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Abortion in New Mexico is legal at all stages of pregnancy. The number of abortion clinics in New Mexico has declined over the years, with 26 in 1982, 20 in 1992 and 11 in 2014. There were 4,500 legal abortions in 2014. There were 7 facilities providing abortion in New Mexico in 2017, and 6 of those were clinics.
In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state with relatively strict controls on abortion, 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. [28]
As Source previously reported, abortion opponents in Texas pressured New Mexico officials to pass the ordinances as part of a larger legal strategy based on the obscure federal Comstock Act of ...
Abortion is legal in New Mexico, which has become a destination for women seeking abortions from Texas and other states that have banned the procedure following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in ...
The number of abortions in New Mexico, for example, surged by 257% between 2020 and 2023, according to the new report. New Mexico borders both Oklahoma and Texas, states where abortion is banned ...
This color-coded map illustrates the current legal status of elective-specific abortion procedures in each of the individual states, U.S. territories, and federal district. [a] A colored border indicates a more stringent restriction or ban that is blocked by legal injunction.
New Mexico’s highest court is considering whether a 19th-century federal law allows local governments to ban abortion despite some of the most permissive state laws in the country. The state ...
Abortion is legal in New York. New York does not require a minor to notify a parent or guardian in order to obtain an abortion. [151] New York is known in the U.S. as a reproductive sanctuary state. This means that abortion is legal, and seen as health care provided by the state.