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Without the ability to get an abortion in Georgia, she sent away for an abortion medication. After taking the medication, she did not fully pass all the tissue and was afraid of going to the doctor, thinking she could go to jail as performing a dilation and curettage was a felony by Georgia law. After a few days of suffering with not fully ...
English: This graph shows data on U.S. abortion rates from 1973 to 2017. The data, collected by the Guttmacher Institute, is taken from the following documents: Jones, Rachel K.; Kooistra, Kathryn (March 2011). "Abortion Incidence and Access to Services in the United States, 2008" (PDF).
For 2020, the Guttmacher Institute reported 930,160 abortions, an abortion rate of 14.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years, and 20.6 abortions per 100 pregnancies ending in abortion or live birth. [6] Graph of U.S. abortion rates from 1973 to 2020, as reported by the Guttmacher Institute [8] [1] [8] [1] [6] [8] [1] [6]
The Guttmacher Institute has created an interactive map showing how far people may have to travel for an abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court significantly weakens or overturns landmark abortion ...
Rates among white women nearly doubled — from 20 per 100,000 to 39.1. And Black women, who historically have higher chances of dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after, saw their ...
When Georgia’s six-week abortion ban went into effect in 2022, ... Texas enacted an abortion ban in 2021, and the rate of maternal deaths there increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, according to the ...
As of December 14, 2021, 39 cities in Texas had outlawed abortion within their city boundaries and declared themselves "sanctuary cities for the unborn." [206] [better source needed] The first city to do so was the city of Waskom, Texas, which enacted its local abortion ban on June 13, 2019. [207]
This effectively banned abortion in the state, which used to allow abortion up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. ... The new study compared infant death rates in Texas from 2018 to 2022 to those of 28 ...