Summary
Despite the overturning of Roe v. Wade, U.S. abortion rates rose in 2023, reaching over 1 million, due to expanded access to abortion pills and increased out-of-state travel.
Telemedicine policies, donations, and shield laws protecting providers enabled medication abortions to account for 63% of all abortions.
However, low-income women of color face significant barriers.
Advocates fear restrictions under a Trump administration, including tighter FDA rules on abortion pills or enforcement of the Comstock Act.
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Honestly, I’m willing to bet that early-term abortions have risen when possible at least somewhat because women understand there’s a risk that if they miscarry or have other complications later into the term, doctors might be forced to endanger their lives in order to comply with christofascist nonsense. That is to say that pregnancies are now riskier to have thanks to these ridiculous, misogynist, theo-Nazi fucks.
System works as designed. They get to kill women and make life harder for minorities. And it’ll provide them with a pretext for further repression once they take power. Gotta save those babies!
