(CNN) – The abortion policity landscape is moving in the United States, with the most important changes in the way and women made accessible in the past year. Although some countries recorded dramatic changes with new laws, the number of nationwide abortions recorded, with considerable shares in women turn to virtual clinics and travel across state care.
In 2024 there were more than 1 million abortions in the USA for the second time in a row, according to new data from the Guttmacher Institute, a research and political organization that focuses on sexual and reproductive health that supports abortion rights. When abortions exceeded 1 million in 2023, she marked the highest US abdominal rate for more than a decade and a jump of 10% compared to 2020, says Guttmacher.
Since the DobBS decision of the Supreme Court of the US Court revoked the right to abortion in June 2022, more than a dozen states have banned bans, and others have severely restricted access. In the middle of this law of laws, the trends in the abortion according to the state have varied.
Between 2023 and 2024 the number of abortions rose in 25 conditions or was the same in 25 conditions, but in 11 states the data from Guttmacher decreased. Fourteen states with abortion banks in 2024 were not included in the analysis.
According to Dobbs, Florida had become an important access point for people in the south, since widespread restrictions in the region were widespread. In 2023, 1 of 3 abortions occurred in Florida in the south – and about 1 out of 12 nationwide. A six -week ban was entered into force in May in May, which reduced the abortions by 14%. According to Guttmacher estimates, there were around 12,000 abortions in Florida less in 2024 in 2024 than in 2023.
The effects of a six -week ban that comes into force in South Carolina in September 2023 will also continue to be ripple, with 3,500 abortions in the federal state available in the state in 2024 than in 2023.
The abortion intended in Virginia rose between 2024 and 2023 by around 5,500 – the vast majority of them were made available to people who had traveled from another state.
“The latest abortion travel data is reminiscent of a clear memory that the effects of a state's abortion guidelines go far beyond its limits,” said Kimya Forouzan, main consultant of the state's main policy at the Guttmacher Institute. “For example, the significant increase in patients outside the state in Virginia can probably be attributed to Florida's six-week ban in May 2024. Although Virginia is hundreds of miles, Virginia is the second-fashioned state for Florida-Resistant, which has an approach of the countries after six-week pregnancy abortions.
A total of around 155,100 people crossed the state borders for an abortion in 2024, which according to Guttmacher data in states without overall bans – or more than 1 out of 7 – of abortion without overall bans. In 2023, for example, many people traveled across state borders, which is almost twice as high as the number that did this in 2020 before the Dobbs decision.
Illinois was an essential access point with around 35,000 abortions outside the state in 2024, which corresponds to almost 40% of the abortions provided in the state. Show guttmacher data, and North Carolina, Kansas and New Mexico each provided more than 10,000 people who sought abortion in 2024.
“Although this data cannot grasp the obstacles with which many abortion seekers were confronted or those who were unable to get care of care, the results underline the provision and commitment of patients, providers, supporters and support organizations,” said Isaac Maddow-Ret, data scientist at the Guttmacher Institute.
In Illinois, the state government, abortion providers and supporters have contributed to establishing a “robust infrastructure for the expansion of care and the connection between traveling patients with funds and navigation support”, according to the new Guttmacher report. “Obviation of abortion outside the state is often only possible due to the intensive efforts of providers, abortion, practical support organizations and patients themselves.”
According to Guttmacher report, expanded access to clinics that offer the abortion of medication by Telehealth also contributed to the increase in abortions in the USA. About 14% of abortions in 2024 were provided by online clinics, 10% in 2023 or an increase of around 40,000 abortions.
This number does not contain abortions that have been made available to people under shield laws that enable providers in certain states in which abortion remains legal to prescribe medication intercession medication to people with prohibitions or restrictions. Other studies indicate that in the second half of 2023 more than 40,000 people have accessed shield laws after abortions with telemedics.
Telehealth is “no available or preferred option for everyone who is looking for an abortion,” says Guttmacher, and the majority of abortion in 2024 was still made available via inpatient facilities. However, the abortion of medication is the most common option in the United States, which is almost two thirds of all abortions across the country.
In March, Dr. Marty Makary, Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, to the Senators in his hearing that he is planning to create an “expert coalition” to check data about Mifepriston, one of the two medication used in medication.
“I have no preceded plans for the Mifepriston Directive, to consider a solid, strong look at the data and to meet the professional scientists who have checked the data at the FDA, and to create an expert coalition to check the ongoing data that must be collected as part of the REMS program, the risk assessment and the strategy of the mitigation,” said Makary in the hearing. “If we want to collect data, we should look at it.”
Mifepristone was approved by the FDA decades ago and proved to be safe and effective, but it was the focus of the abortion restrictions in some countries since Roe v. Wade in 2022.
Jacqueline Howard from CNN contributed to this report.
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