Abortion in Hawaii

66% of adults in Hawaii said in a 2014 poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

[1] The 2023 American Values Atlas reported that, in their most recent survey, 79% of people from Hawaii said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

In 2017, women in rural parts of the state had trouble accessing abortion services because of lack of clinics and costs to travel.

Many of the state's poor, rural women rely on Title X services that provide family planning assistance, including prenatal carry.

Under Donald Trump, these dollars have been cut in Hawaii, leaving poor and rural women particularly vulnerable when it comes to the ability to access prenatal care.

[4] In March 1970, not long before the Supreme Court made their decision in Roe v. Wade, Hawaii became the first state in the US to decriminalize abortion by removing all requirements to justify having the procedure done.

"[14][15] The US Supreme Court's decision in 1973's Roe v. Wade ruling meant the state could no longer regulate abortion in the first trimester.

[6] However, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, No.

[8] Demographics of women seeking abortions in Hawaii that year said that 47% were white, 21% were Japanese, 10% were Hawaiian, 8.4% were Filipino, 5.0% were Chinese, 54% had never been married, 51% had never been pregnant before, 71% were in a relationship, 20% were teenagers.

[26] out-of-state residents After Hawaii legalized abortion in 1970, the number of live births of children with Down syndrome decreased.

[4] Women from the state participated in marches supporting abortion rights as part of a #StoptheBans movement in May 2019.