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Long-Term Decline in US Abortions Reverses, Showing Rising Need for Abortion as Supreme Court Is Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Title (Dublin Core)
Long-Term Decline in US Abortions Reverses, Showing Rising Need for Abortion as Supreme Court Is Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Description (Dublin Core)
This is a news story from The Guttmacher Institute. This article was written before the official Supreme Court decision was released on abortion. The article states that the 30 year decline in abortions has picked up with the threat of Roe v. Wade getting overturned. At the time this article is being entered in, Roe has been officially overturned by the Supreme Court. What is more interesting to me are the numbers given on abortions in 2020, when COVID was at its peak.
In 2020, there was 930,160 total abortions, which was an 8% increase from 862,320 abortions in 2017. In 2020, about 1 in 5 pregnancies ended in abortion. The increase in abortions was marked in an overall 6% decrease in births between 2017 and 2020.
The article does not discuss the social reasons why more abortions were happening in 2020 compared to other years, but in my own opinion, people's fears of hospitals being too full and the financial strain of lockdowns would have made it difficult to want to carry a baby to term. At the time, people were unsure of how long lockdowns and restrictions would last, so getting the pregnancy care needed to prevent issues giving birth would have been harder to come by.
In 2020, there was 930,160 total abortions, which was an 8% increase from 862,320 abortions in 2017. In 2020, about 1 in 5 pregnancies ended in abortion. The increase in abortions was marked in an overall 6% decrease in births between 2017 and 2020.
The article does not discuss the social reasons why more abortions were happening in 2020 compared to other years, but in my own opinion, people's fears of hospitals being too full and the financial strain of lockdowns would have made it difficult to want to carry a baby to term. At the time, people were unsure of how long lockdowns and restrictions would last, so getting the pregnancy care needed to prevent issues giving birth would have been harder to come by.
Date (Dublin Core)
June 15, 2022
Creator (Dublin Core)
The Guttmacher Institute
Rachel K. Jones
Jesse Philbin
Marielle Kirstein
Elizabeth Nash
Kimberley Lufkin
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
policy analysis
test story
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Government Federal
English
Healthcare
English
Science
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Supreme Court
abortion
Roe v. Wade
overturned
decrease
baby
data
speculation
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
abortion
Supreme Court
data
lockdown
economy
hospital
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
06/25/2022
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/26/2022
08/02/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
06/15/2022
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This item was submitted on June 25, 2022 by [anonymous user] using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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