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from the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights advocacy group, says over 1 million abortions occurred in the U.S. in 2023. "This represents a rate of 15.7 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age, and is a 10% increase since 2020," according to the report. Medication abortions using pills like mifepristone accounted for 63% of all U.S. abortions in 2023, a jump from 53% in 2020.
On a commercial stretch of Queens, New York, across from a hair-braiding salon and next to a McDonald’s, two security guards mark the entrance to the Jamaica Sexual Health Clinic. For decades this has been the neighbourhood’s go-to place for sti testing and hiv treatment. Joaquin Aracena, from the Bureau of Public Health Clinics, proudly shows its newest addition: the reproductive-health wing.
The fall of Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago fundamentally changed when, how and where women get abortions. Medication abortions have become more common despite the elimination of federal protections for the procedure, new data show. Medication abortion rose to account for nearly two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. in 2023, according to a report released Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. In 2020, medication abortion, a two-drug regimen approved to terminate pregnancies up to 10 weeks of gestation, accounted for 53% of U.S. procedures.
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