The harms of gestational age abortion bans

Gestational Age Bans: Harmful at Any Stage of Pregnancy

States hostile to abortion ushered in an unprecedented wave of abortion bans in 2019, and legislatures across the South and Midwest are ...

The harms of gestational age abortion bans · Bans deny pregnant people the ability to make a decision that is best for their health, lives, and ...

SCIENCE SAYS _Pregnancy gestational duration limits and bans on ...

A preview of the dangerous future of abortion bans—Texas. Senate Bill ... Association of state gestational age limit abortion laws with infant.

Dobbs-era Abortion Bans and Restrictions: Early Insights about ...

This brief examines pregnancy loss management in the Dobbs era and explores how limiting or banning abortion may have negative consequences ...

Why Six-Week Abortion Bans Make It Impossible for Many People to ...

They instead require abortion providers to check for embryonic or fetal cardiac activity—what the laws erroneously refer to as a fetal heartbeat ...

Abortion Bans Will Result in More Women Dying

Although the most extreme health consequence of denying abortion care is mortality, pregnancy entails risks that are significant but can fall ...

Trauma of abortion restrictions and forced pregnancy

Unplanned pregnancies carry even greater risks of morbidity and mortality than planned pregnancies, and many states that have banned abortion already have less ...

How abortion bans make gestational age even less precise

Laws that ban abortion after a certain gestational age miss an important nuance: it's an imprecise calculation that can change over time.

State Abortion Bans Harm More Than 15 Million Women of Color

While people from all communities are harmed by these abortion bans, we find that women veterans, disabled women and women who are economically insecure are ...

Abortion Restrictions Affect Mortality Rate | Commonwealth Fund

The differences among states are not limited to pregnancy-related deaths. As shown in Exhibit 6, overall death rates for women of reproductive ...

The impact of hostile abortion legislation on the United States ...

One study estimated that the closure of abortion clinics and early gestational age limits increase maternal mortality by 6–15 and 38%, ...

Study finds higher maternal mortality rates in states with more ...

“Our study provides evidence that decreasing the number of abortion restrictions across the states may reduce incidence of death during pregnancy and postpartum ...

State Abortion Bans Will Harm Women and Families' Economic ...

The study determined that women who were forced to carry a pregnancy to term experienced a wide range of negative financial consequences, ...

An Abortion Ban With Unexpected Consequences for Older Mothers

Older women are more likely to carry fetuses with genetic disorders that often can't be detected until 15 weeks of pregnancy, beyond the limit set in a Senate ...

State-level Abortion Restrictions Will Negatively Impact Teens and ...

2. Relative to older people, teens are more likely to learn that they are pregnant further into their pregnancies. · 3. Pregnant teens face ...

Abortions Later in Pregnancy in a Post-Dobbs Era - KFF

An additional 16 states ban abortion at or near “viability”, the point where a fetus can survive outside the womb. Access to abortions later in ...

Beyond Roe: - Gestational Age Bans - Population Institute

Six-week bans are unconstitutional and can cause serious harm to pregnant people's health and well-being. “Arbitrary gestational age bans on abortion at six ...

State Abortion Bans Threaten Nearly 7 Million Black Women ...

The impact of this decision is particularly harmful for women of color, who are less likely to have access to high-quality, culturally competent health care and ...

Human Rights Crisis: Abortion in the United States After Dobbs

Abortion bans also harm women's health in ways unrelated to pregnancy complications. Abortion restrictions can increase the risk of violence for ...

The Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ban in ...

In short, denying all (or nearly all) wanted abortions will expose more people to the mortality risks of continuing pregnancy and thereby ...