International Courant
The variety of abortions within the U.S. solely barely dropped in 2022, the 12 months the Supreme Court docket overturned Roe. v. Wade, returning the facility to make legal guidelines on abortion entry again to the states.
Abortions declined by simply 2% in 2022 in comparison with 2021, in keeping with new surveillance information from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. The abortion charge additionally dipped by 3% and the abortion ratio decreased by 2%.
The entire dropped from about 622,000 abortions in 2021 to 609,000 in 2022, the info revealed.
Greater than 6% of abortions occurred between 14 and 20 weeks of being pregnant whereas about 1% have been carried out both at or after 21 weeks of being pregnant, the CDC stated in its report.
Girls of their 20s made up greater than half of abortions, the CDC stated.
WYOMING JUDGE STRIKES DOWN STATE ABORTION LAWS, RULING THEM UNCONSTITUTIONAL