The number of patients seeking abortions in the U.S. rose in 2020, reversing some 30 years of decline in the number of abortions.
That finding, in a report released by the Guttmacher Institute on Wednesday, comes as the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn decades of precedent guaranteeing abortion rights.
The number of abortions recorded by Guttmacher’s Abortion Provider Census rose to 930,160 in 2020, an 8% increase compared with 2017, the last time the data was collected.
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