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From 1981 through 2017, the abortion rate fell by more than half, falling faster in Democratic administrations than Republican ones. The abortion rate fell below the 1973 rate in 2012 and continued to fall through 2017, when it stood at 13.5 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age. The abortion rate then rose from 2018 through 2020.
The Soviet Union had more than 200 million reported abortions throughout its history according to the Johnstons Archive. [4] Since legalization in 1967, there have been 9,331,978 abortions in the United Kingdom according to government reports collected by the Johnstons Archive.
The risk of death due to legal abortion has fallen considerably since Roe v. Wade (1973) legalized it; this was due to increased physician skills, improved medical technology, and earlier termination of pregnancy. [369] From 1940 through 1970, deaths of pregnant women during abortion fell from nearly 1,500 to a little over 100. [369]
In 2020, more than 113,000 abortions were administered across the 13 states that have since enacted total abortion bans, as well as Wisconsin, where many health care providers are hesitant to ...
Abortions are on the rise in the United States, despite bans that have taken effect in more than a dozen states since the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to ...
The report estimates that if not for the post-Dobbs bans, there would have been about 9,900 more abortions per month — and 208,000 total since — in those states.
English: This graph shows the number of abortions in the U.S. and abortion ratios in the U.S. from 1973-2017. The abortion ratio is the number of abortions per 100 pregnancies ending in abortion or live birth. The data, collected by the Guttmacher Institute, is taken from the following documents: Jones, Rachel K.; Kooistra, Kathryn (March 2011).
Despite state-level bans, new data show around 46,000 more abortions were performed during the first six months of 2023 than during the same period in 2020. Over a Year After Dobbs, Abortions Have ...