Abortions have dropped drastically in the U.S. state of Texas since the procedure became almost completely illegal in the state approximately five months ago.
Statistics from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission show that in the month after the state’s nearly complete ban on abortion went into effect, abortions in the state dropped from approximately 2,500 per month to just 68.
In June 2022, a U.S. Supreme Court decision returned the right to regulate abortion to state governments, ending over 40 years of nationwide court-imposed abortion on demand up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. In Texas, one of several states with a law criminalizing abortion still on the books, this meant abortion automatically became a crime unless the procedure was done to save the life of the mother.
