Tens of thousands of abortion patients are forced to leave their domestic states Look for abortion care three years after the end of the constitutional protected approach to abortion In America.
One of the every seven patients of abortion, or approximately 155,000 people, left his home country for abortion care last year, According to GuttMacher Institute, Reproductive research group.
This is a little less than 170,000 people who have traveled in 2023. years, but remarkable spikes in the abortion in terms of the year in June 2022. year in terms of the Supreme Court 2022. Years Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organizationrolled over Roe v Wade and are permitted to criminalize abortion care and implement direct prohibitions.
The path to care for abortion care abortion almost doubled from that judgment. Since DobBS decision, 13 countries have banned abortions in almost all circumstances, creating the suffering of access to abortion across the country and Balkanized legal restrictions for patients and services, which are criminalized in others.
The total number of abortions each year also increased the decision continuously.
2024. In the United States, 1,14 million abortions occurred, According to the family planning company.
Approximately one of the four abortions were performed through Teleheard last year, with an average of 12,330 abortions per month, which usually requires a two-line protocol that a patient can take at home.
It is worse than one in five in 2023. and one in each 20 in 2022. Years.
Abortion for medications seemed a great majority of abortion in recent years. Approximately 63 percent of all abortions are now abortions of drugs, according to Guttmacher.
MifePriston, one of the two prescription drugs used in drug abortions, is approved for use by FDA to 10 weeks of pregnancy. Since 2019. until 2020. year, almost 93 percent of all abortions were performed since 13. weeks, according to the centers for the control and disease prevention.
But the medicine is in The center of legal challenge is encouraged by right-wing activist groups against abortion who tried to remove government approval and implement the deletion of federal prohibitions on abortion.
The President Donald Trump administration also committed to revise the approval of the drug, using false reporting and junk science, in an obvious attempt to undermine the basis for government approval.
Almost half of patients traveling in abortion last year came from states in which the abortion was banned – including more than 28,000 Texas residents, more than any other state, found Chttmacher.
“Although these findings show us and how far patients travel, they are unable to capture numerous financial, logistical, social and emotional obstacles that face people”, according to GuttMaher Institute and Study Lead Isaac Maddow-Zim.
In months after the decision of the DobBS, wiping the limits of the shockless southern and neighboring state effectively forced abortion patients to travel hundreds of miles to reach the closest situation in which the ability itself was legal.
Florida, surrounded by anti-abortion, initially was the key point of access to abortion in the south in the first two years after the decision of the Dobbs. 2023. More than 9,000 people traveled from other countries to abortively abortion there, according to Guttmacher. Approximately one in each two abortions National wide and one in three abortions in the south were performed at the Florida at the time.
Last year, Florida banned Abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, before more women know that they are even pregnant, and the number of patients traveling to the state of abortion is almost halfway.
Another 8,000 people left the state to give a miscarriage somewhere else, often crossing as many as three countries to get there, he found Guttmacher.
“They were not only floridians affected, but also thousands of patients with out of states who would travel there,” According to Candace Gibson, the Director of Guttmachach State Policy.
“The most extreme abortion prohibitions are concentrated in the south, which makes it disproportionately difficult people living in that region to achieve their basic right to body autonomy,” she added.