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Anti-abortion protesters march past Planned Parenthood after

Abortion providers — and patients — are on the move, as state laws keep shifting

9:00am September 17, 2024

Clinics in states where most abortions are legal, such as Kansas and Illinois, are reporting an influx of inquiries from patients hundreds of miles away — and are expanding in response.

New data from the Guttmacher Institute shows the number of U.S. abortions rose in 2020, reversing a decades-long trend toward declining numbers. Pictured here is a Planned Parenthood center in 2018 in Chicago, Illinois — a state whose increase in aborti

With Roe on the precipice, Americans are having more abortions

12:23pm June 15, 2022

by Sarah McCammon

New data from the Guttmacher Institute shows the number of abortions rose in 2020, reversing a decades-long trend toward declining numbers.

U.S. Abortion Rate Continues Long-Term Decline In Most States

10:33am September 18, 2019

by Sarah McCammon

The rate fell again in the most recent Guttmacher Institute survey, continuing a decline since 1980.

The U.S. abortion rate is at the lowest recorded point since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.

U.S. Abortion Rate Falls To Lowest Level Since Roe v. Wade

5:12pm January 17, 2017

by Sarah McCammon

A report by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that backs legalized abortion, puts the 2014 rate at 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age — the lowest recorded rate since 1973.

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