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In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state with relatively strict controls on abortion, the abortion rate by state of occurrence dropped from 4 in 1000 women aged 15–44 for 2017 to 0.1 for 2020, because 57% of abortion recipients went out of state in 2017, while 99% did so in 2020. [28]
Almost 25% of women will have had an abortion by age 45, with 20% of 30 year olds having had one. [24] In 2019, 60% of women who had abortions were already mothers, and 50% already had two or more children. [25] [26] Increased access to birth control has been statistically linked to reductions in the abortion rate. [27] [28] [29]
The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
However, women seeking abortion who are denied access to abortion have an increase in anxiety after the denial. [119] Although some studies show negative mental-health outcomes in women who choose abortions after the first trimester because of fetal abnormalities, [123] more rigorous research would be needed to show this conclusively. [124]
In 2013, among white women aged 15–19, there were abortions 60, 10 abortions for black women aged 15–19, 50 abortions for Hispanic women aged 15–19, and 380 abortions for women of all other races. [24] In 2014, 66% of adults said in a poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. [25]
This category contains articles which are related to abortion, abortion law, the abortion debate, or the history of abortion within the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
The organization was created to end the stigma against abortions in the Black community and to make abortions more accessible for Black women. [15] Avery has written and lectured widely on how race, class and sex impact women's healthcare. She has called the health discrepancies between African-American and white women a "conspiracy of silence ...
In the states of Pennsylvania, Missouri, and California, the journal article "Black-white disparities in maternal in-hospital mortality according to teaching and black-serving hospital status" discovered that between the years of 1995 to 2000, out of every 100,000 patients in a hospital, 11.5 black women died during pregnancy, and 4.8 white ...