Lizzy McNeill

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More or Less · Are abortion numbers rising in the US? · 2 Aug 2025 podcast

To figure these out, we need to look at two different things.

Telehealth abortions and people who travel out of state.

So what does the data tell us about how telehealth is affecting the numbers, both in states where abortion is banned and the states where it's legal?

Telehealth means that healthcare providers working in states where abortion is legal can prescribe pills to people in states where abortions are banned.

And they do this by utilising shield laws.

These are the laws that protect those providers from being prosecuted by states where abortion is illegal.

And we count estimates that 12,330 abortions per month are administered using shield laws.

Now, the government does not currently count these numbers.

In fact, the most recent edition of the abortions failings report was published by the CDC in 2022.

Since then...

Nothing.

Now, this means that some states are claiming some really unrealistic numbers.

For example, officials in Arkansas claimed that the number of abortions recorded by their public health service was zero.

It's probably true that they recorded zero.

I mean, you can't record something if you're not counting it.

But it doesn't really tell us much about how many people are getting abortions in the places where it's banned.

The data shows that people are increasingly crossing state lines to access abortions.

Around 170,000 people per year make this journey.

But the rise in numbers in the states that do not have abortion bans is not just to do with people from out of state coming in.

The rise in the number of abortions might make people think that the banning of abortion has backfired and that the campaign is fighting against abortion bans of one.

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