Debate rages over access to abortion, but experts say the medical evidence makes one thing clear — it is a fundamentally safe procedure for women. The data also shows that women who receive abortions do not suffer any enduring mental or physical problems:
The AAAS held the briefing in advance of potential U.S. Supreme Court challenges to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortion legal in America.
The U.S. abortion rate has been declining for decades, said Amanda Stevenson, an assistant professor in sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.The abortion rate in 2017 was 13.5 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age, down 8% from 2014, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit reproductive health policy research group.
In recent years, about two-thirds of abortions occurred at eight weeks of pregnancy or earlier, while about 88% occurred in the first 12 weeks, Stevenson said. Only about 1.3% of abortions happen after 20 weeks.Medication abortions use the drug mifepristone to induce premature labor, and can be performed early- or late-term.
"One thing that is poorly understood by some people is that mifepristone is highly regulated like dangerous medications, even though mifepristone itself is very, very safe," Prager said."For mifepristone currently, the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] requires that a provider register to be able to dispense this medication. It is not a medication that I as a physician can write a prescription for a patient to pick up at a pharmacy.
"That's not because those who receive an abortion and those who are denied are both doing badly. In fact, both groups improve over time," Foster continued.
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