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People are travelling to abortion-on-demand states like Vermont to circumvent state abortion bans.
By Bethany Blankley, for The Center Square
New data reveals a trend in abortion statistics: as mostly southern states enacted laws severely restricting abortion, women traveled across multiple state lines, primarily to northern states, to have them.
Traveling across state lines to have an abortion increased after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, according to a new Guttmacher Institute’s latest Monthly Abortion Provision Study and its new US Abortion Provision Dashboard.
In 2023, 171,300 women traveled to have abortions, up from 73,100 in 2019, according to the data.
Most went to the next closest or neighboring state where abortion is legal. The majority left southern states after over a dozen state legislatures banned or restricted abortions.
The most left Texas, approximately 35,500, with roughly 14,000 going to neighboring New Mexico. Overall, Texas women traveled to 17 states to have abortions after Texas’ abortion laws went into effect in August 2022.
The state receiving the most women traveling to have an abortion was Illinois. Approximately 37,300 women from 16 states traveled to Illinois to have an abortion, according to the data. Roughly half of them, 16,000 traveled to Illinois from southern states, according to an analysis of the data by The New York Times.
In the first half of 2023, abortions increased by an estimated 69%in Illinois, The New York Times reported. To meet the demand, the Illinois legislature and governor prioritized allocating millions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund abortion-related grants to support abortion providers statewide.
By contrast, roughly 32,000 babies were born in states that implemented abortion restrictions, a 2.3% increase, over the same time period, The Center Square reported.
Nationwide, in 2023, the first full year after Roe was overturned, an estimated 1,037,190 clinician-provided abortions occurred in states without a total abortion ban, according to Guttmacher data. The data shows that the number of abortions fluctuated every month last year, from the highest of nearly 95,000 last March to the lowest of nearly 82,000 last November.
The Guttmacher study “estimates the number of clinician-provided abortions” in each state that doesn’t have a total abortion ban from January 2023 through March 2024.
It also collects data about in-person procedural and medication abortions and medication abortions provided via telehealth and virtual providers. The data includes “telehealth abortions provided under shield laws to patients in states where abortion is not banned but telehealth provision of abortion is banned.” It also counts as an abortion as either having had a procedure or receiving medication.
The top five states where the most abortions occurred last year were California (179,610), New York (130,000), Illinois (90,540), Florida (85,220) andnew Jersey (58,380), according to an analysis of the Guttmacher data by The New York Times.
Florida’s number is expected to drop after its six-week abortion ban went into effect May 1.
So far, 16 states have legalized abortion on demand: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
Four states and the District of Columbia legalized abortion throughout an entire pregnancy: Colorado, New Jersey, Oregon and Vermont, The Center Square reported.
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Categories: Life&Death, National News
Welcome to the Death State! New road signs for Vermont. And a new logo too – “Bring us your old, your sick, your next generation: We murder ’em all!”
And then there’s our Maple Syrup.
Our GDP is now human sacrifices. They’ll even compost the empty flesh vessel – what’s in your topsoil, or rather who?
It’s not a laughing matter, but I couldn’t help but to do so after your maple syrup remark. 😂
We knew this would happen once Article 22 was ratified.
That said, however, with the proliferation of the abortion pill being available through the mail with no physician visit required, why leave home when you can suffer excruciating agony, dangerous adverse reactions, a lifetime of possible devastating reproductive complications, and the horror of passing and seeing your tiny dead baby in the isolated privacy of your own bedroom, bathroom, dorm room, or motel room?
And yet, we are seeing a statewide and nationwide campaign by state attorneys general and governors to criminalize and abolish pregnancy resource centers which offer free services to all clients and provide them with compassion, hope, and help to make truly informed decisions.
This is absolute insanity and wickedness.
It is also a picture-perfect example of how the leftist Marxists completely project their evil, demonic agenda through lies, false narratives, and gaslighting onto those in PRCs who are doing truly good and godly work which actually helps people and saves lives instead of destroying them.
Exactly, Martin!
I agree and also put into law mandatory vasectomies for males.
Responding to TJ that the equivalent to vasectomies is tubal ligation, not abortion. If women want to avoid pregnancy, they can choose tubal ligation. It is a logical fallacy to equate vasectomies with abortion – such a bad argument! An equally bad argument is to equate the death penalty for the guilty who commit heinous crimes with the taking of innocent life from conception through natural death: the “I’m for the death penalty, therefore I support abortion” logical fallacy. Without inalienable right to life, the State decides when your life has value, and when it doesn’t. Dems and Progressives have made it clear through their voting record that they do not care about your individual choices or your livelihood, and that they are pro-abortion, not pro-choice: they approve of making a baby through artificial means through fertility services legislation that was introduced because there is money to be made through fertility services. We will be paying for lifestyle choices of those that choose to delay parenthood because their natural fertility has declined. But, wait! There are too many people on the planet! Stop having babies by natural means – have them only through fertility services according to our provisions through your expensive health insurance!
Vermont holds the distinct position, along with three other states, of abortion on demand through all nine months. “It doesn’t happen here” is a vile excuse. We legislate based on what we are willing to allow, not on whether it happens. If you build it, they will come.
Absolutely, Renee!
We never heard one peep of testimony from either the ethically lofty physicians of the Vermont Medical Society, or 99% of legislators who vehemently insisted that late-term abortion did not, could not, and would not ever be committed in Vermont (and how dare we even suggest such a reprehensible thing), in condemnation of it.
Why?
Because if they stood up for preborn babies in later stages of gestation, their consciences would then have to admit that it doesn’t matter how big or advanced this baby is in the pregnancy, they are holding to a morally indefensible position. They reject basic biological science, choosing instead to cling to arbitrary, subjective, and faddish sliding-scale standards of when they think the state has the power to decide who lives or dies.
Sadly, Donald Trump has now missed the point when he capitulated to the trimester argument, failing to realize that a baby is a human is a person is a life worthy of protection from the moment of fertilization. This has nothing to do with—and never did—the gestational age of a preborn baby.
I’m rejoice and am glad for the Dobbs decision and that Roe was overturned, but to stop at and rejoice in the fact that each state can now decide, still doesn’t make their deciding who gets to live or die right.
That said, I 100% support a federal abortion ban from fertilization because that would simply agree with and enforce the truth that we are all endowed by our Creator with inherent value and dignity and the inalienable right to life; and with the Fourteenth Amendment which guarantees equal protection of the law, regardless of your age, size, or any other external characteristic.
TJ,
Can you please explain your rationale for advocating for something as drastic as mandatory vasectomies for all males?
I got lots to say, but I’d rather you first expound instead of your dropping such a bomb like you did here without one word of intelligent or informed explanation as to why.