State legislatures play a key role in determining whether women can access reproductive health care - including safe, legal abortion.  Pro-choice legislators work to pass laws that promote pro-choice goals, such as giving young people medically accurate sex education and making sure women have better access to birth control.  Anti-choice lawmakers, however, are mounting aggressive campaigns to undermine women’s reproductive freedom and interfere with our personal decisions.

Between 1995 and 2007, states enacted 557 anti-choice legislative measures. Since President Bush took office in 2001, state legislatures have considered almost 3,700 anti-choice measures; 293 of these have been enacted. 

Check out our easy-to-use resources below to learn about choice-related laws in your state and whether politicians in your state are actively creating new legislation that will threaten or protect a woman’s right to choose.

Who Decides? The Status of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States
Click here to see what reproductive choice-related laws are on the books in your state.

Who Decides? State Bill Tracker
Click here to find out what reproductive choice-related legislation is pending in your state.