With a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, ending nearly 50 years of federal abortion protection in the United States. As a result, the right to an abortion is returned to the states. In this episode of Clarified, we take a look at what will happen across the country.Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota have trigger laws, meaning they took effect immediately when the ruling came down. The laws ban abortion outright or with limited exceptions. Idaho, Tennessee and Texas have trigger laws that ban abortion within 30 days of the ruling. Trigger laws in another seven states will take effect once a specified official certifies the decision, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights advocacy group. Those states are Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming.Some states have built-in protections to uphold abortion rights. Washington, D.C. and 16 states have laws protecting access, even after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Those states are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.Florida and Arizona recently passed bans on abortions after 15 weeks. Florida’s 15-week ban takes effect July 1, and the state’s legislature may push further. Six-week bans in South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and Iowa were previously blocked or stayed, pending the Supreme Court’s decision. Kansas, plans to hold a statewide referendum in August to eliminate abortion protections.Depending on multiple factors, such as the midterm elections and the 2024 election, the fate of abortion in North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Michigan and Wisconsin is uncertain. In the majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely — the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” In the dissenting opinion, Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan wrote, “The majority would allow States to ban abortion from conception onward because it does not think forced childbirth at all implicates a woman’s rights to equality and freedom." They added, “Today’s Court, that is, does not think there is anything of constitutional significance attached to a woman’s control of her body and the path of her life.”