Hold abortion clinics. Medical search. Frequent questions

A Utah judge ruled in favor of a Planned Parenthood request on Tuesday to block the state's latest anti-abortion law from going into effect Wednesday. (axios.com)
Third District Court Judge Andrew Stone approved an injunction that prevents the state from enacting its abortion clinic ban while courts review a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and ACLU of Utah. (axios.com)
Stone ruled that Planned Parenthood has a 'substantial likelihood' of defeating the new clinic ban because it treats abortion clinics differently from other clinics 'without any reasonable objective. (axios.com)
Erin Davison-Rippey, Iowa executive director of Planned Parenthood North Central States, claimed in a statement in June that the law would "delay a person's ability to get an abortion by weeks. (christianpost.com)
Under the Act, patients will need to make two trips to a [Planned Parenthood of the Heartland] clinic since it is likely they would not be readily able to obtain certification from a local, non-PPH provider. (christianpost.com)
Like at the abortion industry standard bearer, Planned Parenthood ? (jillstanek.com)
a Planned Parenthood site that recently had to halt its abortion services in the midst of a highly publicized legal fight in the state. (kpbs.org)
Together, these rules have forced all but one Planned Parenthood health center in the state - the one in St. Louis - to stop offering both medical and surgical abortions, according to Emily Miller, a spokesperson for the organization. (kpbs.org)
Columbia is a microcosm of what is happening [nationwide]," says Kristin Metcalf-Wilson, the lead clinician for Planned Parenthood Great Plains, a group of clinics that includes the Columbia facility. (kpbs.org)
Emily Wales, the general counsel at Planned Parenthood Great Plains, says her team has ongoing litigation against the federal court's ruling in addition to several other laws that make it harder for Planned Parenthood to provide abortions in the state - and is awaiting the court's response. (kpbs.org)
Planned Parenthood reduced its number of abortion facilities by consolidating services into fewer locations. (operationrescue.org)
In 2016, Planned Parenthood operated 354 facilities that conducted abortions. (operationrescue.org)
Today, there are a total of 347 Planned Parenthood facilities that offer abortions. (operationrescue.org)
Not counting Planned Parenthood's vast - but shrinking - network of referral clinics that do not offer abortions, Planned Parenthood facilities now account for 49% of all abortion facilities in the U.S. Nevertheless, they only account for 30.6% of all abortions done in the U.S. (operationrescue.org)
Under former President Trump, clinics were barred from referring patients for abortions, prompting a mass exit by service providers affiliated with Planned Parenthood, as well as several states and other independent organizations. (latimes.com)
A Utah judge ruled on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, that a recently passed state law banning abortion clinics cannot take effect on Wednesday as scheduled while the court deliberates over a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood. (apnews.com)
The decision allows the state's four clinics to continue providing abortions while Judge Andrew Stone takes more time to weigh the merits of a lawsuit filed by the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, which argued the law would "functionally eliminate" abortion access by limiting the procedure to hospitals. (apnews.com)
Planned Parenthood argued that the Utah law effectively banned abortion because 95% of the procedures are provided in clinics and hospitals aren't as well-equipped to offer low-cost outpatient care, including the abortion pill. (apnews.com)
Planned Parenthood said state lawmakers and Gov. Spencer Cox enacted the law to bypass the court system while it weighs challenges to other abortion restrictions. (apnews.com)
In his ruling, Stone agreed to delay implementing the clinic ban because Planned Parenthood presented enough preliminary evidence to suggest the legislation "singles out" abortion clinics without reason. (apnews.com)
Planned Parenthood Arizona said it has a team of patient navigators to inform them of their options, including having and keeping the baby, putting it up for adoption, or going out of state for an abortion, according to President and CEO Brittany Fonteno. (mynorthwest.com)
If the patient decides to have an abortion but can't afford the new costs, Planned Parenthood will work with the patient to arrange for care. (mynorthwest.com)
Help with the added expenses will come from either Planned Parenthood funds or money from the two abortion funds in the state. (mynorthwest.com)
Then there was thisd lie by Planned Parenthood of Oklahoma City chief executive Anita Fream when said that it isn't the policy of abortion rights activists to make pro-life advocates appear violent or dangerous. (creativeminorityreport.com)
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, which operates three clinics that provide abortions in the state, is not scheduling the procedure beyond June 25 as it anticipates a late June decision reversing the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed abortion rights nationwide. (voanews.com)
In South Dakota this week, the state's only abortion clinic, also operated by Planned Parenthood, announced it had 'paused' scheduling abortions beyond the end of the month. (voanews.com)
She said if that happened, Planned Parenthood would help those patients book appointments for abortions in nearby states, such as Minnesota and Illinois. (voanews.com)
Today, a shooter entered a NAF member Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and held clinic staff and patients hostage for several hours. (prochoice.org)
This clinic is part of the Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains affiliate, which was featured in one of the highly-edited smear videos released this summer. (prochoice.org)
Our members include individuals, private and non-profit clinics, Planned Parenthood affiliates, women's health centers, physicians' offices, and hospitals who together care for approximately half the women who choose abortion in the U.S. and Canada each year. (prochoice.org)
We have seen a 50% increase in requests for abortion appointments compared to the weekend before the Supreme Court decision," said Ashlea Phenicie of Planned Parenthood Michigan . (clickondetroit.com)
The uncertainty surrounding the future of abortions in Michigan is pushing some to book appointments sooner than they were planning and what Planned Parenthood is calling "scare tactics" from conservative district attorneys around the state who believe they can begin prosecuting women and doctors even with the court's hold on the law in place. (clickondetroit.com)
They argued the law restricted Right to Life's First Amendment right to peaceably offer charitable services to women in need on the public sidewalk and street outside its own building-and even its own parking lot-because Right to Life is located next to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic that administers the HPV vaccine. (californiafamily.org)
AP) - A man accused of intentionally setting fire to a Tennessee Planned Parenthood clinic and of firing shots later at a federal courthouse died months ago, officials announced Monday in disclosing both the man's death and the allegations. (ktar.com)
The man who was arrested in this case is not the only one who holds responsibility," said - Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, in a statement. (ktar.com)
Under the law, Planned Parenthood and other health clinics across the state have stopped providing abortions. (ktar.com)

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer , Stone also agreed to block Utah's near-total trigger ban on abortion while a lawsuit against it was pending. (axios.com)
The homes of Supreme Court justices are the newest site for protests over abortion access in the United States. (truthorfiction.com)
An issue that illuminates this imperative in sharp relief is residential picketing - protests against the actions or decisions of public officials at their homes, such as the recent noisy abortion rights demonstrations at the Montgomery County dwellings of Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. (truthorfiction.com)
In June 2018, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled 5-2 to strike down a state law that required a 72-hour waiting period before allowing an abortion procedure. (christianpost.com)
Protesters on both sides of the abortion debate demonstrated in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in July concerning Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. (kpbs.org)
For example, in Texas, of the 20 abortion facilities were forced to close in 2013 for failure to comply with new abortion safety regulations, three reopened this year after the U.S. Supreme Court that negated parts of that safety law. (operationrescue.org)
That made Indiana the first state to enact tighter abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated federal abortion protections by overturning Roe v. Wade in June. (wsmv.com)
New Mexico's Democratic-controlled Legislature supports access, and state lawmakers last year repealed a dormant 1969 law that outlawed most abortion procedures as felonies, ensuring access to abortion even after the Supreme Court rolled back the national guarantee. (kunm.org)
That reality became more urgent last week with a leaked, draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court suggesting a majority of justices support overturning the 1973 Roe vs Wade decision legalizing abortion. (seattletimes.com)
Pittman knows the Supreme Court ruling could end abortion in her state. (seattletimes.com)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi abortion clinic that was at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade ended a lawsuit Tuesday in which it had sought to block the state from enforcing a law that bans most abortions. (metro.us)
The clinic appealed the ruling to the state Supreme Court, citing a 1998 ruling that said the state constitution invokes a right to privacy that "includes an implied right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. (metro.us)
Because the clinic is dropping its lawsuit, the Mississippi Supreme Court will not issue a new ruling. (metro.us)
The Biden administration on Monday reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics, lifting a Trump-era restriction as political and legal battles over abortion grow sharper from Texas to the U.S. Supreme Court. (latimes.com)
They fear that a conservative-leaning Supreme Court will overturn Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationally. (latimes.com)
The Supreme Court has allowed the Texas law to take effect, but has not ruled on the substantive legal questions behind that statute, which bans most abortions in the state. (latimes.com)
It's the latest development to shape abortion access in Utah in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. (apnews.com)
Utah is one of 19 states to tighten abortion restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, with many relying on "trigger laws" passed in the years leading up to the decision. (apnews.com)
Pills and surgical abortions were legal until about 24 weeks until the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June and allowed states to ban all abortions. (mynorthwest.com)
It is one of 14 states with near-total abortion bans that the Supreme Court allowed when it overturned Roe. (mynorthwest.com)
People demonstrate outside the Supreme Court in support of abortion rights, June 15, 2022, in Washington. (voanews.com)
Abortion providers in some places where the procedure could be banned if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade are bracing for a ruling by halting scheduling for the procedure, transitioning staff to help patients travel to other states and creating networks of clinics that will span across regions of the country. (voanews.com)
Yesterday the Supreme Court struck down the Massachusetts "buffer zone," siding with a group of abortion opponents who argued that the law was unconstitutional because it prevented them from being able to counsel and offer assistance to women entering the clinics. (scotusblog.com)
Texas clinics immediately stopped providing abortions Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. (texastribune.org)
Since Roe v. Wade , the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized that a state has "a legitimate interest in seeing to it that abortion, like any other medical procedure, is performed under circumstances that ensure maximum safety for the patient. (aul.org)
Two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that Massachusetts' protective buffer zone around abortion clinics violates the free speech rights of protesters, four other buffer zones around the country have already disappeared or been challenged in court. (jillstanek.com)
Tennessee is among the several states that had enacted so-called trigger laws banning almost all abortions once the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the constitutional right to the procedure. (ktar.com)
[ 1 ] Accurate statistics have been kept since the enactment of the 1973 US Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortions. (medscape.com)
Since the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, hundreds of laws, federal and state, have been proposed or passed, making this the most actively litigated and highly publicized area in the field of medicine. (medscape.com)

Activists gathered Saturday [May 7 2022] in the rain outside the Maryland residences of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to protest a leaked draft opinion reportedly supported by the court's conservative majority … Protesters held signs that read, "Never Again" and "Don't Tread on My Choice. (truthorfiction.com)
FILE - Abortion-rights protesters fill Indiana Statehouse corridors and cheer outside legislative chambers, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, as lawmakers vote to concur on a near-total abortion ban, in Indianapolis. (wfyi.org)
FILE - Protesters gather outside the Capitol to voice their dissent with an abortion ruling, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Phoenix. (mynorthwest.com)
Before the Clearwater City Council voted unanimously on March 2 to create a buffer zone at an abortion clinic due to volatile confrontations with protesters, Florida Preborn Rescue member Allen Tuthill warned what would happen next. (tampabay.com)
On May 16, an anti-abortion group also represented by the Thomas More Society sued the city of Carbondale, Illinois, over an ordinance it passed in January that blocks protesters from approaching people within 100 feet of health care facility entrances. (tampabay.com)
The Court acknowledged that Massachusetts couldn't pass this kind of law just because anti-abortion protesters or counselors made other people uncomfortable, but it underscored that the concerns that prompted the legislature to pass this law - trying to keep access to clinics open and keep the area around clinics safe - aren't aimed at what people are saying. (scotusblog.com)
I saw the other nurses standing in the hallway," said Jenny, a nurse who has been with the clinic for five years and asked to be identified only by her first name for fear of being targeted by anti-abortion protesters. (texastribune.org)
They didn't recognize her but believed she was associated with the anti-abortion protesters who often massed outside the clinic. (texastribune.org)
In Mississippi , abortion clinic protesters got a scare when a man stopped his car and slashed up their sign with hunting knives . (jillstanek.com)
by whether she took the pill alone at home or navigated protesters outside a clinic. (nymag.com)
In the first case of its kind in Britain, Ealing council on Tuesday unanimously voted to block protesters from standing within 100 meters (328 feet)of a Marie Stopes clinic after clashes between pro- and anti-abortion campaigners intimidated clients. (medscape.com)
The council is actively exploring all possible options to prevent protesters from intimidating and harassing women outside abortion clinics," said a spokesman for Manchester City Council in the north of England who declined to be named. (medscape.com)

Only eight new surgical abortion facilities were opened, along with eleven new medication abortion facilities. (operationrescue.org)
Fourteen surgical abortion facilities now only conduct medication abortions, while five medication abortion facilities added surgical abortions. (operationrescue.org)
Surgical abortion clinics decreased in number by 26% since 2009, the first year Operation Rescue began keeping records. (operationrescue.org)
Since 1991, when there were 2,176 active surgical abortion facilities, only 23% of that number of surgical clinics are operating today. (operationrescue.org)
Of those, 160 are surgical abortion facilities, and 187 provide only medication abortions. (operationrescue.org)
That has led clinics to make arrangements with clinics in New Mexico and California to treat patients who wanted to access the abortion pill as well as those more than 12 weeks along who need a surgical abortion. (mynorthwest.com)
According a Columbus Dispatch article , Attorney General Yost called on the facilit i es to close, citing their continuation of non- esse n tial and elective surgical abortion procedures in opposition to the Health Order. (ohiolife.org)
Surgical abortion can be used for most pregnancies up to 24 weeks. (msdmanuals.com)
Before a surgical abortion, women are given antibiotics that are effective against infections in the reproductive tract. (msdmanuals.com)

Hyundai said it will also support single-day regional clinics run by dealerships before the end of 2023, although it didn't name locations or dates. (kxan.com)

The state still bans abortions after 18 weeks of pregnancy in most cases. (axios.com)
Georgia bans abortions once fetal cardiac activity can be detected and Florida and Utah have bans that kick in after 15 and 18 weeks gestation, respectively. (wsmv.com)
In Indiana, a law that bans abortions based on gender, race or disability was in effect Tuesday, a day after a federal judge lifted an order that blocked its enforcement. (metro.us)

Providing abortion care in Missouri really is complex and it involves so many different restrictions," Wales says. (kpbs.org)
And new restrictions on some abortions were in effect in Indiana after a judge lifted a hold on them. (metro.us)
Biden campaigned on a promise to overturn the restrictions on family planning clinics, but abortion was not a central issue in the 2020 presidential race. (latimes.com)
Republican lawmakers have previously said they designed the law to provide clarity to hospitals and explain parts of the legal code that would no longer be relevant once the state's abortion restrictions are fully implemented. (apnews.com)
Cathi Herrod, president of the social conservative organization Center for Arizona Policy and the architect of many of Arizona's tough abortion restrictions, slammed the proposal. (mynorthwest.com)
Many women in neighboring states with abortion restrictions are seeking appointments in Michigan. (clickondetroit.com)
These restrictions may delay or prevent access to abortion. (msdmanuals.com)

FILE - Abortion-rights protestors march between the Indiana Statehouse and the Indiana State Library where Vice President Kamala Harris was meeting with Indiana legislators to discuss reproductive rights in Indianapolis on July 25, 2022. (wsmv.com)
Under an arrangement beginning Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, a Phoenix abortion clinic has come up with a way for patients who can end their pregnancy using a pill to get the medication quickly without running afoul of a resurrected Arizona law that bans most abortions. (mynorthwest.com)
Members of the Dayspring Community Church youth group of Clinton, Miss., stand outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, holding signs opposing abortion, June 15, 2022. (voanews.com)

Abortion facilities that offer only abortion-inducing drugs, also known by pro-life activists as "pill mills," held steady at the same number as in 2016. (operationrescue.org)
Anti-abortion activists from across the U.S. converged in southern New Mexico on Tuesday to protest relocation plans by the Mississippi clinic at the center of the court battle that overturned the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, but New Mexico's governor vowed not to back down from her support for access to abortions. (kunm.org)
They heard from the leader of a local Catholic parish, a university student group and activists from Texas and Mississippi who talked about their experiences shutting down abortion clinics elsewhere. (kunm.org)
The clinic is nearly surrounded by anti-abortion activists: A pregnancy crisis center moved in next door, and a pro-life organization purchased land across the street and erected a large white cross. (seattletimes.com)
Anti-abortion activists from Mississippi, Texas and elsewhere rallied a crowd in Las Cruces on Tuesday evening and took donations for a new clinic that will provide fertility and pregnancy support services next door to the planned abortion clinic. (metro.us)
In Ealing, pro-choice Sister Supporter activists form a picket line to stop anti-abortion Good Counsel Network campaigners approaching women on their way into the clinic, brandishing graphic images of aborted fetuses. (medscape.com)

Anti-abortion protester Mary McLaurin calls out to a patient at the Jackson Women's Health Organization in 2013. (kunm.org)
The crowd gathered in triple-digit temperatures in the southern city of Las Cruces, near the location where Jackson Women's Health Organization plans to open its new clinic next week. (kunm.org)
Preparations are well underway for the new abortion clinic, with furniture and equipment from Jackson Women's Health Organization moved from Mississippi, and it is due to open soon. (kunm.org)
Jackson Women's Health Organization dropped its litigation a day after clinic owner Diane Derzis told The Associated Press that she sold the facility and had no intention to reopen it , even if a state court allowed her to do so. (metro.us)

With Indiana now on hold, bans on abortion at any point in pregnancy are in place in 12 Republican-led states. (wsmv.com)
The Indiana ban replaced state laws that generally prohibited abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy and tightly restricted them after the 13th week. (wsmv.com)
Terri Herring, president of Mississippi-based group Choose Life, told the crowd about more than two dozen pregnancy centers in her state that have helped mothers who were considering abortion but opted to have their babies instead. (kunm.org)
The facility will provide fertility care, pregnancy and childbirth support services as alternatives to the abortions planned for the former Mississippi clinic next door. (kunm.org)
The Mississippi trigger law, passed in 2007, says abortion is legal only if the pregnant woman's life is in danger or if a pregnancy is caused by a rape reported to law enforcement. (metro.us)
The justices will hear arguments Dec. 1 on the Mississippi law, which bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. (latimes.com)
Women can use a pill for an abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy. (mynorthwest.com)
Numerous red states went to town, often limiting abortion to very early in pregnancy or even making it essentially illegal. (citywatchla.com)
one is an antiabortion crisis pregnancy center, the other is the state's only licensed abortion provider. (salon.com)
Today, the House of Representatives will vote on legislation that would make abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy illegal, with the exception of cases where the mother's life is at risk or those involving incest or rape. (forbes.com)
K.A. was 23 years old and in her 24th week of pregnancy when she reported to Southwestern Women's Options on January 21, 2017, to begin a 3-4 day Dilation and Evacuation abortion procedure. (operationrescue.org)
Why are there so many more Crisis Pregnancy Centers than abortion clinics? (nbcnews.com)
It's a major victory for the anti-abortion movement which also happens to operate their own family planning centers known as Crisis Pregnancy Centers. (nbcnews.com)
Over the summer, the governor instead condemned vandalism at a crisis pregnancy center that aims to dissuade people from getting an abortion. (ktar.com)
Induced abortion is the intentional ending of a pregnancy by surgery or medications. (msdmanuals.com)
Pregnancy is confirmed before an abortion is started. (msdmanuals.com)
Contraception can be started immediately after an abortion done before 28 weeks of pregnancy. (msdmanuals.com)
For abortions done early in the pregnancy, only a local anesthetic may be needed. (msdmanuals.com)
More than 40% of all women will end a pregnancy by abortion at some time in their reproductive lives. (medscape.com)

Republican politicians should aim to make their own opposition to publicly funded abortion a salient campaign issue during the 2020 election. (californiafamily.org)
It counted more than 930,000 abortions in the U.S. in 2020. (voanews.com)
In December of 2020, the Argentine Congress legalized abortion through 14 weeks, vastly increasing access to abortion care in the country. (bvsalud.org)

The Food and Drug Administration earlier this year permanently removed rules requiring in-person consultations with a provider before women can receive a medication abortion, allowing women to have a telehealth appointment and get the pills through the mail. (mynorthwest.com)
Medication abortion can be used for pregnancies that are less than 11 weeks or that are more than 15 weeks. (msdmanuals.com)

Derzis said Tuesday's demonstration against the abortion clinic didn't bother her since protests have gone for years at other clinics she has owned in Mississippi and elsewhere. (kunm.org)
But for all the regulations and protests, despite "safe, legal, and rare" and "abortion is murder," abortion is part of our everyday experience. (nymag.com)
Abortion has been legal in Britain since 1968 for pregnancies up to 24 weeks but the volume and ferocity of anti-abortion protests have been increasing, campaigners said. (medscape.com)

He performed illegal, late-term abortions and when the babies were born alive, he would sever their spinal cords to kill them, prosecutors have claimed over the four-week trial. (dailymail.co.uk)
Late-term abortions, especially in outpatient surgical settings, should be outlawed because of the barbaric nature of the procedure that dismembers a baby in the womb and because they just aren't safe for women. (operationrescue.org)
Stephen Imbarrato of Priests for Life stated, "Are late term abortions really safe, legal and rare? (operationrescue.org)
How many other women have died from late term abortions that have been covered up? (operationrescue.org)

A judge has put a temporary block on a newly signed Iowa law that would require a woman seeking an abortion to wait at least 24 hours before undergoing the procedure. (christianpost.com)
Since another Missouri law requires a 72-hour waiting period between counseling about abortion and having the actual procedure, Huntington needed to call every patient on the day's schedule. (kpbs.org)
When they arrived, Huntington says, some were in tears after learning they had driven hours to Columbia to find that the clinic would no longer be able to perform the procedure. (kpbs.org)
Wales says neither the admitting privileges requirement nor the ambulatory surgical center requirements are necessary, since abortion is widely considered a safe procedure . (kpbs.org)

On Tuesday, West Virginia's only abortion clinic resumed scheduling patients for abortions, after a judge ruled in its favor. (metro.us)
In West Virginia, Women's Health Center began scheduling patients for abortions for as early as next week after a judge on Monday blocked enforcement of the state's 150-year-old abortion ban. (metro.us)

Stone specifically found the state's claimed objective - that hospitals are safer - did not explain why the ban should eliminate abortion clinics but still allow abortions in other outpatient clinics that are operated by hospital systems. (axios.com)
An Ohio judge has temporarily blocked that state law , indicating he will allow abortions to continue up to 20 weeks' gestation until after a court hearing scheduled for Oct. 7. (wsmv.com)

Ohio's restrictive abortion bill is just the latest example of Republicans across the country taking their cues from Donald Trump, who has a shameful record of denigrating women and ignoring issues important to them. (democrats.org)
Trump has suggested women who get an abortion should be punished, and Ohio Republicans are busy fighting to restrict women's health before he even takes office. (democrats.org)
In 2018, the family planning clinics served about 3.9 million clients, but HHS estimates that number fell by nearly 40% after the Trump policy. (latimes.com)
We might also remind ourselves that Beverly Hills was the site of numerous pro-Trump demonstrations and rallies that went on for months without the city getting involved in the way it has with the Dupont Clinic. (citywatchla.com)

An Indiana judge on Thursday, Sept. 22, blocked the state's abortion ban from being enforced, putting the law on hold as abortion clinic operators argue that the new law violates the state constitution. (wfyi.org)

One of many complaints abortion supporters have against clinic regulations, which they call TRAP laws - Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers - is a requirement for wider doors and hallways than clinics apparently usually have. (jillstanek.com)
Similar laws - which abortion-rights advocates call "targeted regulation of abortion providers," or TRAP laws - are in place in 24 states . (kpbs.org)

In Wisconsin, a law banning abortion has been on the books since 1849, but Roe v. Wade overrode it. (voanews.com)
Nurse and clinic director Kristina Hernandez remembers stories of patients she helped at Alamo Women's Reproductive Services in San Antonio before Roe v. Wade was overturned Friday. (texastribune.org)
Before they could even decide how to proceed, the door to the clinic slammed open and a young woman ran in, yelling about Roe v. Wade and saving babies. (texastribune.org)
But in an advisory issued Friday , Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that abortion providers could be held criminally liable immediately because the state never repealed the abortion prohibitions that were on the books before Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. (texastribune.org)
Clinics in Michigan are seeing a spike in calls for appointment requests days after the overturning of Roe V Wade . (clickondetroit.com)

The Hyde Amendment -the appropriations legislation first introduced in 1976 by Rep. Henry Hyde - bars federal funding for elective abortions through Medicaid. (californiafamily.org)

Stone declined to rule on the other constitutional arguments - whether banning abortion violates Utahns' freedom of conscience. (axios.com)

Since the 1973 decision, approximately 1.3-1.4 million abortions have been performed annually in the United States. (medscape.com)

The sort of circumstance that leads to an abortion recommendation is some sort of rare fetal anomaly which would result in the immediate death of the newborn (like it doesn't have a head), or a cancer in the mother which will lead to the mother's death without early and profound treatment -- treatment which is not consistent with maintaining the health of the fetus. (citywatchla.com)
A recent survey showed that the majority of Americans think that bans on abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected are not to restrictive, according to The Hill . (californiafamily.org)

Once women come to the center, staff members -- who oppose abortion even in cases involving rape and incest -- encourage them to make further appointments, and refer them to doctors who share the center's views on abortion. (salon.com)

Gosnell would have been one of the abortion clinics regulated out of existence had state agencies or the National Abortion Federation bothered. (jillstanek.com)
The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is the professional association of abortion providers. (prochoice.org)

West agreed that she was shocked at the size of the women who visited the clinic, as many looked as if they were too far along in their pregnancies to undergo an abortion. (dailymail.co.uk)
20 May - Queensland police raid the Greenslopes Fertility Clinic, Brisbane and seize the patient files of 20,000 women. (wikipedia.org)
We need to make this a refuge for women and their children," she said of New Mexico, before organizers of the rally announced they would open a Guiding Star Project clinic next door to the planned abortion clinic. (kunm.org)
Leah Jacobson, founder and CEO of The Guiding Star Project, told the crowd that the root causes of what is driving women to abortion need to be addressed and that a culture shift is needed to counter what she described as a loss of "bodily autonomy through devices, pills, drugs and surgeries. (kunm.org)
The Associated Press talked with three women and one man who run abortion clinics in such states about their work. (seattletimes.com)
To my shock … she told me then: 'Women have always had abortions and always will. (seattletimes.com)
The part-time job counseling women undergoing abortions was a good fit while she was trying to finish her master's degree. (seattletimes.com)
The Department of Health and Human Services said its new regulation will restore the federal family planning program to the way it ran under the Obama administration, when clinics were able to refer women seeking abortions to a provider. (latimes.com)
Known as Title X, the taxpayer-funded program makes available more than $250 million a year to clinics to provide birth control and basic healthcare services mainly to low-income women. (latimes.com)
Ashleigh Feiring, a nurse at the clinic, said the cost of the pills will be covered by the Abortion Fund of Arizona, which is helping women pay for out-of-state access to abortions. (mynorthwest.com)
Despite the FDA approval, Herrod argues that abortion pills have significant consequences and women need an in-person exam and follow-up care. (mynorthwest.com)
I'm not surprised that the abortion industry would care more about their bottom line and about selling pills than they would about taking care of women still," she said. (mynorthwest.com)
About 13,000 Arizona women had abortions last year, about half with a pill. (mynorthwest.com)
Although anti-abortion groups may condemn this type of violence when it happens, the way that they target and demonize providers contributes to a culture where some feel it is justifiable to murder doctors simply because they provide women with the abortion care they need. (prochoice.org)
its employees even use the language of "choice" to deceive women into thinking they provide abortion services. (salon.com)
In the Court's view, the exemption simply allows employees - not only the escorts who walk women into the clinic but also the guy who shovels the sidewalk in front of the clinic - to do their jobs. (scotusblog.com)
Either option would allow the state to target particular individuals who block access to clinics or harass women, without penalizing people like the plaintiffs who say that they are just trying to talk to women. (scotusblog.com)
Some women in the U.S. have to travel more than 330 miles to access abortion services. (forbes.com)
Bearak and his colleagues mapped the population of women of childbearing age against abortion providers in the US. (forbes.com)
While many women had abortion clinics in easy reach, those in less densely populated areas, such as Montana, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas, would have to travel more than 180 miles on average. (forbes.com)
He told me that the results reinforced what they had anticipated - that clinics are concentrated in urban areas, but one in five women would need to travel at least 43 miles. (forbes.com)
Distance to clinics is not the only hurdle women face in accessing healthcare, Bearak adds. (forbes.com)
Dr. Alan Braid, who owns the clinic, told the women in the waiting room - and those who had already been admitted to exam rooms - that they were halting all abortions immediately. (texastribune.org)
How many more women must die before the medical community admits that abortions are not safe? (operationrescue.org)
To keep women and girls safe, abortion clinics nationwide should be held to the same high standards that we expect from any outpatient medical facility," said AUL's Dr. Charmaine Yoest. (aul.org)
Big Abortion shows its true colors in arguing against medically appropriate protections for women and girls, as they fight to remain unregulated and unsupervised," said Dr. Yoest. (aul.org)
AUL applauds the wisdom of the Alabama legislators who stood up for women by requiring that abortion clinics meet high standards for patient care. (aul.org)
This Act is a perfect example of states ensuring that women receive quality medical care during all stages of abortion procedures including the use of abortion-inducing drugs. (aul.org)
The health and very lives of women and girls are at stake, requiring that abortion clinics be held to the same standards as other outpatient surgical facilities. (aul.org)
She argued on behalf of her clients, pro-life sidewalk counselors who regularly speak with women entering "vaccination site" abortion clinics, and who provide literature and display signs offering help with abortion alternatives - all activities that could be illegal under the new law. (californiafamily.org)
RESULTS: In 2016, 37 people per 100,000 women of reproductive age obtained accompanied self-managed abortions, and the number increased to 111 per 100,000 in 2019, a threefold increase. (bvsalud.org)
Worldwide, about 13% of deaths in pregnant women are due to unsafe abortion. (msdmanuals.com)
If women have risk factors for problems related to an abortion (such as heart or lung disease, seizures, or a history of cesarean deliveries), they may require further evaluation. (msdmanuals.com)
After any abortion (surgical or medication), women with Rh-negative blood are given injection of Rh antibodies called Rho(D) immune globulin. (msdmanuals.com)
The women that was going into the ob/gyn clinic was so numerous that we spent more time with our legs up in the stirrups than we did resting in bed. (cdc.gov)
The majority of women interviewed communicated that it takes courage to make the extreme, emotional, and overwhelming decision to have an abortion. (bvsalud.org)

Earlier this year, a Washington D.C. based abortion provider known as the Dupont Clinic -- one of the few which offers late abortions -- decided that in view of the new legal environment, they ought to open another clinic here in California. (citywatchla.com)

In all, 49 abortion facilities - 35 surgical and 14 medication only clinics - closed or halted abortion services. (operationrescue.org)

Addressing the consequences of unsafe abortion : insights from Pathfinder program experience / Sheila Webb. (who.int)

The other requires clinics to meet criteria that designate them as outpatient surgical centers. (kpbs.org)
Indiana's seven abortion clinics were to lose their state licenses under the ban - which only permits abortions within its narrow exceptions to take place in hospitals or outpatient surgical centers. (wsmv.com)

It's already hard enough for many Iowans to access abortion services, especially in the middle of a global pandemic. (christianpost.com)
NARAL Virginia's deputy director agreed, grumbling that the real agenda behind mandating wider halls and doors was "restricting safe, legal abortion access," according to MSNBC . (jillstanek.com)
But Jodi did qualify herself the word, "most," meaning she acknowledges there may be medical emergencies at a few clinics, but she's willing to roll the dice with women's lives for the sake of access. (jillstanek.com)
The battle over abortion rights in Missouri has drawn national attention in recent weeks, after a federal court ruled that two state laws limiting abortion access should stand. (kpbs.org)
Court battles over access to abortion are playing out in multiple states following the Supreme Court's June 24 ruling, which gave states the authority to set their own laws on abortion. (metro.us)
The lawsuit, filed May 26 and amended Wednesday, is one of several challenges to buffer zones at clinics across the nation at a time when access to abortion has been eroded in many states. (tampabay.com)
It's a window into what abortion providers and access funds are planning in more than a dozen other states across the South and Midwest. (voanews.com)
The strategy will inevitably put more pressure on providers in states in the region where abortion will still be legal, said Caitlyn Myers, an economics professor at Middlebury College who studies abortion access. (voanews.com)
The Court also expressed skepticism that access to and public safety around clinics are actually problems anywhere other than one specific clinic: "For a problem shown to arise only once a week in one city at one clinic, creating 35-foot buffer zones at every clinic across" the state "is hardly a narrowly tailored solution. (scotusblog.com)
In Texas, the state where the single, pregnant woman who became Jane Roe sued for access to an abortion 41 years ago, Wendy Davis became a national hero for filibustering abortion legislation, as did her governor for signing it into law. (nymag.com)
While we see increases in abortion services and improved public perception around abortion rights, inequities in access and quality of care persist throughout the country. (bvsalud.org)
Specifically, providers in some regions are well trained, while others create obstacles to access, and in some regions health services provide high quality abortion care whereas others provide substandard care. (bvsalud.org)
CONCLUSIONS: In Argentina, prior to Law 27.610 models of care guaranteed access to safe abortion. (bvsalud.org)
[ 3 ] Access to abortion was particularly limited in rural communities and in the South and Midwest. (medscape.com)

I cannot in good conscience support any magistrate or candidate who treats abortion as a healthcare issue that can be resolved by a legal technicality. (operationsaveamerica.org)

The Medical Board must hold Curtis Boyd accountable for the infection and the resulting complications that cost a young woman's life," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. (operationrescue.org)

If callers ask how much the center charges to perform an abortion, Lisa Arnold, a counselor and leader of the postabortion group, said: "I say, 'It changes, but why don't you come in for an ultrasound and we'll talk about it. (salon.com)
In California, a trained nurse practitioner can now perform an abortion, but in Mississippi, a provider must be an obstetrician with admitting privileges at a local hospital, a rule that could shut down the state's last remaining clinic. (nymag.com)

Ohio passed a "heartbeat bill" to ban most abortions. (democrats.org)
Will The Heartbeat Bill Close Ohio's Abortion Clinics? (democrats.org)

It held demonstrations at the building and made speeches in the public comment period to the Beverly Hills City Council. (citywatchla.com)

17 August - The 1985 Nunawading Province state by-election is held for the Victorian Legislative Council seat of Nunawading Province. (wikipedia.org)
Kate Michelman , former president of NARAL , complained in a piece blaming pro-lifers for Gosnell that the very state hosting his "House of Horrors," as it's now known, Pennsylvania , had enacted "volumes of costly regulations… designed to regulate abortion care right out of existence. (jillstanek.com)
The only other place in the state that they could turn to for an abortion was in St. Louis, a two-hour-drive away. (kpbs.org)
This week the Ohio state legislature doubled down on their attacks on women's health by approving a ban on abortion after 20 weeks, which could be the nation's toughest restriction on abortion. (democrats.org)
Republican state Attorney General Todd Rokita said in a statement: "We plan to appeal and continue to make the case for life in Indiana," calling the abortion ban law "a reasonable way" to protect the unborn. (wsmv.com)
The state attorney general's office said the court should uphold the ban, saying arguments against it are based on a "novel, unwritten, historically unsupported right to abortion" in the state constitution. (wsmv.com)
When she started working there, about 11 other clinics operated in the state, and some private doctors performed abortions. (seattletimes.com)
By that time, it was the only clinic left in the state. (seattletimes.com)
Restrictive state laws in Texas, Mississippi and elsewhere have prompted a mobilization by abortion rights supporters. (latimes.com)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A state court on Tuesday blocked Utah's first-in-the-nation ban on abortion clinics from taking effect Wednesday in a ruling in which the judge called the Republican-controlled Legislature's objective in enacting the ban "nebulous. (apnews.com)
Stone's decision prevents the state from joining others such as West Virginia, North Dakota and Mississippi, all of which have pushed out abortion clinics. (apnews.com)
Sarah Stoesz, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood's Utah affiliate, said the ruling "means that clinics can continue providing essential health care to our patients, who for months have lived in a state of chaos and confusion over the impact of this law on their lives. (apnews.com)
That petition calls for an independent investigation into what happened, allowing the clinic to open, and a more complicated demand that an ordinance be created which would forbid city representatives from cooperating with out of state anti-abortion groups. (citywatchla.com)
In 2007, Massachusetts passed a law that makes it a crime to stand on a public road or sidewalk within thirty-five feet of any abortion clinic in the state. (scotusblog.com)
The state has a "trigger law" that automatically bans abortion 30 days after the ruling is certified, a process that could take a month or more. (texastribune.org)
But either way, abortion will soon be banned in the second-largest state in the country. (texastribune.org)
And the people they would have served will melt into the shadows, fleeing over state lines, seeking out illegal abortions or quietly consigning themselves to decades of raising children they never wanted. (texastribune.org)
She had driven hours to make it to this appointment after her home state of Oklahoma banned all abortions. (texastribune.org)
It has come to our attention that your clinics currently are performing such procedures as defined above and in conflict with the Director of Health's order via this State of Emergency. (ohiolife.org)
At this time Ohio Right to Life and Ohioans across this great state call on you and your organization to put the health and safety of our children, elderly and other vulnerable populations above profit and above abortion. (ohiolife.org)
This cohort study compares observed vs expected abortion counts after Dobbs in Massachusetts among in-state vs out-of-state residents. (bvsalud.org)

She had a supportive partner - now her husband - who went with her to a different clinic, the Women's Health Center of West Virginia in Charleston. (seattletimes.com)
Spring Siders of Clearwater holds a sign while standing on the sidewalk outside of Bread and Roses Women's Health Center in Clearwater on Jan. 21. (tampabay.com)
Abortion proponents and news outlets have recently enjoyed publicizing the antics of pro-choice husband and wife "troll" team, Grayson and Tina Haver Currin , who began in March to hold off-putting signs next to those being held by pro-lifers at the A Preferred Women's Health Center abortion clinic in Raleigh , North Carolina . (jillstanek.com)

Closures balanced evenly with new opens and clinics that dropped surgical abortions in favor of the abortion pills. (operationrescue.org)

The rate of abortions via care providers was 18 per 100,000 in 2016 and 33 in 2019. (bvsalud.org)
The mortality rate related to induced abortion was 0.6 deaths per 100,000 abortions. (medscape.com)

The clinic has survived numerous efforts to restrict abortion, such as requirements for waiting periods or admitting privileges for doctors. (seattletimes.com)

Ostensibly, the decision held that individual states have the right to regulate abortion. (citywatchla.com)

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The creation of a buffer zone around a London abortion clinic to prevent patients being harassed could pave the way for other English cities to follow suit, campaigners said on Wednesday. (medscape.com)

Derzis said the clinic's furniture and equipment have been moved to a new abortion clinic she will open soon in Las Cruces, New Mexico. (metro.us)
Andrea Gallegos, executive director of Alamo Women's Reproductive Services, said she's hopeful that the clinic's lawyers may find a way to allow it to resume abortions briefly before the trigger ban goes into effect. (texastribune.org)

The judge wrote "there is reasonable likelihood that this significant restriction of personal autonomy offends the liberty guarantees of the Indiana Constitution" and that the clinics will prevail in the lawsuit. (wsmv.com)
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which is representing the abortion clinics, filed the lawsuit Aug. 31 and argued the ban would "prohibit the overwhelming majority of abortions in Indiana and, as such, will have a devastating and irreparable impact on the plaintiffs and, more importantly, their patients and clients. (wsmv.com)
The constitutional text nowhere mentions abortion, and Indiana has prohibited or heavily regulated abortion by statute since 1835 - before, during, and after the time when the 1851 Indiana Constitution was drafted, debated, and ratified," the office said in a court filing. (wsmv.com)

Groups representing the clinics said they hope the Biden administration action will lead hundreds of service providers that left in protest over Trump's policies to return, helping to stabilize a longstanding program that has been shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic on top of ideological battles. (latimes.com)
Biden, along with his fellow primary contenders, clearly believes he must support taxpayer funding of abortion to be competitive on the left, despite the fact that polling data indicates this position is unpopular with the public. (californiafamily.org)

In her complaint, Shaver stated, "It is my belief and that of medical professionals I have consulted with, that not only did Ms. A not receive timely emergency medical care to identify and treat the Pulmonary thromboembolism, but she also had sepsis (from the abortion) which is a known trigger for Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) that I believe lead to Ms. A ultimate cause of death being Pulmonary thromboembolism. (operationrescue.org)

The clinic ban, initially scheduled to take effect May 3, would have allowed abortion in only hospitals and some of their satellite clinics - facilities that historically have performed about 1% of Utah's abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute . (axios.com)
Utah's abortion clinic ban seeks to stop new facilities from getting licenses and was set to take effect on Wednesday. (apnews.com)

Abortions increased from 2017-20, according to figures from the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. (voanews.com)
Worldwide, some 20-30 million legal abortions are performed annually, with another 10-20 million abortions performed illegally (see The Alan Guttmacher Institute ). (medscape.com)

The organization in recent weeks has dedicated two staff members to help patients book appointments and figure out how to get to clinics. (voanews.com)

The clinic feels that they were specifically targeted by the city due to the pressure from the protestors. (citywatchla.com)

Velasquez said clinic staff wanted to provide abortions in Wisconsin up until the last minute it was legal, but also had to consider that scheduling appointments for dates when it could become illegal could create uncertainty and be 'distressing' for patients. (voanews.com)
The penalty for illegal abortion in Ireland is 14 years in prison. (forbes.com)
Most of these deaths occur in countries where abortion is highly restricted or illegal. (msdmanuals.com)
Illegal abortions are unsafe and account for 13% of all maternal mortality and serious complications. (medscape.com)

West Virginia's law, dating back to the 1800s, makes performing or obtaining an abortion a felony punishable by up to a decade in prison. (metro.us)
By 1869, the Catholic Church declared abortion a sin punishable by excommunication. (medscape.com)

Jodi apparently thinks legalization has made abortion so safe it is utterly impervious to human error or frailty. (jillstanek.com)

We have security video on the sidewalk and so does the abortion clinic next door. (salon.com)
On the one hand, the Court suggested, the burden that the law imposes on the plaintiffs in this case is significant: talking to someone on the sidewalk and handing her a pamphlet in the hope of convincing her not to have an abortion is exactly the kind of speech that the First Amendment protects. (scotusblog.com)

The on-going criminal trial of Kermit Gosnell, who operated a 'house of horrors' abortion clinic that went more than two decades without inspection, is case in point why this legislation is necessary," said Dr. Yoest. (aul.org)

Abortion proponents mocked the idea that the architectural standards would actually translate into better health care," noted the Washington Post . (jillstanek.com)
So you would think after all the notoriety abortion proponents would back away from protesting common sense safeguards that might have saved Mongar's life. (jillstanek.com)

People are getting the word that abortion is now legal again, and people are ready to get their health care that they deserve and that they desire," Dr. Katie McHugh, an abortion provider at Women's Med in Indianapolis, told The Associated Press. (wsmv.com)
Whole Woman's Health, which operates an abortion clinic in South Bend, said its staff members "are making plans to resume abortion care in the near future. (wsmv.com)
Bills to ban or limit abortion care are introduced every year. (seattletimes.com)
At Camelback Family Planning, Feiring said they are not worried about doing ultrasounds and post-abortion care for those who use the pill to have an abortion. (mynorthwest.com)
But the Redditors' claims about A Woman's Choice and its deceptive practices around abortion care are far from false. (salon.com)
They had a dozen patients sitting in the lobby awaiting abortions, all seemingly unaware of the seismic shift that had just rocked the reproductive health care world. (texastribune.org)
Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico, who filed the complaint, noted that Boyd's staff called 911 at 12:04 p.m. on February 3 asking for an ambulance to transfer K.A. to UNM Hospital, but the ambulance was later cancelled - a move that likely delayed emergency medical care that might have saved her life. (operationrescue.org)
If signed into law, this Act will strengthen Alabama's standards for patient care provided at abortion clinics. (aul.org)
Higher proportions of those who obtained abortion via care providers were 30 years or older. (bvsalud.org)
It is important to continue making visible and legitimizing these models of care so that all those who decide to have an abortion, whether inside or outside health institutions, have safe and positive experiences. (bvsalud.org)
Complications are uncommon when an abortion is done by a trained health care professional in a hospital or clinic. (msdmanuals.com)

Her mother was immediately supportive and helped her schedule an abortion appointment. (seattletimes.com)
Myers said getting an appointment for an abortion may soon become 'critical' across the country. (voanews.com)
A patient returns for an appointment Friday to make sure her abortion treatment was successful. (texastribune.org)
These appointment requests are being made by those across the county, mostly from residents in states where the abortion bans are starting to be enforced. (clickondetroit.com)
When I was thirteen weeks, we made an appointment at the closest clinic in Kentucky, four hours away, but the night before, we decided not to go. (nymag.com)

While not as easy as before an Arizona judge ruled that a pre-statehood law criminalizing nearly all abortions could be enforced nearly two weeks ago, the process saves an overnight trip to a major California city with an abortion clinic. (mynorthwest.com)
A few weeks ago there were dozens of stories about a bomb scare at an abortion clinic in Tulsa. (creativeminorityreport.com)
Another federal court ruled against a newly passed California law several weeks ago for illegally prohibiting free speech outside vaccination cites, including abortion clinics. (californiafamily.org)
Successive court rulings have granted even more latitude in writing abortion laws, and legislators have responded by creating a patchwork of regulations: Arkansas has banned abortion after twelve weeks, while in Louisiana, a woman is shown her ultrasound before having an abortion. (nymag.com)
11% of those who obtained accompanied self-managed abortions were more than 12 weeks gestation compared with 7% among those who had accompanied abortions via health institutions and 0.2% among those who had abortions with private providers. (bvsalud.org)
A higher proportion of those who accessed accompanied abortions after 12 weeks gestation had lower educational levels, did not work or have social security coverage, had more past pregnancies, and attempted to terminate their pregnancies prior to contacting the Socorristas compared to those who had accompanied abortions at 12 weeks or earlier. (bvsalud.org)

To be sure, such tactics have a longer history: One of the ugliest manifestations was the antiabortion movement's widespread deployment of pickets at the homes of abortion providers. (truthorfiction.com)
Since the 1990s, incidents of severe violence directed at abortion providers and women's reproductive health clinics have declined, however, one in five clinics still experiences one of more forms of severe violence. (feminist.org)
This doesn't seem to me to be too much to ask of abortion providers, particularly since they say they are so concerned about "safe and legal" abortions. (jillstanek.com)
One law requires abortion providers to obtain privileges to admit patients to nearby hospitals. (kpbs.org)
Since a series of highly-edited, misleading anti-abortion videos was released in July, we have seen an unprecedented increase in hate speech and threats against abortion providers. (prochoice.org)
When politicians use hateful rhetoric against abortion providers and support extreme laws, like the total abortion ban we have in Tennessee, it shouldn't surprise us that some people believe real-world violence is justified. (ktar.com)
The law's passage followed years of advocacy for abortion rights in Argentina - including mass public and civil society mobilization, vocal support from an established pool of abortion providers who offered abortion services under specific legal exceptions prior to the new law, and the growth of community groups such as the Socorristas en Red who provide support for people to self-manage abortions. (bvsalud.org)
METHODS: We used data from accompaniment collectives in the Socorristas en Red and private service providers. (bvsalud.org)
AGI contacts abortion providers directly and provides abortion data every 4-5 years. (medscape.com)

Induced abortion does not increase risks for the fetus or woman during subsequent pregnancies. (msdmanuals.com)
Based on estimated lifetime risk, each American woman is expected to have 3.2 pregnancies, of which 2 will be a live birth, 0.7 will be an induced abortion, and 0.5 will be a miscarriage. (medscape.com)

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