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Many of these deaths were due to fetal abnormalities; deaths due to birth defects went up 23%, as the Texas Heartbeat Act bans all abortions after six weeks, with no exceptions for rape, incest or fetal abnormalities. "In the absence of an abortion ban, pregnant people that receive a diagnosis of a fetal anomaly would be counseled on the option ...
For the period 2013 – 2019, the rate of mortality from legal abortion procedures in the US was 0.43 abortion-related deaths per 100,000 reported legal abortions, lower than the rates for previous 5-year periods. [324] In 2019, there were four identified deaths related to abortion in the US, out of 625,000 abortions. [324]
In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows.
Abortion statistics are commonly presented as the number of abortions, the abortion rate (the number of abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44), and the abortion ratio. The Guttmacher Institute defines the abortion ratio as the number of abortions per 100 pregnancies ending in an abortion or a live birth, excluding miscarriages, [ 1 ] and the ...
In states with abortion restrictions, the maternal death rate increased twice as fast between 2018 and 2020 than in states without such restrictions, according to a 2022 report from the ...
A Texas woman died after not receiving proper medical care for a miscarriage due to the state’s strict abortion ban — the 5th case that ProPublica has reported where a death occurred as a ...
Among Hispanic women, the rate of women dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after increased from 14.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2019 to 18.9 in 2022.
Some analysts have estimated that the cumulative number of abortions in the United States may have reached a hundred million [2] and that up to two million abortions occur annually. [3] The Soviet Union had more than 200 million reported abortions throughout its history according to the Johnstons Archive. [ 4 ]