Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, cutting off access to abortion and reproductive care for millions of Americans, employers have been forced to fill in the gaps, providing legal support, travel stipends and advocacy on behalf of their employees. It hasn’t been easy — and it may get even harder in the wake of the upcoming November midterm elections.
Currently, 16 states have total bans on abortions, and five additional states have bans on the procedure for pregnancies ranging from six-20 weeks. Almost half of all states in the U.S. have some sort of restriction in place, and in states where the abortions are available, access is extremely limited — even before Roe v. Wade was overturned, there were six states with just a single abortion clinic. Since June, at least 43 additional clinics have closed in states with bans on abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research NGO.
