According to a recent study by the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization, abortion rates are higher in parts of the world where it is illegal. It is more likely for an abortion to take place in the developing world, and fifty percent of those abortions are performed in an unsafe manner.
Abortion in the United States is legal, but only if the embryo is less than twenty four weeks old, when it would not be considered viable to live outside of the womb. In every state of the Union, abortion rates vary due to social stigma, whether or not health insurance plans cover abortions, and how far one must travel in order to have an abortion. African American women are most likely to have an abortion, while white women are the least likely. Ironically, women in the United States are more likely than men to disapprove of abortion. You can read more about it here.
It is also possible that more legal abortions are performed in states where there are higher numbers of abortion clinics. No one knows how many illegal abortions are performed in the United States, but one would imagine that, if North Dakota only had one abortion clinic, and someone lived on the opposite end of the state who wanted an abortion and could not get there, unpretty things would happen.
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