24,000 Fewer Abortions in U.S. Since Roe v. Wade Overturned

A new study reveals there have been around 24,000 fewer abortions since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision last year.

FiveThirtyEight obtained the study from #WeCount, a national research project led by the Society of Family Planning, a nonprofit that supports research about abortion and contraception.

The study discovered that there were around 93,575 fewer abortions in states that limited abortion for at least one week in the nine-month period after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

From Breitbart:

While #WeCount did not collect data about the state of residence for women seeking abortions, data from state public health departments shows that more people traveled after the Supreme Court’s decision to obtain abortions.

“In Colorado, the share of out-of-state patients doubled in one year, from 14 percent in 2021 to 28 percent in 2022, when 17 percent of Colorado’s abortion patients were from Texas alone. In Florida, 9 percent of abortions that happened in the first three months of 2023 were performed on out-of-state residents, up from 8 percent in 2022 and 6 percent in 2021,” according to the report.