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The Chicago Times published an undercover exposé on abortion in the city in 1888. One reporter managed to get a referral for an abortion with the head of the Chicago Medical Society. [9] In 1956, Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago created an anonymous committee to approve all requests for therapeutic abortions. As a result, the number of ...
From 1981 through 2017, the abortion rate fell by more than half, falling faster in Democratic administrations than Republican ones. The abortion rate fell below the 1973 rate in 2012 and continued to fall through 2017, when it stood at 13.5 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age. The abortion rate then rose from 2018 through 2020.
The rate of abortions rose by 10% in 2023, compared to 2020, according to a new report from the reproductive health organization, Guttmacher Institute.The rise comes after the Supreme Court struck ...
Abortion in the U.S. by gestational age, 2016 [319] According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2011, most (64.5%) abortions were performed by ≤8 weeks' gestation, and nearly all (91.4%) were performed by ≤13 weeks' gestation. Few abortions (7.3%) were performed between 14 and 20 weeks' gestation or at ≥21 weeks' gestation (1.4%).
The 19th takes a closer look at what the Biden administration can actually do to support abortion access beyond Jan. 20, once President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
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In 2020, there were 930,160 abortions in the United States, an 8% increase from 2017 and the first significant rise in three decades. U.S. abortion rate rises, reversing three decades of declines ...
Jill Stanek (born 1956) is an American anti-abortion activist and nurse from Illinois best known for saying "live birth abortions" were being performed at Christ Hospital in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn and the premature infants were being left to die in a utility room.