{"id":1018,"date":"2024-01-15T07:06:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=1018"},"modified":"2024-01-15T07:49:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:49:46","slug":"women_detail_6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=1018","title":{"rendered":"WOMEN_DETAIL_6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">WOMEN<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\"><strong><strong>OCTOBER 25<\/strong><\/strong>,<strong> 2023<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overturning Roe v. Wade Led to More Abortions Overall, According to New Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Nancy\u2019s Nook offers answers for desperate patients, but former members have said the advice isn\u2019t always accurate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"http:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PauleyMadison-2-web.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-930 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<ul>\n<li>MADISON PAULY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Reporter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20231025-i-will-decide.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-623\" style=\"width:760px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20231025-i-will-decide.webp 321w, https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20231025-i-will-decide-300x168.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Mother Jones illustration; Getty<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Abortion-rights opponents<\/strong>&nbsp;have long said their goal is to end abortion nationwide. So when they succeeded in overturning&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade&nbsp;<\/em>in June 2022, it seemed to be the closest they\u2019d ever come.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet\u00a0new data\u00a0is making it increasingly clear that in the 12 months after the court ended the national right to abortion, licensed clinicians provided slightly more abortions nationwide, not fewer. According to numbers released Tuesday by the\u00a0Society of Family Planning, a professional association for healthcare providers who specialize in abortion and contraception, even as 14 states enacted near-total bans on abortion, the number of abortions performed in states bordering the new abortion deserts surged, making up the difference. In particular, California, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, and New Mexico saw their monthly abortion numbers skyrocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report, the fourth installment in the Society of Family Planning\u2019s\u00a0#WeCount project, tallies a year\u2019s worth of medication and\u00a0other abortions reported by licensed providers working in brick-and-mortar abortion clinics, private medical offices, telehealth clinics, and hospitals. The researchers did not attempt to count self-managed abortions. Their findings are in line with\u00a0research released last month\u00a0by the Guttmacher Institute, which used a statistical model, historical data, and surveys to estimate that 46,000 more abortions took place in the first six months of 2023 compared to the first six months of 2020. \u201cWe\u2019re using two different methodologies and finding more or less the same patterns,\u201d says Rachel Jones, principal research scientist at Guttmacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new data underscores the argument from abortion-rights advocates that abortion bans don\u2019t stop abortions. But the overall slight rise in abortion numbers nationwide \u201cis not evidence that the bans are not working,\u201d warns Ushma Upadhyay, #WeCount co-chair and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. \u201cWhat actually happened during these 12 months is that abortion access plummeted to zero in some states, while increasing to meet the acute need in others.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meeting that need has required a monumental effort across the abortion care infrastructure. Providers\u00a0relocated or opened new clinics\u00a0while advocates switched into overdrive, operating networks of organizations that provide\u00a0funding,\u00a0support, and\u00a0information\u00a0to scared and confused patients. Since\u00a0<em>Dobbs<\/em>, at least\u00a0114 facilities\u00a0have raised limits on how late in pregnancy they will perform abortions, expanding options for patients seeking an abortion after the first trimester, according to recent UCSF research. State and municipal governments set aside\u00a0nearly $208 million<em>\u00a0<\/em>to pay for abortion, contraception, and support service\u2014including a $20 million budget line item in California paying for out-of-state patients to travel there for abortions. Donations to abortion funds soared, too\u2014at least\u00a0temporarily. Meanwhile, virtual clinics that provide abortion pills by mail have grown steadily\u00a0since\u00a02020, when a federal court (later followed by the FDA) halted an old rule requiring patients to pick up the medication from a clinic in person. Since\u00a0<em>Dobbs,\u00a0<\/em>the average monthly number of abortions provided by virtual-only clinics increased by 72 percent, according to the data released Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of these changes add up to expanded access in states that protect abortion\u2014benefitting both in- and out-of-state patients. Yet this new normal is fragile.\u00a0The Supreme Court is currently considering whether to take up a case that could eliminate access to the common abortion medication mifepristone.\u00a0The state supreme court in Florida, another surge state, is currently considering whether to affirm a 15-week ban on abortion; if it does, a\u00a06-week ban\u00a0will take effect shortly afterward. Amber Gavin, vice president of advocacy and operations at A Woman\u2019s Choice, an independent clinic with locations in North Carolina and Florida, is awaiting that decision nervously. \u201cI\u2019m truly not sure where the thousands of people across the Southeast who need abortion care after six weeks will turn to, as many of our abortion clinics are at capacity and it could take weeks for folks to get an appointment,\u201d Gavin says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, the curse is time: Every week it takes make a decision, find an appointment, and pull together the money\u2014then arrange time off work, childcare, and travel\u2014pushes a patient further into pregnancy. Take too long, and you could\u00a0pass gestational limits\u00a0in surrounding states, or require a more expensive and time-consuming procedure. Megan Jeyifo, the executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund, says she hears stories about \u201cthe difficulty of parsing through disinformation and fake abortion clinics, confusion regarding legality, worry about costs and travel barriers, lack of available appointments in surge states, and delays due to securing time off from work or childcare.\u201d Before\u00a0<em>Dobbs<\/em>, the average caller to the Chicago Abortion Fund\u2019s hotline was 9.9 weeks into pregnancy; after, that figure rose to 15.6 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could&nbsp;<em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;not only have led to overall increases in abortion, but also caused more people to get abortions later in pregnancy? \u201cIt\u2019s exactly the question that everyone is asking,\u201d Upadhyay says. \u201cIt\u2019s important to know all of the effects of these bans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overturning Roe v. Wade Led to More Abortions Overall, According to New Research Abortion-rights opponents&nbsp;have long said their goal is to end abortion nationwide. So when they succeeded in overturning&nbsp;Roe v. Wade&nbsp;in June 2022, it seemed to be the closest they\u2019d ever come.&nbsp; Yet\u00a0new data\u00a0is making it increasingly clear that in the 12 months after&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=1018\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WOMEN_DETAIL_6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":519,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1018\/revisions\/1045"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}