Lizzy McNeill
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375 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2018
last heard 18 Jul
Lizzy McNeill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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People administering or receiving abortions in these states face heavy penalties.
So, in big areas of the USA, abortion is now banned, which you would imagine would lead to a big drop in the number of abortions.
But actually, the number of abortions carried out in the US has increased.
So, what is going on?
One confused listener, Ben Crichton, asked us to look into the data behind the headlines.
The Gutzmacher Institute is a research and policy organisation whose aim is the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide.
That is to say, yes, they are partisan, but they currently have much more reliable data than the government.
More on that in a bit.
After Roe versus Wade, the rate of abortion in the US was not linear.
In the 1980s, the number of abortions in the US was between 1.2 and 1.5 million, depending on whose data you look at.
That's a rate of around 28 per thousand.
In the 2010s, this declined to a rate of 14 per thousand.
And you'd think that this decline would have accelerated after abortion was banned in 12 states.
But that is not what happened.
It does seem counterintuitive that the number of abortions has risen.
Even the experts were baffled.
We Count, which, by the way, is pro-abortion rights, looks at the amount of abortions per month.
And they've seen a 14% rise in monthly abortions from 84,000 to 96,000 abortions.
Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of these abortions happen in states where it is still legal to have abortions.
But what about the states we can't count?
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