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In the period between 1972 and 1974, Texas had the highest illegal abortion death rate in the United States with a rate of 62 deaths per million live births. [123] In the same period, Texas and New York State had the largest number of illegal abortion deaths.
As of 2021, 20% of medical schools did not report providing curricular related content to abortion. [23] In the year 2022, it was projected that of that year's class of medical residents, 70.77% of the 129,295 (91,502) US medical students have medical training restricted by state laws, due to highly restrictive abortion laws.
The Texas Legislature banned abortion care as early as five weeks into pregnancy in September 2021, nearly a year before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — the case that protected a ...
The new study compared infant death rates in Texas from 2018 to 2022 to those of 28 other states. ... Infant deaths in Texas rose by nearly 13% the year after SB8 was passed, from 1,985 in 2021 to ...
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.
During the state's first year banning the procedure, data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission showed six children aged 11 or younger, two children aged 12-13 and nearly 30 children ...
In other words, these abortion rates reflect the rate at which U.S. women of reproductive age have an abortion each year. [309] In 2004, the rates of abortion by ethnicity in the U.S. were 50 abortions per 1,000 black women, 28 abortions per 1,000 Hispanic women, and 11 abortions per 1,000 white women. [310] [311]
An increase in infant deaths followed Texas' anti-abortion heartbeat law, study shows. ... SB 8 became Texas law Sept. 1, 2021, and less than a year later the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v ...