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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.
Hey Chicago — do you know how long laws governing abortion have been on the books in Illinois? Since Abraham Lincoln was a teenager. But, how did we get from a statute outlawing the sale of ...
(Getty Images) (Peter Dazeley via Getty Images) 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 Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF) is a non-profit organization that provides financial assistance to people seeking abortions. [1] It is affiliated with the National Network of Abortion Funds . In 2019, CAF spent $160,000 to help women to obtain abortions. [ 1 ]
In 2020, there were 930,160 abortions in the United States, an 8% increase from 2017 and the first significant rise in three decades.
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.
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]