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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]
Abortion was illegal in North Dakota from 2022 to 2024, until Judge Bruce Romanick ruled that the state's abortion ban violated the Constitution of North Dakota's equality provisions. [ 160 ] [ 161 ] The law technically made exceptions to save the life of the pregnant woman, or, until 6 weeks into a pregnancy, in cases of rape or incest.
March 19, 2024 at 7:36 PM. ... 🇺🇸Where abortion rates are rising — and why. ... The number of abortions in New Mexico, for example, surged by 257% between 2020 and 2023, according to the ...
New Mexico has seen an influx of women since Texas lawmakers passed severe abortion restrictions in 2021 and the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the abortion protections of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
Demonstrators hold up signs supporting abortion rights on May 3, 2022. (Photo by Shelby Wyatt for Source NM) The New Mexico state Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that several local ...
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.
Abortion is going to remain a major issue in politics, policy and the courts in the U.S. in 2024, even though most of the states that were expected to impose restrictions have already done so. The ...