Minnesota
Minnesota abortions fell 2% in 2021, but likely to flip
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Abortions in Minnesota fell about 2% in 2021, however that decline is prone to shortly reverse within the state following the Supreme Courtroom’s determination to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The excessive courtroom’s motion has made Minnesota an island for authorized abortion within the Higher Midwest, and abortion suppliers say they’re getting ready for a pointy spike in ladies from close by states looking for abortion companies.
The Minnesota Division of Well being’s annual report Friday, required by regulation, confirmed that about 90% of ladies receiving abortions within the state have been Minnesotans. Of close by states, Wisconsin had by far probably the most ladies crossing state strains to get an abortion in Minnesota, with about 6% of the overall.
Sufferers from North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Michigan accounted for about 4%. Abortion companies have led to South Dakota and Wisconsin, and North Dakota’s ban is anticipated to take impact in late July barring authorized motion.
Greater than half of the abortions have been carried out by treatment reasonably than surgically.
Deliberate Parenthood of Minnesota carried out a lot of the state’s abortions in 2021 — about 70% — and Entire Ladies’s Well being was subsequent at about 10%.
About 5% of ladies present process abortion stated they have been doing it as a result of their bodily well being was at stake or as a result of being pregnant would impair main bodily perform. Fifty-five sufferers, or about 0.5%, stated they have been victims of rape or incest.
Of sufferers who reported the timing of their abortion, nearly 90% of abortions have been accomplished within the first trimester; just one abortion was accomplished within the third trimester, based on the report.
The report additionally corrected its 2020 knowledge to extend the variety of abortions carried out that 12 months by 1,231. The Division of Well being stated these studies weren’t turned in by a reporting clinic as a result of it was short-staffed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Trisha Ahmed is a corps member for the Related Press/Report for America Statehouse Information Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit nationwide service program that locations journalists in native newsrooms to report on undercovered points. Comply with Trisha Ahmed on Twitter.