enforcement of the act because it “contravenes clear Supreme Court precedent” was no longer in effect with the high court overturning Roe.
Ohio Attorney General David Yost announced on June 24 that the injunction blocking his state’s abortion ban was dissolved, saying in a tweet: “The Heartbeat Bill is now the law.”
The Ohio Supreme Court on Friday denied an emergency request by abortion providers in the state that the court put on hold the state’s prohibition on abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected, typically around six weeks into the pregnancy.
The providers argued that the law — which was passed in 2019 but only allowed to take effect after the US Supreme Court ended federal protections for abortion rights — violates the Ohio Constitution. The denial means the state’s six-week abortion ban can continue to be enforced while the case plays out.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
CNN’s Kelly McCleary, Holly Yan, Andy Rose, Virginia Langmaid, Jamiel Lynch, Artemis Moshtaghian, Rebekah Riess, Veronica Stracqualursi and Steve Contorno contributed to this report.
