A “six-week ban” on abortion is emphatically not the same as a six-week window to obtain one.
“[O]bviously it provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion.”
And for those who live in places where abortion and other health care services are few and far between—or are subject to hurdles imposed by legislatures like mandatory waiting times, or just the economic and logistical challenges of daily life—that two-week timeframe is a legally-proscribed impossibility.
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