New figures show that the number of abortions increased during the first six months of 2023, compared to the same period in 2020, when the procedure was legal throughout the country.
estimated that Illinois had 18,300 more abortions this year while neighboring Missouri, Wisconsin and Kentucky had “few or no abortions” due to state-imposed bans.
Other states with abortion-restricting neighbors that saw jumps in the number of procedures included Colorado, Kansas and South Carolina. “Measuring the number of abortions that occur in the United States has always required some amount of estimation — and thus uncertainty — because of a number of complicating factors , and these challenges have only increased post-Dobbs,”According to UC Davis’ Ms. Ziegler, the conflicting reports confirm it is getting harder to estimate abortion numbers.
The Texas Heartbeat Act, which bans most abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, became law in September 2021 after the Supreme Court upheld it. That came eight months before the Dobbs ruling allowed other states to restrict abortions. Since 2021, Texas has passed additional laws protecting life from conception and banning mail-order abortion drugs but has not restricted out-of-state travel.did not offer a count for Texas but estimated that nearby New Mexico had 6,480 more abortions between January and June than in 2020.
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