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On Wednesday, the Florida Supreme Court will hear arguments for and against allowing state voters to decide whether they want abortion access instead of lawmakers imposing restrictions. New data obtained by the Sun Sentinel paints a portrait of abortion in Florida, offering a clearer picture of who may be affected by the outcome of the court decision. There were 84,058 abortions performed in Florida last year, according to provisional 2023 data reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That figure reflects 5,800 more abortions than Florida reported on its own state website. It also represents an increase of 1,477 abortions since 2022, according to CDC data. Most abortions are for women in their 20s. In a trend solidified over the past five years, Florida teens are undergoing fewer abortions and now make up the smallest group of abortion patients. This change reflects a national trend, and researchers have found that a variety of factors have led to fewer unintended pregnancies in teens, including better contraceptive use and less sex among the youngest age group. In Florida, women in their twenties are the typical abortion patients, accounting for about 55% of all abortions in the state. In 2023, only 7% of aborted patients were under 20 years old and just over a third were over 30 years old.
Twenty-something women in Florida have abortions early in their pregnancy, usually before six weeks. The most used abortion method in 2023 was medication. Consistent with a national trend, medications caused more abortions in Florida than surgical procedures. In 2023, 46,641 women used medications to terminate a Paraguay WhatsApp Number pregnancy compared to 34,666 women who opted for a surgical procedure. This is a change from pre-pandemic trends in 2019 in Florida, when more abortions occurred through surgical methods. In Florida, a doctor can prescribe the abortion pill to women who are up to 10 weeks pregnant. The same counseling, ultrasound, and 24-hour waiting period requirements apply to all medical abortions as they do to surgical options. A change in when abortions are performed Much of the political debate over abortion in Florida over the past two years has focused on abortions performed late in pregnancy. In Florida there has been a change. After Roe v. was overturned. Wade, Florida passed a 15-week abortion ban that went into effect in July 2022.
The 2023 data is the first full year with the restriction in place, with no exceptions for rape or incest. Additionally, a 24-hour waiting period between a doctor's visit and an abortion went into effect in Florida in 2022. CDC data shows the effect of those changes. A look at abortions over the past five years shows that more abortions occur in Florida after six weeks of pregnancy. In 2023, 40% of abortions occurred in the first six weeks of pregnancy, but the majority took place after that period. Five years earlier, in 2019, 73% of abortions occurred in the first six weeks of pregnancy. As the abortion debate has heated up, some groups have argued that abortion is something Floridians turn to as a form of birth control. The 2023 data does not confirm this. In fact, six out of 10 women who had an abortion in Florida last year did so for the first time. Another quarter had only one previous abortion. Less than 17% had had two or more. "It's just not true that abortion is something that large numbers of people turn to as a form of birth control," Caitlin Knowles Myers, a Middlebury economist who studies reproductive health, previously told the New York Times. Most Floridians who have abortions are single When it comes to marital status, nearly three-quarters of Floridians who had abortions in 2023 are single and only 10% are married.
Twenty-something women in Florida have abortions early in their pregnancy, usually before six weeks. The most used abortion method in 2023 was medication. Consistent with a national trend, medications caused more abortions in Florida than surgical procedures. In 2023, 46,641 women used medications to terminate a Paraguay WhatsApp Number pregnancy compared to 34,666 women who opted for a surgical procedure. This is a change from pre-pandemic trends in 2019 in Florida, when more abortions occurred through surgical methods. In Florida, a doctor can prescribe the abortion pill to women who are up to 10 weeks pregnant. The same counseling, ultrasound, and 24-hour waiting period requirements apply to all medical abortions as they do to surgical options. A change in when abortions are performed Much of the political debate over abortion in Florida over the past two years has focused on abortions performed late in pregnancy. In Florida there has been a change. After Roe v. was overturned. Wade, Florida passed a 15-week abortion ban that went into effect in July 2022.
The 2023 data is the first full year with the restriction in place, with no exceptions for rape or incest. Additionally, a 24-hour waiting period between a doctor's visit and an abortion went into effect in Florida in 2022. CDC data shows the effect of those changes. A look at abortions over the past five years shows that more abortions occur in Florida after six weeks of pregnancy. In 2023, 40% of abortions occurred in the first six weeks of pregnancy, but the majority took place after that period. Five years earlier, in 2019, 73% of abortions occurred in the first six weeks of pregnancy. As the abortion debate has heated up, some groups have argued that abortion is something Floridians turn to as a form of birth control. The 2023 data does not confirm this. In fact, six out of 10 women who had an abortion in Florida last year did so for the first time. Another quarter had only one previous abortion. Less than 17% had had two or more. "It's just not true that abortion is something that large numbers of people turn to as a form of birth control," Caitlin Knowles Myers, a Middlebury economist who studies reproductive health, previously told the New York Times. Most Floridians who have abortions are single When it comes to marital status, nearly three-quarters of Floridians who had abortions in 2023 are single and only 10% are married.