13 states have already enacted trigger laws banning abortion if row were to be overturned. Missouri was the first one to go ahead and enact their trigger law. Utah's trigger law banning abortions took effect this evening. Oklahoma, the womb is now in oklahoma, the safest place for a child to be.
The Supreme Court’s decision was most immediately felt in states that pegged abortion bans to the fall of Roe v. Wade.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with Matt Collette and Amina Al-Sadi, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited.
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