Associated Press
Abortion has become slightly more common despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled states, and the legal and political fights over its future are not over yet.
It has been two and a half years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states to implement bans.
The policies and their impact have been in flux ever since the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Here’s a look at data on where things stand:
Abortions are slightly more common now than before Dobbs.
Overturning Roe and enforcing abortion bans has changed how women obtain abortions in the U.S.
But one thing it hasn’t done is put a dent in the number of abortions being obtained.
There have been slightly more monthly abortions across the country recently than there were in the months leading up to the June 2022 ruling, even as the number in states with bans dropped to near zero.
“Abortion bans don’t actually prevent abortions from happening,” said Ushma Upadhyay, a public health social scientist at the University of California San Francisco.
But, she said, they do change care.
For women in some states, there are significant obstacles to getting abortions — and advocates say that low-income, minority and immigrant women are least likely to be able to get them when they want.
For those living in states with bans, the ways to access abortion are through travel or abortion pills.
Pills become a bigger part of the equation — and the legal questions
As the bans swept in, abortion pills became a bigger part of the equation.
They were involved in about half the abortions before Dobbs. More recently, it’s been closer to two-thirds of them, according to research by the Guttmacher Institute.
The uptick of that kind of abortion, usually involving a combination of two drugs, was underway before the ruling.
But now, it’s become more common for pill prescriptions to be made by telehealth. By the Summer of 2024, about 1 in 10 abortions was via pills prescribed via telehealth to patients in states where abortion is banned.
As a result, the pills are now at the center of battles over abortion access.
This month, Texas sued a New York doctor for prescribing pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine. There’s also an effort by Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri to roll back their federal approvals and treat them as “controlled dangerous substances” and a push for the federal government to start enforcing a 19th-century federal law to ban mailing them.
Travel for abortion has increased
Clinics have closed or halted abortions in states with bans.
But a network of efforts to get women seeking abortions to places where they’re legal has strengthened, and travel for abortion is now routine.
The Guttmacher Institute found that more than twice as many Texas residents obtained abortions in 2023 in New Mexico as New Mexico residents did. And as many Texans received them in Kansas as Kansans.
Abortion funds, which benefited from “rage giving“ in 2022, have helped pay the costs for many abortion-seekers. But some funds have had to cap how much they can give.
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December 29, 2024 at 3:14 pm
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PeterH
December 29, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Abortions have been occurring for tens of thousands of years! Making the procedure illegal only makes the procedure less safe. Government cannot stop abortions. Less skilled midwives perform abortions every day in Florida.
MarvinM
December 29, 2024 at 9:27 pm
Florida law allows for people to kill other people if they believe those people are going to kill them, or inflict great bodily harm upon them (skip to (2) if you can’t be bothered to read the rest of the Florida statute).
**Title XLVI CRIMES – Chapter 776
JUSTIFIABLE USE OF FORCE
776.012 Use or threatened use of force in defense of person.—
(1) A person is justified in using or threatening to use force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other’s imminent use of unlawful force. A person who uses or threatens to use force in accordance with this subsection does not have a duty to retreat before using or threatening to use such force.
(2) A person is justified in using or threatening to use deadly force if he or she reasonably believes that using or threatening to use such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony. A person who uses or threatens to use deadly force in accordance with this subsection does not have a duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground if the person using or threatening to use the deadly force is not engaged in a criminal activity and is in a place where he or she has a right to be. **
By just removing some words in (2) and keeping all the rest in order, we get:
A person is justified in using deadly force if she reasonably believes that using such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to herself.
Doesn’t say she needs a doctor to tell her a fetus is going to kill her, doesn’t mean she has to get two physicians to attest that she is in imminent danger of death, all it says is that in order for her to use deadly force, she needs to reasonably believe that using such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm.
BTW, great bodily harm can be interpreted as a threat to a woman’s future fertility.
When Roe v. Wade was still in effect, women and doctors did not have to worry about trying to defend that. The choice was left, as it should be, up to the woman, her health care providers, her family and faith leaders as she chooses to have them involved in the decision. Not the freakin’ government!
Women should not have to invoke “Stand Your Ground” laws in order to obtain an abortion, but if that’s what they are going to have to do in the future, that’s what they are going to have to do.
I sure hope any of you who thought George Zimmerman was within his rights to take Trayvon Martin’s life because of the threat to his life will also agree that many women who have abortions are not guilty of murder, just as George Zimmerman was not found guilty of murder. Yes, he took a person’s life. But it was adjudicated that it was not murder because a jury determined he was just trying to protect his own life.