Kim Gasper-Rabuck, left, and Maria Gaboury, right, stand next to each other and express opposing views on abortion in front of Planned Parenthood's Madison East clinic. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said on Feb. 13, 2024 that an anti-abortion campaign targeted people visited 600 Planned Parenthood locations around the country. © Ebony Cox / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY NETWORK
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(New York, NY) — Abortions are up in the U.S., despite recent bans in more than a dozen states since the repeal of Roe v. Wade. A report out Tuesday from the pro-choice group, the Guttmacher Institute finds that there were more than a million abortions nationwide in the 2023, a ten-percent jump since 2020 and the highest number in a decade. That number doesn’t count abortions that took place outside the formal U.S. healthcare system. States that share borders with states that have banned the procedure saw sharp increases since the Supreme Court ruling.
President Biden is making abortion rights a key issue of his 2024 re-election campaign. Biden says Donald Trump and his conservative-majority Supreme Court ripped away abortion rights from women when it struck down Roe v. Wade. The president says Republicans want to pass a national ban on abortion. Former President Donald Trump has said there is room for compromise when it comes to abortion legislation.
