A quarter of all abortion clinics would close in US if Roe is overturned
By Taylor Johnson | Bloomberg
Much more than a quarter of the 790 abortion clinics working in the US would shut down if the Supreme Court docket overturns federal protections for abortions, according to a examine produced this week by Advancing New Expectations in Reproductive Wellbeing. The leading court’s ruling on a circumstance overturning Roe v. Wade, which assures the appropriate to an abortion in the US, is expected by the stop of this thirty day period. A leaked draft of an opinion showed that court would overrule the landmark precedent. In that situation, there are about a dozen states that have “trigger laws” on the publications, which would instantly make abortion illegal in those sites. Extra limits are predicted to comply with, and even forward of the ruling clinics in some states have stopped or restricted their functions. The research estimates 202 clinics would close throughout the place.
The study located that, regardless of the lawful headwinds, extra clinics opened up in 2021 than shut. There were 790 clinics working in the US final 12 months, up from 749 in 2018. The uptick involved the opening of 32 digital telehealth clinics that provide prescriptions for medication abortions. New Covid-era pointers produced the abortion pill, for the initial time, obtainable via mail. As a end result, it is now the most common way to close a pregnancy in the US.
There are vast geographical variations in the distribution of facilities, which are only probable to get worse if Roe is overturned. In the South, for case in point, there’s approximately 1 clinic for each and every 158,000 women of all ages of reproductive age. That number shrinks by a third in the northeast.
As of right now, California, New York, and Florida have the most clinics, though Florida is expected to further limit the procedure in gentle of the Supreme Court ruling.
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