Posted on 06/15/2022 12:08:44 PM PDT by KingofZion
The number of abortions in the United States has increased, reversing what had been a three-decade decline, according to a new report.
The uptick began in 2017, and as of 2020, one in five pregnancies, or 20.6 percent, ended in abortion, according to the report by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights. In 2017, 18.4 percent of pregnancies ended in abortion.
The institute, which collects data by contacting every known abortion provider in the country, reported that the number of abortions increased to 930,160 in 2020, from 862,320 in 2017. The number increased in every region of the country: by 12 percent in the West, by 10 percent in the Midwest, by 8 percent in the South and by 2 percent in the Northeast.
Overall, the abortion rate rose in 2020 to 14.4 per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 from 13.5 abortions per 1,000 women in 2017, a 7 percent increase, the report said.
The report said that during this period, births nationwide declined by 6 percent, meaning that “fewer people were getting pregnant and, among those who did, a larger proportion chose to have an abortion.”
***The report suggested several reasons for the rise in abortions, including trends that directly affected poor and low-income people, the population most likely to seek abortions in recent years. Some states expanded Medicaid coverage for abortion, the report said, and abortion funds that provide financial assistance to patients expanded in recent years.
Another factor may have been the Trump administration policy of preventing programs that received Title X family planning money from mentioning the option of abortion to patients, which caused Planned Parenthood and several state governments to decline to accept Title X funding....The Biden administration has since rescinded the Trump-era policy...
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Democrats are horrified by shooting deaths in schools (as we all are) but they aren’t horrified by children murdered in the womb. Go figure!
Yeah, sure. "Stock up on abortions now while you still can..."
Yeah, sure. “Stock up on abortions now while you still can...”
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So
Better get pregnant now!
Spontaneous? Or elective?
Spontaneous? Or elective?
I don’t think they count the plan b pill abortions just the surgical ones.
Sorry little ones. So many people are trying so hard to protect you. But there is so much evil in this world. So much.
I believe spontaneous abortions are termed miscarriages and would not be included in these statistics.
These are just murdered kids.
Every abortion must go! We have to make room for the 2023’s!
CA infanticide bill
I just hope and pray this will not pass constitutional muster. What else can we do the Orcs run this state no one is safe.
True
Unbelievable
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