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They ask for data for the two most recent years, and they estimate abortion statistics for the missing year by interpolation. [1] 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]
Planned Parenthood has consistently maintained that federal money received by Planned Parenthood is not used to fund abortion services, but anti-abortion activists have argued that the federal funding frees up other resources that are, in turn, used to provide abortions. [89] Planned Parenthood is the largest single provider of abortions in the ...
To her relief, she said, Planned Parenthood gave her a prepaid gas card and discounted her procedure. Abortion rights demonstrator Amanda Herring and her 1-year-old son, Abraham, outside the ...
The American Birth Control League was founded by Margaret Sanger in 1921; it would become Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942. [76] [77] By the 1930s, licensed physicians performed an estimated 800,000 abortions a year. [78]
Planned Parenthood is asking for a court ruling that it says would allow the organization to begin offering abortions after voters approved Amendment 3 last month.
For years, abortion clinics in the Kansas City region have served a large number of patients from Missouri, which now bans almost all abortions. ... Last year, Planned Parenthood began offering ...
On October 13, 2015, Planned Parenthood announced it would no longer accept reimbursement for the costs of collecting and shipping fetal tissue to research labs. Citing an "anti-abortion agenda" by some in Congress, Planned Parenthood stated the move was designed to remove a reason for politically motivated attacks. [15] [16]
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Planned Parenthood announces it is resuming abortions in Wisconsin,” Sept. 14, 2023 USA TODAY, “Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional ...