{"id":211017,"date":"2019-10-22T17:39:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T22:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=211017"},"modified":"2022-04-21T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T12:09:12","slug":"report-medication-abortion-nearly-40-percent-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/report-medication-abortion-nearly-40-percent-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Abortion pill accounts for nearly 40% of reported abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Guttmacher Institute has reported<\/a>\u00a0that medication abortion now accounts for nearly 40 percent (39%) of all reported abortions in 2017, an increase of 25 percent since 2014. According to the pro-abortion group’s data, in 2017, there were 339,640 medication abortions out of 862,320 total reported<\/a>. But although medication abortion percentages rose, the total number of reported abortions has gone down. Live Action News previously<\/a> reported that in 2017, abortions declined 7% from\u00a02014<\/a>\u00a0and 19% from 2011. In addition, by 2017, the abortion rate hit the lowest seen since Roe v Wade.<\/p>\n

In its “Abortion Incidence and Service Availability in the United States, 2017” report,<\/a>\u00a0Guttmacher, a former \u201cspecial affiliate<\/a>\u201d\u00a0of Planned Parenthood, also reported that in 2017, the majority of medication abortions were “provided by specialized clinics and at high volume facilities.” However, Guttmacher found that “a higher proportion of nonspecialized clinics (41%) than specialized abortion clinics (4%) offered only<\/em> early medication abortion.”<\/p>\n