This Year, Abortion Rates Increased In Most States, According To New Data
An analysis of new estimates reveals that the number of abortions rates in the United States in the first half of the year likely increased compared to 2020 as patients travelled to states with more lenient abortion laws from those with bans and the availability of abortion pills through telemedicine grew. Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling last year changed access to abortion worldwide and permitted more than a dozen states to prohibit or restrict the practise, new research from the Guttmacher Institute provides the most recent perspective on legal abortions rates . In response to restrictions at home, the data indicates that hundreds of women have travelled across state lines to have an abortion. Additionally, it shows a surge in abortions rates among residents of states where the procedure is permitted. “You have two forces at work,” said Caitlin Myers, an economist at Middlebury College who read the Guttmacher paper. “On the one hand, you have people trapped in ban states...