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Based on a brand new examine from the Guttmacher Institute, medicine abortion was chargeable for 63% of all abortions carried out within the US in 2023.
Based on Guttmacher’s Month-to-month Provision Research, roughly 642,700 medicine abortions occurred inside the healthcare business within the first full calendar 12 months after the U.S. Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade in July 2022. Because the courtroom’s ruling, fourteen states have halted almost all abortions.
By comparability, medicine abortions accounted for 53% of abortions within the U.S. in 2020, in line with the examine.
One of many capsules used within the medicine abortion routine, mifepristone, is on the middle of a authorized battle within the Supreme Courtroom that would restrict entry to the tablet nationwide.
Using medicine abortions has steadily elevated over the previous twenty years.
Proportion of abortions within the US that had been medicine abortions
Supply: Guttmacher Institute
The commonest medicine abortion routine consists of two medicines, mifepristone and misoprotol. Below present Meals and Drug Administration tips, mifepristone is secure to be used as much as 10 weeks of being pregnant and might be despatched to sufferers after a telehealth appointment.
The Guttmacher Institute estimates that the whole variety of medicine abortions is increased than the quantity within the examine as a result of the examine solely consists of abortions supplied inside the formal well being care system.
Based on the Guttmacher Institute, the examine doesn’t keep in mind self-managed abortions that happen exterior the formal well being care system, or abortion medicines despatched to sufferers dwelling in states with abortion bans.
The examine additionally discovered that an estimated 1,026,690 abortions occurred within the formal U.S. well being care system in 2023 and that there have been 15.7 abortions per 1,000 girls of childbearing age. This represents a ten% improve in abortions from 2020 and is the very best quantity and variety of abortions recorded within the nation in additional than a decade. It’s the first 12 months since 2012 that greater than one million abortions have been carried out within the formal well being care system.
Individuals protest in response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group ruling earlier than the U.S. Supreme Courtroom in Washington, DC, June 24, 2022.
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Abortion rights advocates collect in Amarillo, Texas on March 15, 2023.
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The U.S. Supreme Courtroom will take up abortion once more when it hears arguments in a lawsuit in search of to revoke the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. The courtroom may restrict the power to ship abortion medicines to sufferers dwelling in states the place bans are in impact and require the medicine to be supplied in individual.
Earlier this month, CVS and Walgreens introduced they’d begin promoting mifepristone in some states.
