Anti-abortion and pro-choice advocates are engaged in a tug-of-war over the legalities and limits of abortion. Last year, over 1 million abortions took place in the U.S. healthcare system, the highest number in over a decade. Different states have varying gestational limits for abortion, with 14 states banning nearly all abortions starting at fertilization. Only two states ban abortions when cardiac activity is detected in an embryo, around six weeks. Arizona and Florida currently ban abortion at 15 weeks, but there is a push for a statewide ban after six weeks of pregnancy. Over half of the states have restrictions on abortion only at or after viability, while some have no limit at all.
The battle over abortion access remains in some states, where anti-abortion and pro-choice advocates are engaged in a tug-of-war over specific legalities and limits of the procedure.more than 1 million abortions took place in the U.S. health care system last year. That's the highest number in more than a decade, per theStates vary on the gestational limits of abortion, but 14 states have laws in effect banning nearly all abortions starting at fertilization.
More than half of states have restrictions in place only at or after viability, or have no limit at all.More than a dozen states ban abortions after the fetus is considered viable. Some laws that don't specify a limit say it's up to the abortion provider's "judgment" to determine whether a fetus is viable.Virginia is the only state that prohibits abortions starting in the pregnancy's third trimester, which starts at around 25 weeks, per Guttmacher.
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