In the United States, abortion is no longer a guaranteed right across the country since the Supreme Court reversed nearly 50-year-old case law in 2022. This does not prevent the number of voluntary terminations of pregnancies from increasing.
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With our correspondent in Washington, Guillaume Naudin
More than a million abortions over a full year, this has not happened since 2012. In total, between 2020 and 2023, the number of voluntary terminations of pregnancies increased by more than 10%. And yet, 2023 is the first full year since the end of the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion. A change in jurisprudence which led to total or partial bans in more than a dozen US states.
According to a report from the Guttmacher Institute, which advocates for the development of reproductive freedom and the improvement of reproductive health care, “ This increase shows that people continue to seek and obtain abortion care despite the drastic reduction in abortion access in many states “. Not surprisingly, the report shows that the largest increases are seen in states bordering those where abortion is banned. He also points out the fact that the share of medical abortions in the total increased from 53% in 2020 to 63% last year. Access to medical abortion is being challenged by pro-life groups before the Supreme Court. She must study everyone’s arguments at the end of March before a highly anticipated decision by the end of June.