{"id":273228,"date":"2022-07-31T13:13:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T18:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=273228"},"modified":"2022-07-29T18:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T23:09:38","slug":"guttmacher-multiple-abortion-closures-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/guttmacher-multiple-abortion-closures-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Guttmacher reports multiple abortion facility closures – but what do the numbers mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“One month post-Roe: at least 43 abortion clinics across 11 states have stopped offering abortion care,” according to Planned Parenthood’s former research arm and “special affiliate,” the Guttmacher Institute. The news follows the June 24 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It is important to note that \u2014 while Guttmacher does not mention this fact \u2014\u00a0some of these facilities have relocated to other states, where they are still offering abortions.<\/p>\n

The most recent abortion statistics for 2020 reveal<\/a> that\u00a0930,160 abortions were committed nationally\u00a0\u2014\u00a0an increase of 67,840 over the\u00a0862,320\u00a0abortions reported in\u00a02017. This translates into\u00a02,548 preborn human beings killed every day\u00a0in the U.S. by\u00a0abortion<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0approximately\u00a0106 per hour, 1.8 per minute, and one every 35 seconds.<\/p>\n

Facilities that ceased committing abortions<\/strong><\/p>\n

“As of July 24, 30 days after the fall of\u00a0Roe<\/em>, 11 states\u2014all in the South and Midwest\u2014had either banned abortion<\/a> completely (Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas) or implemented a ban on abortion starting at six weeks of pregnancy (Georgia, Ohio, South Carolina and Tennessee),” Guttmacher wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Four states were enforcing a ban on abortion starting at six weeks of pregnancy as of July 24 and two of them had fewer clinics providing abortions than before the Supreme Court decision,” Guttmacher wrote. These include Georgia, which Guttmacher claims has lost one abortion facility (13 facilities, previously 14) and Tennessee, which lost four facilities (3 facilities, previously 7). Ohio (9 facilities) and South Carolina (3 facilities) remained the same, they claimed.<\/p>\n

“Prior to the Supreme Court decision on June 24, these 11 states had a total of 71 clinics that provided abortion care. As of July 24, there were only 28 clinics still offering abortions, all located in the four states with six-week bans. Across these 11 states, the number of clinics offering abortions dropped by 43 in just one month,” Guttmacher added.<\/p>\n

Seven states are abortion free\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the Guttmacher report, “Seven states that have imposed total abortion bans<\/a> since June 24 containing only very limited or no exceptions no longer had a single clinic providing abortion care as of July 24.”<\/p>\n

These states included:<\/p>\n