Already, thirteen states have so-called trigger laws, or abortion bans that quickly take effect after federal protections are eliminated, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.
By Sharon Bernstein and Gabriella Borter
"We felt like this was part of our responsibility - to provide services in a place where they’re really needed," said Kerns, a surgeon who teaches and practices at the University of California, San Francisco, medical school. She plans to fly to Wichita, Kansas, when her schedule allows. More than half the states in the country could soon have laws banning or severely restricting abortion following Friday's ruling.
Clinics run by Planned Parenthood in Utah, another trigger law state, said they will stay open as long as possible, hoping to use the legal system to delay or overturn bans passed by lawmakers.Lawyers representing abortion providers are coalescing around a plan to argue that privacy and equal protection rights in the constitutions of many states protect abortion without explicitly saying so.
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