These States Will Ban Abortion If Roe Is Overturned

In a matter of weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to issue a seismic opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. If a recent and unprecedented leak from the Court is correct, abortion will be heavily restricted or completely banned in about half of the U.S.’s 50 states.

But changes to legal access to abortion, while radical and widespread, will happen unevenly under a patchwork of varying state laws. Overturning Roe just means states are free to decide how to, or if, to allow access to abortion services. Sixteen...