Number of abortions barely declined after Roe v. Wade was overturned, CDC says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Scripps News

Posted 39 minutes ago


Despite a wave of state abortion bans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the number of abortions in the U.S. dropped just 2% that year.

The findings come from a new surveillance report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, its first since the landmark case was overturned. The number dropped from about 622,000 abortions in 2021 to 609,000 in 2022, according to the data.

The vast majority took place before nine weeks of pregnancy and more than 70% were early medication abortions, which was consistent with numbers before Roe v. Wade was overturned, the CDC said. Over 6% of abortions took place 14 to 20 weeks into pregnancy, and about 1% took place at or after 21 weeks of pregnancy, according to the report.

Women in their 20s accounted for more than half of abortions and nearly 60% of the patients had also previously given birth, the CDC data said.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/abortion/number-of-abortions-barely-declined-after-roe-v-wade-was-overturned-cdc-says

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Link to CDC REPORT - Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2022

[LizBeth]

1. So simply allowed women having miscarriages to die in hospitals while medical care

was denied.

[jvill]

2. It was never about abortions; it's about forced birth as a means of terrorizing POC and reinforcing command & control.

[HereForTheParty]

3. Huh?

Roe wasn't about access to abortion? It affects women of all races.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. Women with money can afford to travel to a legal state

Poor women are disproportionately women of color. Women who have no health insurance are also disproportionately women of color.

[HereForTheParty]

8. Yet there are poor white women also without access

This was an attack on women of all colors.

[GreenWave]

5. Those monsters have not yet figured out how to make it genocidal.

I suppose that is the end game.

[Timeflyer]

4. At least medication abortion is still available, for those who can access it.

Many Christofascists would be okay with bringing back the horror of wire coat hangers, back-alley abortions, just as they are with pregnant women bleeding out in hospital parking lots.

[Grins]

7. The flip-side...

The forced birth “Christians” will take that as an incentive to double-down.

[wolfie001]

9. I'd love to read investigative reporting on the wealthy and how they provide this service in Texas, Florida

And all those other RW religious states. I'll bet there's hundreds/more? going unreported. Special hospital units assigned these tasks. We'll never know because of the tie-in to religion and wealth. I'm pretty sure this exists. Do they just travel to Blue states? Fly first class? Rich college kids having "accidents"? Come on