Abortions are no longer a viable political issue. States have passed their abortion laws and can reflect the will of the voters in each State.
Most of all US Abortions are by pill with 50% using medications in 2023 and 63% using medications in 2024. The number of abortions in the US have increased since 2021.
Abortion data in the US from
2019 to 2021 shows a steady number around 600,000 per year. In 2023, abortions
increased to 878,000.
2019 607,720
2020 597,355
2021 625,978
2023 878,000
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/25/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-us/
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The abortion issue has been complicated by the use of medications to produce abortions. States can ban surgical abortions and enforce these bans, but abortion by medication is more difficult and doesn’t require a doctor’s prescription. The current debate over its use is between 7 and 9 weeks. That explains why most States are slow to pass their Abortion Laws. Women are choosing medication over surgery.
Miscarriages occur in 25% to 31% of all pregnancies and women are advised to have their pregnancy confirmed by a physician before they buy abortion medications and understand the side-effects of these medications.
I doesn’t look like women will need to travel all the way to the Josef Mengele Children’s Clinic is South America to get an abortion. In 1964, the Pope said: “The contraception pill is a no-no”. In 1974 Creighton University School of Medicine announced “natural family planning”. Now, the abortion medications are replacing surgeries. When abortion was legalized by the Supreme Court, I was asked what I thought about that. I said it was agnosticide and would result in fewer agnostics.
14 States ban abortion
Alabama
Arkansas
Idaho
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
N Dakota
Oklahoma
S Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
W Virginia
10 States have No Ban on abortion
Alaska
Colorado
DC
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
New Jersey
New Mexico
Oregon
Vermont
4 States have Bans at 6 weeks
Florida
Georgia
Iowa
S Carolina
2 States have Bans at 12 weeks
Nebraska
N Carolina
1 State has a Ban at 15 weeks
Arizona
1 State Bans at 18 weeks
Utah
2 States Ban at 20 weeks
Ohio
Wisconsin
1 State Bans at 22 weeks
Kansas
4 States Ban at 24 weeks
Massachusetts
Nevada
New York
Pennsylvania
1 State Bans after 3rd
Trimester
Virginia
10 States Ban after Viability
California
Connecticut
Delaware
Hawaii
Illinois
Maine
Montana
Rhode Island
Washington
Wyoming
https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-policies-abortion-bans
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Viability requires a definition to see where those States stand on abortion.
In general, infants that are
born very early are not considered to be viable until after 24 weeks
gestation. This means that if you give birth to an infant before they are 24
weeks old, their chance of surviving is usually less than 50 percent. Some
infants are born before 24 weeks gestation and do survive.
Now the States will deal with their voters over abortion.
Up to recently, abortion was allowed in cases of rape, incest, fetal abnormality or to save the life of the mother. It’s more complicated now. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/21/us/abortion-ban-exceptions.html
The States have implemented their abortion laws and abortion is no longer a viable political issue for Democrats.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea
Party Leader
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