7 States Passed Abortion Rights Ballot Measures. But Changes Won't be Like a "Light Switch," Experts Say
While former President Donald Trump’s win of the White House was a blow to many reproductive rights advocates, Election Day some wins when it came to abortion ballot measures. In seven of 10 states, voters chose to protect abortion rights.
However, that doesn’t mean abortion rights will go into effect immediately in these states, experts say.
“People kind of think that abortion access can be like a light switch, like you flip it up because the law allows you to provide abortion care, and suddenly there’s all of these clinics and providers who are able to provide care. You flip it down when abortion is restricted, and those providers are able to just pause but not go anywhere,” said Kimya Forouzan, principal state policy advisor at Guttmacher, a nonpartisan research and policy organization in reproductive health. “That’s just not the case. What we see fairly frequently when there is a change in abortion law is that it just takes a bit of time, if ever, for that infrastructure to be built back up.”
In states with restrictions or bans, many providers have left the state, and it could take a while to restore the workforce.
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