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'''Abortion in West Virginia''' is illegal except in cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormalities, and when the mother’s life is at risk from a pregnancy.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/09/16/politics/west-virginia-governor-signs-abortion-bill/index.html| title=West Virginia governor signs bill into law banning abortion with few exceptions}}</ref>
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|title= ''West Virginia Code'', § 61-2-8<ref>{{cite web |title=§61-2-8. Abortion; penalty |url=http://www.wvlegislature.gov/wvcode/ChapterEntire.cfm?chap=61&art=2§ion=8#2 |website=West Virginia Code |publisher=[[West Virginia Legislature]] |access-date=February 27, 2021}}</ref>}}
In ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' (1973,) the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] ruled that states could no longer regulate abortion in the first trimester.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Buell|first=Samuel|date=1991-01-01|title=Criminal Abortion Revisited|url=https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/2174|journal=New York University Law Review|volume=66|issue=6 |pages=1774–1831|pmid=11652642 }}</ref> (However, the Supreme Court overturned ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' in ''[[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]]'', {{ussc|597||2022|docket=19-1392}} later in 2022.<ref name="cnn decision">{{cite web |url = https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/politics/dobbs-mississippi-supreme-court-abortion-roe-wade/index.html |title = Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade |first =
The [[West Virginia Legislature]] passed the Women's Right To Know Act in 2002, requiring abortion providers to read a counselling script to women seeking an abortion.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/paz4bv/last-clinics-seven-states-one-abortion-clinic-left|title=Seven states have only one remaining abortion clinic. We talked to the people keeping them open.|last=McCann|first=Allison|date=May 23, 2017|website=Vice News|access-date=May 23, 2019}}</ref> These materials include details on fetal development by week and a list of "psychological risks" of the procedure, including guilt, depression, suicidal thoughts or acts, and "chronic relationship problems".<ref>{{cite web |title=Women's Right to Know Home Page |url=http://www.wvdhhr.org/wrtk/ |publisher=West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |access-date=February 27, 2021}}</ref> Earlier editions of the script labelled the psychological risks as "[[post-traumatic stress disorder]]", in addition to containing scientifically unsupported warnings about a link between abortion and [[breast cancer]].<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.wvdhhr.org/wrtk |title=Women's Right to Know Home Page |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420212400/http://www.wvdhhr.org/wrtk/ |archive-date=April 20, 2008 |access-date=February 27, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2012/05/do_abortions_cause_breast_cancer_kansas_state_house_abortion_act_invokes_shaky_science_for_political_gain_.html|title=Do abortions cause breast cancer? Kansas State House Abortion Act invokes shaky science for political gain|work=Slate Magazine|date=23 May 2012 |access-date=28 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/09/4/gpr090406.html#t1|title=Misinformed Consent: The Medical Accuracy of State-Developed Abortion Counseling Materials|date=25 October 2006}}</ref>
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