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Mar 19, 2024 · The number of abortions in the United States peaked in 1990, at 1.6 million. Over nearly 30 years, they experienced a sustained decline, falling to 885,000 in 2017. In 2019 and 2020, however, this long-term trend started to reverse, with the number of abortions rising to 930,160 in 2020, marking an 8% increase from 2017 (see Additional ...
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The most high-profile state-level abortion debate of 2011 took place in Mississippi, where voters rejected the ballot initiative that would have legally defined a human embryo as a person “from the moment of fertilization,” setting the stage to ban all abortions and, potentially, most hormonal contraceptive methods in the state. Meanwhile, five sta...
Eight states enacted or amended abortion reporting requirements in 2011. Six of these states (AL, ID, IN, KS, MO and OK), all of which adopted restrictions on abortions performed later in pregnancy (see above), moved to require abortion providers to report a diagnosis when an abortion is performed at or beyond 20 weeks’ gestation. North Dakota also...
Family planning services and providers were especially hard-pressed in 2011, facing significant cuts to funding levels as well as attempts to disqualify some providers for funding because of their association with abortion. Considering the historic fiscal crises facing many states, it is significant that family planning escaped major reductions in ...
Unlike in recent years when states had moved to expand access to comprehensive, medically accurate sex education, the only relevant measures enacted in 2011 expanded abstinence education. Mississippi, which had long mandated abstinence education, adopted provisions that make it more difficult for a school district to include other subjects, such as...
Over the course of 2011, four states took positive steps to expand access to STI prevention and treatment. Three states adopted provisions permitting a health care provider to prescribe STI treatment to the partner of patient, even if he or she has not been seen by the provider. Connecticut and Indiana permit treatment for chlamydia or gonorrhea, a...
States enacted a variety of measures relating to pregnancy and birth. Four states adopted requirements aimed at expanding access to treatment services. Maine adopted a measure to include HIV testing as part of routine prenatal care; Oklahoma enacted a law requiring a woman to have an HIV test when she delivers, if she has not already received one a...
Eight states took a variety of steps to limit exposure to specific substances that have been shown to adversely affect reproductive health: 1. California, Delaware and Maryland enacted provisions banning the use of Bisphenol A (BPA) in bottles and cups used by infants and children; including these states, eight states have banned the use of BPA in ...
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Jan 5, 2012 · By almost any measure, issues related to reproductive health and rights at the state level received unprecedented attention in 2011. In the 50 states combined, legislators introduced more than 1,100 reproductive health and rights-related provisions, a sharp increase from the 950 introduced in 2010.
Dec 20, 2023 · Updated 10:43 PM PDT, December 19, 2023. Abortion is going to remain a major issue in politics, policy and the courts in the U.S. in 2024, even though most of the states that were expected to impose restrictions have already done so. The abortion landscape has been in flux since the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v.
Jun 8, 2022 · With the states now able to regulate abortion access, several states — Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin — have prohibited...
May 18, 2023 · Exceptions to state abortion bans generally fall into four general categories: to prevent the death of the pregnant person, to preserve the health of the pregnant person, when the pregnancy is...
3 days ago · Although the Idaho law limits the provision of abortion care to circumstances where death is imminent, the federal government argues that under EMTALA and basic principles of federal supremacy ...