Abortion in Rhode Island

On June 19, 2019, the legal right to abortion was codified into Rhode Island law by passage of the Reproductive Privacy Act.

[6] In May 2019, Rhode Island's Senate Judiciary Committee considered a bill that would have allowed the right to an abortion to be codified into state law, before finally rejecting it.

[12] On August 27, 2019, a motion was filed in Superior Court which alleges that the Reproductive Privacy Act violated Article I, Section 2, of the Constitution of Rhode Island.

[13] These allegations are premised on plaintiffs' argument that Article I, Section 2, prohibits the General Assembly from passing any law that would grant or secure any rights relating to abortion or the funding thereof.

[20] In 2017, there was one Planned Parenthood clinic, which offered abortion services, in a state with a population of 246,389 women aged 15–49.

[24] The 2023 American Values Atlas reported that, in their most recent survey, 71% of Rhode Islanders said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

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