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The number of abortions generally fell from 1991 through 2017, and rose thereafter. The largest percentage decrease in the number of abortions occurred in 2013, the year the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act took effect for most health insurance plans. Approximately 860,000 abortions were performed in 2017, rising to about ...
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
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]
The number of abortions performed worldwide was characterized as stable in the early 2000s, with 41.6 million having been performed in 2003 and 43.8 million having been performed in 2008. [28] The abortion rate worldwide was 28 per 1000 women per year, though it was 24 per 1000 women per year for developed countries and 29 per 1000 women per ...
The number of abortions performed in the U.S. fell slightly in 2022, the year the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, a new federal report found. In 2022, a total of 613,383 legal abortions were ...
In Latin America, abortion on request is only legal in Cuba (1965), Uruguay (2012), [39] Argentina (2021), [36] Colombia (2022) [40] and in parts of Mexico. [41] [42] Abortions are completely banned in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, and only allowed in certain restricted circumstances in most other Latin American ...
While the overall number of abortions decreased, abortions by telehealth providers increased from 3,610 in April 2022 (4 percent of all abortions), before the decision, to 8,540 in December (11 ...
Abortion in Louisiana is illegal as of August 1, 2022. [1] [2]In 2022, Governor John Bel Edwards signed a law criminalizing abortion providers. An earlier version of the bill had also sought to criminalize abortion seekers, but this was vehemently opposed by both opponents and advocates of abortion rights. [3]