In several states, abortion access looks very different today than it did last week.

Right. The Supreme Court's decision overturning decades of abortion rights precedent triggered laws in several states, and already there are legal fights brewing between states with differing laws.

NPR correspondent Sarah McCammon covers abortion rights policy.

Sarah, the Supreme Court issued its decision on Friday overturning Roe v. Wade.

Now that we're starting a brand-new week, where do we stand this morning?

Well, already roughly a dozen states have said they're implementing abortion bans in response to the ruling, and many others have restrictions in place that could soon take effect.

We're expecting legal battles over some of those.

Already Planned Parenthood is suing to challenge Utah's trigger law under the state constitution there.

And I'm hearing about a lot of confusion in some states that have multiple bans on the books.

For example, in addition to the six-week ban that took effect last year in Texas, that state has a trigger law written to take effect 30 days after the decision overturning Roe, and Texas also has a pre-Roe v. Wade ban.

So it's not clear which law is in effect there.

Bottom line, we're already seeing the kind of patchwork abortion laws that have been predicted for a long time.

Now, you're - been traveling to states where this kind of tension is already playing out.

What have you been seeing?

Yeah. I mean, for a real picture of what this looks like, I spent some time earlier this month along the Illinois-Missouri border, two states with very different political climates.

Missouri lawmakers had passed multiple restrictions, and it was already difficult to get an abortion there.

There was just one clinic left in the state, in the St. Louis area, and it was doing just a few procedures every couple of weeks.

So in 2019, Planned Parenthood opened up a large clinic across the state line in Illinois.

They are already seeing several thousand patients a year and preparing for many more now.

Now, Missouri was one of the first states to enact its trigger ban on Friday.

And much of the Midwest is likely to be without abortion services soon, which means more patients are likely to travel to places like Illinois.

So how are opponents of abortion rights responding to that?

I mean, can they do anything to stop patients from traveling?

I mean, it remains to be seen. They would like to.

I talked with Republican state Representative Mary Elizabeth Coleman at her home in a suburb near St. Louis.

She sponsored a proposal earlier this year in Missouri's Legislature that would have empowered individuals to sue anyone who helps a Missouri resident get an abortion out of state.

That's something that she describes as, quote, "abortion tourism."

It's one of those phrases that really describes what I think we're going to be seeing and certainly what we have already started to see, which is states that are really catering to providing abortions to residents of states that have no abortion access.

And so there's a direct targeting that's taking place into pro-life states.

Now, Coleman's proposal did not advance, but it could offer a preview of what's to come.

Farah Diaz-Tello is with the abortion rights legal advocacy group If/When/How, and she says this kind of tactic raises a lot of questions about federalism and the Constitution.

As somebody who believes in the Constitution, who believes in the rule of law, it is somewhat frightening to see, you know, states preparing to enforce or not enforce one another's laws.

Sarah, based on your recent reporting from Missouri and Illinois, what do you expect to see as more states enact abortion bans?

Well, more legislative efforts like I described.

But we're in the early days here, and I would just expect many more clashes between states with now very different policies on abortion.

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