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Related: About this forumDespite state bans, abortions increase nationwide measured one year after Dobbs
https://dnyuz.com/2023/10/24/despite-state-bans-legal-abortions-didnt-fall-nationwide-in-year-after-dobbs/In the year after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion, something unexpected happened: The total number of legal abortions in the United States did not fall. Instead, it appeared to increase slightly, by about 0.2 percent, according to the first full-year count of abortions provided nationwide.
This finding came despite the fact that 14 states banned all abortions, and seven imposed new limits on them. Even as those restrictions reduced the legal abortion rate to near zero in some states, there were large increases in places where abortions remained legal. Researchers said they were driven by the expansion of telemedicine for mail-order abortion pills, increased options and assistance for women who traveled, and a surge of publicity about ways to get abortions.
The response by abortion providers and activists to the end of Roe v. Wade, it seems, has resulted in more access to abortion in states where it’s still legal — not just for women traveling from states with bans but also for women living there.
Still, new bans and restrictions have had far-reaching effects. Many women, especially in the South, have turned to methods outside the U.S. medical system or carried their pregnancies to term, researchers said. These women are likely to be poor, teenagers or immigrants, and to have young children or jobs that don’t give them time off.
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Despite state bans, abortions increase nationwide measured one year after Dobbs (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Oct 2023
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. And the children will end up destitute, but TPTB does not care about them.
peppertree
(22,850 posts)2. To say nothing of back-alley abortions - which don't show up in the data
Up to a few hundred thousand annually by now, no doubt - with higher maternal mortality rates to show for it.