Table. State Rankings for Cumulative Abortion Medication Searches Following SCOTUS Leak, Relative Search Volume.
State (sorted by search volume) | Relative search volume | Reproductive rights gradea |
---|---|---|
Nebraska | 100 | F |
Iowa | 70 | C |
Missouri | 44 | D |
Michigan | 43 | D |
Rhode Island | 42 | B |
Kansas | 40 | F |
Kentucky | 40 | C |
South Dakota | 40 | F |
Arizona | 39 | C |
Georgia | 39 | C |
Louisiana | 39 | D |
West Virginia | 39 | B |
Maryland | 38 | A |
Montana | 38 | B |
Ohio | 38 | C |
Oklahoma | 38 | D |
Alabama | 37 | D |
Delaware | 37 | C |
Pennsylvania | 37 | C |
Virginia | 37 | C |
Indiana | 36 | D |
Maine | 36 | C |
Massachusetts | 36 | B |
Oregon | 36 | A |
South Carolina | 36 | C |
Texas | 36 | C |
Colorado | 35 | C |
Idaho | 35 | F |
Illinois | 35 | B |
New Jersey | 35 | A |
North Carolina | 35 | C |
Tennessee | 35 | D |
Wisconsin | 35 | D |
North Dakota | 34 | C |
Arkansas | 33 | D |
California | 33 | B |
Minnesota | 33 | B |
New York | 33 | A |
Utah | 33 | C |
Vermont | 33 | A |
Washington | 33 | B |
Connecticut | 32 | A |
New Hampshire | 32 | C |
Florida | 31 | C |
Mississippi | 30 | C |
Nevada | 29 | B |
New Mexico | 28 | B |
Alaska | 27 | C |
Wyoming | 27 | C |
Hawaii | 25 | A |
Abbreviation: SCOTUS, Supreme Court of the United States.
We used the Institute for Women’s Policy Research rankings,4 which assigns each state a letter grade (A to F) based on a reproductive rights index (eg, public funding for abortions, women living in counties with an abortion survices clinician).