Last year, “the number and rate of abortions in the United States was the highest in more than a decade.” according to A report from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.
2023 — the first full calendar year following the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court decision. Roe vs. Wade — An estimated 1,026,690 fetuses die from abortion in the U.S. formal health care system, resulting in an abortion rate of 15.7 per 1,000 women of reproductive age, according to the institute’s monthly abortion provision survey. found. This figure represents a 10 percent increase in abortions compared to 2020.
The study found that all states that have not decriminalized abortion saw a total increase in the number of abortions performed compared to 2020.
“A 10 percent increase at the national level in many ways underestimates the degree to which health systems, providers, and support networks have had to scale up care in specific states. “States with no abortions experienced a 25 percent increase in abortions in 2023 compared to 2020,” according to a press release. “The steepest increases were seen in states adjacent to ban states, where the number of abortions increased by 37 percent from 2020 to 2023.”
The report notes that the annual estimates are “reliable because they include only abortions received within the formal U.S. health care system, including brick-and-mortar health care facilities such as clinics and clinics, and telemedicine and virtual health care providers.” “This is an undercount.” ”, and not the national and international underground networks that include networks that send pills to women in red states.
Pro-abortion activists display abortion pills during an anti-abortion demonstration in New York City on March 25, 2023. (Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)
Guttmacher also revealed that medication abortions accounted for 63% of all abortions in the United States in 2023, up from 53% in 2020.
According to the report, approximately 642,700 fetuses died through medication abortion within the health care system.
Medication abortion is usually completed with a two-drug therapy.The first drug, mifepristone block The action of progesterone produced by the mother to nourish the pregnancy. When progesterone is blocked, the mother’s endometrial lining deteriorates, cutting off blood and nutrients to the developing baby, which then dies in the mother’s womb. A second drug, misoprostol (also known as Cytotec), then causes contractions and bleeding to expel the baby from the mother’s womb.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 26 in a case that could have a significant impact on how mifepristone is used in the United States.
President Joe Biden speaks about the importance of electing Democrats who want to restore abortion rights during an event hosted by the Democratic National Committee at the Howard Theater in Washington, DC, on October 18, 2022. (Tom Williams/ CQ-Roll Call, Inc) from Getty Images)
The case concerns the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) reversal of safety restrictions for mifepristone, including the gestational age range for babies from 7 weeks gestation to 7 weeks before a girl or woman can take the abortifacient. This includes measures taken in 2016 to extend the period to 10 weeks. , and a 2021 rule change now allows abortionists to send mifepristone by mail. The FDA recently made permanent a rule that allows women and girls to receive prescriptions for mifepristone via telemedicine.
Biden administration is relentless promotion In January 2023, the FDA allowed retail pharmacies to dispense abortion pills. At the same time, several Democratic governors are stockpiling abortion drugs while enacting shield laws to protect health care providers who prescribe mifepristone to women and girls in states with laws protecting the fetus.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her at @thekat_Hamilton.
