Abortions in US increase AGAIN post Roe, even for red state women, due to shield laws
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Abortions in the US are on the rise three years after Roe v Wade was overturned
A growing number of abortions happen through telehealth – including for women in states with strict bans
Three years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, erasing the national right to abortion and paving the way for more than a dozen states to ban the procedure, the number of abortions performed in the US is still on the rise – including in some states that ban the procedure.
US abortion providers performed 1.14m abortions in 2024, according to new data released on Monday by #WeCount, a Society of Family Planning project that has tracked abortion provision since 2022. That’s the highest number on record in recent years.
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Much of the increase in telehealth abortions can be attributed to the spread of “shield laws”. Enacted by at least eight states since Roe’s fall, these controversial laws are designed to protect abortion providers who treat women in states with bans from prosecution by those states.
Demand for shield-law abortions has soared over the last two years. In July 2023, when the first shield-law abortion providers started operating, they facilitated fewer than 6,000 abortions for people living in states that ban almost all abortions or that restrict telehealth abortions. In December 2024, these providers performed almost 14,000 abortions.
“There’s more abortion taking place in Mississippi today than there was prior to Dobbs,” said Dr Angel Foster, a co-founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (Map), which uses shield laws to ship abortion pills out to about 2,500 patients a month. “That really speaks to how little access some folks had to in-clinic abortion care prior to Dobbs and how shield law provision and telemedicine has really stepped into that space.”
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Oh..of course...Republicans ran the clock back to the dark ages... 