Abortions are down 3% a year after the end of Roe v. Wade

Nationwide, legal abortions have fallen about 3% in the year since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, and aftershocks of the ruling continue to reverberate through American health care, politics, and culture.

Where is it located: Abortion access has effectively disappeared in some parts of the country as Republican lawmakers follow through on decades of promises to impose near-total bans if they could.

• Clinics in some blue states have seen a huge influx of new patients, many of them crossing state lines.
• Planned Parenthood of Illinois, a blue island in the red sea of ​​the Midwest, has seen a 54% jump in abortion patients in the past year, reported Tina Reed, Oriana González, and Torey Van Oot of Axios.

Whats Next: More abortion restrictions are likely to come into effect in the coming years.

• Some have been proposed but are tied up in court. Some Republican lawmakers may want to try to wait out the intense political backlash to Dobbs’ decision before going any further.

Reality check: They may be waiting a long time.

• “The last election surprised a lot of people because of how (abortion) really became a lightning rod and had such a significant impact on the outcome,” said Brendan Buck, a longtime aide to former House Speaker Paul Ryan..
• “I don’t know if the party has really figured out what to do about it.”
• Buck added that the Republican candidates “probably hope they can avoid the problem to some degree. But I guess we’re going to learn again, this isn’t going to go away, and that, again, it’s a political responsibility.” “