In , women in their 20s accounted for more than half of abortions In and during , women aged and years accounted for the highest percentages of abortions; in , they accounted for Abortion rates decreased from to for all women, regardless of age.
The decrease in abortion rate was highest among adolescents compared with women in any other age group. In , approximately three fourths Had the protective states experienced the permissive state abortion rate in , an additional 50, to 60, abortions could have occurred, making no adjustments for age or race. Some of the increase in abortions between and is attributable to chemical abortion. Thirty-three states reported the number of chemical abortions occurring in In these 33 states, chemical abortions increased by nine percent from the previous year, while surgical abortions and those performed using other methods dropped by three percent.
Previously, CLI estimated that chemical abortions composed 39 percent of all abortions in CLI estimates that chemical abortions made up 41 percent of the total in Twenty-nine states reported chemical abortions for every year from to , and among these states, chemical abortions increased by 42 percent over the five-year period. Chemical abortions have been increasing since mifepristone was first approved in by the U.
Food and Drug Administration FDA , a trajectory impacted by several factors, including changing abortion protocols, a fluctuating legal environment, and a shifting abortion landscape in the United States.
The abortion industry as a whole has reoriented around chemical abortion. The number of abortion centers in the U. Additionally, changing clinical practice may have served to expand the use of chemical abortion. Because mifepristone is a dangerous drug, the FDA maintains a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy REMS requiring abortion providers to distribute the pill from their facilities, rather than from pharmacies.
Advances in telemedicine have also contributed to the expansion of chemical abortion. In , Planned Parenthood began performing some chemical abortions via telemedicine. Usually, a woman undergoing an abortion via telemedicine must still pick up her pills from the abortion center, but the abortion industry has trials underway to allow women to obtain mifepristone from pharmacies or through the mail, despite the fact that this abortion model is currently prohibited by the REMS.
However, despite assurances from the abortion industry that these new chemical abortion protocols are safe, there is no comprehensive abortion complication data collection and little oversight. Chemical abortions are known to be riskier and less effective with advancing gestational age. This initial review of available state abortion statistics suggests that abortions in the United States increased from to and that chemical abortion has played a role in interrupting the long-term decline in abortion rates.
As more states release reports, however, these abortion totals could change. In addition, the lack of complete reporting from large, high-abortion-volume states like California means that final statistics will be missing a sizeable percentage of all abortions occurring in the United States. Without timely, comprehensive abortion reporting from every state, our understanding of U.
The tables were published as a supplementary file. Abortion Surveillance — United States, SS :1— Abortion in the United States Preliminary review and a call for reform.
Charlotte Lozier Institute. American Reports Series Issue 14, May Iowa and Virginia were categorized based on their political environments and the shift in their policies that has taken place over the past decade.
See: Americans United for Life. Rate of abortion among teenage girls in the U. Number of abortions reported among teenage girls in the U.
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