US women having abortions at the same rate as before ban: New study

A survey shows women successful the US are getting astir authorities bans by utilizing telehealth to get termination pills.

Women successful the United States who unrecorded successful states that person banned abortions are inactive getting them astatine a akin complaint compared to earlier the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, according to a caller study.

Women are travelling to different states for the process and progressively utilizing telehealth to person abortion pills mailed to them according to a #WeCount report, released connected Tuesday by the Society of Family Planning that advocates for termination access.

“The termination bans are not eliminating the request for abortion,” said Ushma Upadhyay, a University of California nationalist wellness societal idiosyncratic and a co-chair of the #WeCount survey. “People are jumping implicit these hurdles due to the fact that they person to,” she added.

The #WeCount survey created a snapshot by surveying termination trends conscionable earlier Roe was overturned. It recovered speedy changes close aft the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs v Jackson ruling that ended the nationalist close to abortion, putting the contented into the hands of the states.

The fig of abortions successful states with bans astatine each stages of gestation fell to adjacent zero. It besides plummeted successful states wherever bans footwear successful astir six weeks of pregnancy, which is earlier galore women cognize they are pregnant.

But nationally the numbers are antithetic – astir the aforesaid level oregon somewhat higher than earlier the ruling. The survey estimates astir 98,000 abortions occurred each period successful the archetypal fractional of 2024, up from the 81,000 monthly from April done December 2022 and 88,000 successful 2023.

In fact, #WeCount survey recovered women successful states with bans passim gestation were getting abortions successful akin numbers arsenic they were successful 2020.

It shows that women are moving astir the bans and progressively choosing telehealth prescribers. Those providers got a boost erstwhile immoderate Democratic-controlled states past twelvemonth began implementing laws to support them from prosecution.

A large supplier of the telehealth pills is the Massachusetts Abortion Access Project. Co-founder Angel Foster said the radical prescribed to astir 500 patients a month, mostly successful states with bans, since it launched successful September 2023. It expects to summation abortions to 1,500 to 2,000 a period with a caller exemplary that lowers costs to patients.

“There’s an irony successful what’s happened successful the post-Dobbs landscape,” Foster said. “In immoderate places, termination attraction is much accessible and affordable than it was,” she said.

There person been nary large ineligible challenges to laws that support termination providers from prescribing pills successful states wherever it is restricted oregon banned, but termination opponents person tried to get 1 of the main pills removed from the market.

Earlier this year, the US Supreme Court unanimously preserved entree to the termination drug, mifepristone. It ruled that anti-abortion rights doctors could not situation the national support of the drug.

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