Across America, six states have now signed what are being termed as ‘heartbeat bills,’ which heavily restrict abortion after five or six weeks of pregnancy, despite most women not even realising they’re pregnant until around four or five weeks.

Last week, Georgia became the sixth state to sign such a bill – joining Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota and Ohio.

The ban means that, once a doctor is able to detect a foetal heartbeat (something which usually occurs at five to six weeks of pregnancy), they will not be allowed to perform an abortion. If they do, they could face up to 99 years in prison.

However, as Stylist has already underlined in a previous report, research has consistently shown us that restricting access to safe abortions does not lower abortion rates: rather, women will be forced to seek more dangerous termination methods. Indeed, botched abortions cause about 8 to 11% of all maternal deaths in countries where abortion is illegal, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

This amounts to around 30,000 each year.

Jameela Jamil still doesn’t give a flying f**k what you think about her abortion story