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There was an eight percent decline in the abortion rate in Missouri between 2014 and 2017, from 4.4 to 4.0 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. From 2022 to 2024, abortions were only legal in cases of medical emergencies, with several additional laws designed to make accessing abortion services difficult.
The national abortion rate decreased from 13.2 per 1,000 women of reproductive age in April 2022 to 12.3 per 1,000 women. ... such as Missouri, post-Dobbs declines appear to be small changes, ...
A Missouri judge on Friday temporarily struck down several laws that Planned Parenthood clinics have said made access to abortion all but impossible across the state. Among the laws Jackson County ...
The state had only three abortion clinics in 2017 after years of targeted restrictions on abortion providers. The last clinic in the state closed shortly after Roe v.
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]
With passage of Amendment 3, supporters seek to strike down Missouri laws that had restricted abortion access. Lawsuit targets Missouri abortion restrictions hours after voters approve Amendment 3 ...
In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state very hostile to abortion rights, 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. [314]
Missouri abortion rights supporters hold a celebratory press conference outside the state Capitol after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that Amendment 3 can remain on the ballot.