The number of women receiving legal abortions fell by more than 6% in the six months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a new report.
A report by the Society for Family Planning, an organization that analyzes abortion data, said there were 32,260 fewer abortions from July to December compared with the average number of monthly abortions while Roe was still in effect.
States with the biggest drop off in the number of abortions between July and December weren’t only states that enacted total bans on the procedure. States with the greatest increase in the number of abortions after Roe was overturned were Florida , Illinois , North Carolina , Colorado and Michigan .
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