Abortion has been legal in the United States for nearly 50 years but remains an emotional and bitterly contentious issue and access to the procedure varies from state to state.
The Supreme Court is to hear arguments on Monday challenging a Texas law that prohibits abortion after six weeks, before many women even know they are pregnant.The US Supreme Court ruled in its landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade that access to abortion is a woman's constitutional right, striking down state laws that restricted the procedure.
Individual states retained the right to enact laws protecting a woman's health so long as they did not impose an "undue burden" on access to abortion of a non-viable fetus.With "undue burden" being subject to interpretation, a number of conservative US states have imposed a patchwork of restrictions on abortion, forcing many facilities to close their doors.
Money is another factor. Some 10 states prohibit private insurance companies from reimbursing for abortions while 15 allow public funds to be used to pay for the procedure for women who cannot afford it.There were more than 862,000 abortions in the United States in 2017, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an organization which supports access to contraception and abortion.That number corresponds to 13.
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