Fewer people are traveling to other states for abortion as laws shift, a study finds

The Associated Press ^ | April 14, 2025 | BY GEOFF MULVIHILL

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Fewer people crossed state lines to obtain abortions in 2024 than a year earlier, a new survey has found.

The Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, estimates in a report released Tuesday that the overall number of clinician-provided abortions in states where it’s legal rose by less than 1% from 2023 to 2024.

But the number of people crossing state lines for abortions dropped by about 9%.

The report, based on a monthly survey of providers, is the latest look at how the abortion landscape in the U.S. has evolved since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade in 2022 in a ruling that eliminated a national constitutional right to abortion and opened the door to state bans and restrictions.

Guttmacher estimates there were 1.04 million abortions in 2024, up about 1% from its total the previous year.

Guttmacher’s tally does not capture self-managed abortions such as people obtaining abortion pills from community networks, foreign pharmacies or through telehealth from medical providers in states that have laws intended to protect those who send pills into places with bans.

The number of people crossing state lines for abortions dropped to about 155,000 from nearly 170,000.

[mikelets456]

What a slanted article. The party of death names abortion a “Constitutional Right”. Yet they ignore all the amendments and the rest of the Constitution.

Evil never stops. The article sounds so “giddy” about killing babies.

[Liz]

Abortion is illegal in several countries around the world. These include Andorra, Malta, El Salvador, Honduras, Senegal, Egypt, the Philippines, and Laos.

Additionally, abortion is illegal in countries like The Dominican Republic, Haiti, Iraq, Jamaica, and the Republic of the Congo. Some countries, like Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, and Suriname, also have very restrictive abortion laws.

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By contrast, Israel eased its abortion regulations in response to the US Supreme Court’s
overturning Roe, making it easier for women to access abortions. The changes include:
<><>providing easier access to abortion pills through its free universal health system,
<><>ditching the need to appear before a special committee that approved most abortions,
<><>and streamlining the process to make abortion applications easier.

[SaveFerris]

(Evil never stops. The article sounds so “giddy” about killing babies.)

YEP



“I've noticed that everyone who is
for abortion has already been born,”

Ronald Reagan

Democrat Cecile Richards was
unavailable for comment.

Democrat Joe Biden gave a medal 🥇 of freedom
to Cecile Richards in 2024, who made her money
terminating the lives of other human beings.

How very Democrat of them.