Three years after US Supreme Court ROE V Wade, erasing the national right to abortion and paved the way for more than ten countries to prohibit the procedure, the number of miscarriages in the United States in the United States – including in some states remains The procedure is prohibited.
American abortion providers performed 1.14 million abortion in 2024, according to new data issued on Monday by #Count, a project for a family planning community that has followed the provision of abortion since 2022. This is the highest number in recent years.
“We are really surprised to see the numbers rising over time,” said Ushma Upadhyy, a professor at San Francisco, who works as a co -chair of the #Count #Count #Sae. “I did not really prohibit abortion people from the need to care for abortion. It made them difficult for them to be able to get it.”
Although most of the miscarriages documented in the #Count report occurred personally, there are increasing number of miscarriages through remote health care, including among patients who live in one of dozens of extra countries. This ban is almost all miscarriages. In a distance abortion, patients generally meet with a supply before receiving mail abortion. By December 2023, 19 % of miscarriages occurred through health care – but by December 2024, this share increased to 25 %.
In the past three months of 2024 alone, more than 70,000 miscarriages were made through remote health care. This abortion is especially popular in countries with large rural areas, such as Montana, Nevada and Hawaii.
A lot of increase in remote abortion can be attributed to the spread “Shield laws”. These controversial laws have been designed by at least eight states since the fall of Ru, and they are designed to protect abortion providers who treat women in the states that prohibit judicial prosecution by those countries.
The demand for miscarriages for shield arms has increased over the past two years. In July 2023, when abortion service providers in the first shield slices began, they facilitated less than 6000 miscarriages for people living in states who prohibit almost all abortion or health abortion operations. In December 2024, these service providers conducted nearly 14,000 abortion.
“There is more abortion that is taking place in Mississippi today more than it was before Dubs,” said Dr. Angel Foster, co -founder of the Massachusettus Project, who uses shield laws to charge abortion pills to about 2,500 patients per month. “This really talks about how much people can be accessed to care for abortion in my words before Dobbs and how to provide the Shield and Training Law remotely to this field.”
#I also collected information about the number of abortions reported to the government authorities in the states that contain the abortion in 2024. On average, the abortion witnessed completely prohibited 30 personal abortion only monthly.
All miscarriages allow an emergency miscarriage, but activists have long claimed that the out exceptions of the prohibition are tight and mysteriously written so that they are not applicable in practice. Since Roo, Dozens of women advance To say they were Refuse abortion in emergency situations.
At Upadehyay show, #wecount data re -support the claim that exceptions do not work.
“This looks too low,” said Upadhyay. “This is something I think should notice the prohibition of miscarriage and feel anxious.”
The future of shield laws has now been doubted, as anti -abortion activists try to test Durabness in court. Texas has filed a lawsuit against the New York doctor regarding accusations that she sent abortion pills to a woman in Texas, while Louisiana accused the same doctor of allegedly sending birth control pills to this state.
Access to a common abortion drug MifePristone is also under attack. Martin Macari, the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, and Robert F. A safe consideration Through more than 100 studies conducted across dozens of countries. Kennedy was specifically martyred Results a The defective analysis was paid by the combating abortion groups That claimed The complications rates resulting from taking MIFEPRISTONE are higher than previously known.
“It is clear that it indicates that at least, the mark must be changed,” Kennedy told Senator Missouri Josh Holie, a Republican, during a hearing in Congress.
Currently, Foster is still optimistic about the future of its work.
“There will be a point where growth stops. There are a limited number of people who suffer from miscarriage every year,” said Foster. “But I believe in our practice and inside the area of the shield law, we expect the request to continue.”
