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During the 1980s, the population of women of childbearing age grew faster than the abortion rate fell, so the annual number of abortions performed did not peak until 1990, at about 1.6 million abortions. The number of abortions generally fell from 1991 through 2017, and rose thereafter. The largest percentage decrease in the number of abortions ...
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ... In 2022, that number jumped to 90. ... according to MedPage Today. ...
Country Rate per . 1,000 women per year Number of abortions per year Year Age range Greenland 84.7 870 2022 [7] [8]: 17–64 Vietnam 64.0 1,630,000 2019 [9]: 15–49 Madagascar
The figures suggest that almost no doctors in Texas feel confident in the state’s legal exception for abortions Texas reports five abortions a month - down from 4,400 before Roe overturned in ...
The Guttmacher researchers said they would need more data to determine how the number of abortions has changed on a national scale, including estimates of self-managed abortions. However, the ...
Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, abortion rights protests were held in Austin, [195] Dallas, Denton, [196] Houston, [197] and San Antonio. [198] In June 2024, Texas radio host Ryan Hamilton spoke out against Texas' abortion ban after his wife nearly bled to death after a Texas hospital refused to treat her miscarriage. [199]
The national abortion rate decreased from 13.2 per 1,000 women of reproductive age in April 2022 to 12.3 per 1,000 women.
In 2018, 78% of abortions were performed at 9 weeks or less gestation, and 92% of abortions were performed at 13 weeks or less gestation. [22] By 2023, medication abortions accounted for 63% of all abortions. [23] Almost 25% of women will have had an abortion by age 45, with 20% of 30 year olds having had one. [24]