Saturday, August 3, 2024

US Abortions 8-3-24

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/

https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2024/number-abortions-united-states-likely-be-higher-2023-2020

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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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