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Change in Monthly Abortions Since Roe v. Wade Overturned

Data is Beautiful – this statistic is for legal abortions.

  • See also Washingtonian – The Abortion Battle on Virginia’s Border. When Roe fell, an abortion clinic moved from Tennessee to Virginia. Providing care has been complicated, but the staff won’t back down…Bristol is a twin city, half in Tennessee and half in Virginia, bisected by the main commercial strip downtown. But in June, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion, it created an absurdity: Abortion remained legal on the Virginia side of town but not on the Tennessee side, where a doctor had been offering abortions for more than 40 years. Unbowed, he rushed to open a new clinic—Bristol Women’s Health—about a mile up the road in Virginia. This has been one effect of the fall of Roe: clinics springing up on state borders in places where abortion access is scarce, part of what Rosenwinge calls the “intense scramble to get care for the women of the South.”

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