Within hours of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in their Dobbs decision, abortion clinics halted services in multiple states with trigger laws. Trigger laws are previously passed legislation that made abortion illegal in that state if and when Roe v. Wade was overturned. Some states had laws that took effect immediately, while others had waiting periods of 30 days or more before taking effect.

Since then, the status of abortion access across the US has descended into chaos as clinics, courts, legislators, providers, and patients try to make sense of a complicated patchwork of overlapping and sometimes contradictory legislation. Unfortunately, that includes some laws that date back over a century but haven’t been used since Roe occurred in 1973.

Below we’ve provided an overview of the current state of affairs, but the info below will inevitably change in the coming months.

• Alabama: All abortions are banned, per a 2019 law.

• Alaska: Abortion is legal.

• Arizona: Abortion is legal for up to 15 weeks gestation, based on a law that supersedes a pre-Roe abortion ban.

• Arkansas: All abortions are banned, per a trigger law now in effect.

• California: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• Colorado: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• Connecticut: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• Delaware: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• Florida: Abortion is currently legal up to 15 weeks gestation.

• Georgia: Abortion will likely become illegal after 6 weeks gestation, based on a 2019 law pending in the courts that will likely take effect soon.

• Hawaii: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• Idaho: Abortion is expected to become illegal in late August, except in cases of rape, incest, or threat to the pregnant person’s life, based on a 2020 trigger law that takes effect 30 days after Roe is overturned. Planned Parenthood has filed a suit to stop it.

• Illinois: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• Indiana: Abortion is currently legal. The governor has called a special legislative session to pass anti-abortion laws.

• Iowa: Abortion is currently legal. A previous 2018 law banning abortion at 6 weeks gestation that was ruled unconstitutional could return, however.

• Kansas: Abortion is currently legal. The state will hold a referendum in August on a state constitutional amendment to remove abortion protections.

• Kentucky: Abortion is illegal, per a trigger ban that took effect immediately on June 24.

• Louisiana: Abortion was illegal for three days and is now legal again, but this could change in July. The state’s trigger law took effect immediately but was blocked by a state court three days later. A hearing will occur on July 8.

• Maine: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• Maryland: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• Massachusetts: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• Michigan: Abortion is currently legal.

• Minnesota: Abortion is legal.

• Mississippi: Abortion will become illegal any day now, per a trigger ban that takes effect when the attorney general certifies the Dobbs decision.

• Missouri: Abortion is illegal, per a trigger law that took effect immediately on June 24.

• Montana: Abortion is legal and protected by the state constitution. Some observers worry the Republican governor and legislature may seek an abortion ban.

• Nebraska: Abortion is legal.

• Nevada: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• New Hampshire: Abortion is legal.

• New Jersey: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• New Mexico: Abortion is legal.

• New York: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• North Carolina: Abortion is currently legal.

• North Dakota: Abortion is legal but will become illegal within 30 days of the state legislative council approving the attorney general’s certification of the Dobbs decision.

• Ohio: Abortion is legal up until 6 weeks gestation only.

• Oklahoma: Abortion is illegal, per a law passed this year and a previous trigger law.

• Oregon: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• Pennsylvania: Abortion is currently legal.

• Rhode Island: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• South Carolina: Abortion is legal but will likely be limited to 6 weeks gestation any day now, per a law blocked by the courts that the governor is seeking to enforce.

• South Dakota: Abortion is illegal, per a trigger law that took effect immediately on June 24.

• Tennessee: Abortion is legal but will become illegal on July 24, per a trigger law.

• Texas: Abortion is legal until 6 weeks gestation or until fetal cardiac activity can be detected, but a trigger law is expected to take effect within 30 days.

• Utah: Abortion is legal until July 11, when the state’s trigger law will take effect, per a state court’s temporary restraining order that delayed the law from taking effect for 14 days.

• Vermont: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• Virginia: Abortion is legal.

• Washington: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• Washington, DC: Abortion is legal and will remain so per state law.

• West Virginia: No abortions are available currently. The state’s sole abortion provider halted all services after the Dobbs ruling and is waiting for the state attorney general and other state leaders to determine whether an 1882 law outlawing abortion is still enforceable.

• Wisconsin: No abortions are available currently. The state’s abortion clinics halted services after the Dobbs ruling because of an 1849 law outlawing abortion that wasn’t removed after Roe. The Democratic state attorney general and several district attorneys have said they will not enforce the law. The Democratic governor has said he will grant clemency to any doctors prosecuted under the law. However, other district attorneys could theoretically charge physicians using the law. A lawsuit challenging the 1849 law is expected soon.

• Wyoming: Abortion is currently legal but will become illegal within the month after the governor certifies the Dobbs decision.