The article below is from KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). Kansas majority of abortions is Caucasian women. New Mexico majority of abortions is Hispanic. If the Middle Class and Poor are struggling economically pregnancies are not welcome. But, we know the Trump years were full of hate of ethnics, especially immigrants. New Mexico shares a border with Mexico. There was a lot of trauma during those years. Why have babies if other relatives are mistreated and deported?
Reported Legal Abortions (click here) by Race of Women Who Obtained Abortion by the State of Occurrence
June 15, 2022
By Carla K. Johnson
The number and rate of U.S. abortions increased from 2017 to 2020 (click here) after a long decline, according to figures released Wednesday.
The report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, counted more than 930,000 abortions in the U.S. in 2020. That's up from about 862,000 abortions in 2017, when national abortion figures reached their lowest point since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized the procedure nationwide.
About one in five pregnancies ended in abortion in 2020, according to the report, which comes as the Supreme Court appears ready to overturn that decision....
The number and rate of U.S. abortions increased from 2017 to 2020 (click here) after a long decline, according to figures released Wednesday.
The report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, counted more than 930,000 abortions in the U.S. in 2020. That's up from about 862,000 abortions in 2017, when national abortion figures reached their lowest point since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized the procedure nationwide.
About one in five pregnancies ended in abortion in 2020, according to the report, which comes as the Supreme Court appears ready to overturn that decision....
The U.S. Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and has reaffirmed that right in subsequent decisions.
However, since 2010, the U.S. abortion landscape has grown increasingly restrictive as more states adopt laws hostile to abortion rights. Between January 1, 2011 and July 1, 2019, states enacted 483 new abortion restrictions, and these account for nearly 40% of all abortion restrictions enacted by states in the decades since Roe v. Wade. Some of the most common state-level abortion restrictions are parental notification or consent requirements for minors, limitations on public funding, mandated counseling designed to dissuade individuals from obtaining an abortion, mandated waiting periods before an abortion, and unnecessary and overly burdensome regulations on abortion facilities....
This explains the higher Caucasian rate in Kansas. Interesting, some Kansas residents didn't find services there and migrated to other states.
In 2017, (click here) 6,830 abortions were provided in Kansas, though not all abortions that occurred in Kansas were provided to state residents: Some patients may have traveled from other states, and some Kansas residents may have traveled to another state for an abortion. There was a a 5% decline in the abortion rate in Kansas between 2014 and 2017, from 12.9 to 12.2 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. Abortions in Kansas represent 0.8% of all abortions in the United States....
There is pubic funding (click here) for some abortions for life endangerment, rape and incest. That explains why Republicans wants no abortions for rape and incest. THEY DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR IT.
That is going to be a problem if states completely eliminate abortions, the states that do provide for women's health will also have to carry the cost for out of state patients when it is provided under public funding. California is already assessing it's capacity knowing there will be many women coming there for abortions.
The Robert's Court is horrible. Across the board it is horrible. It insists on dismantling federal law in favor of state's rights. It is a STRATEGY to make the Federalist Society happy.
Certiorari is a focus for the Robert's Court. Certiorari needs to be included in any approach to the court. The Robert's Court likes to deny the Writ of Certiorari and return the case to the lower courts. It is a very big deal for this Supreme Court.
Parties who are not satisfied with the decision of a lower court must petition the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case. The primary means to petition the court for review is to ask it to grant a writ of certiorari. This is a request that the Supreme Court order a lower court to send up the record of the case for review. The Court usually is not under any obligation to hear these cases, and it usually only does so if the case could have national significance, might harmonize conflicting decisions in the federal Circuit courts, and/or could have precedential value. In fact, the Court accepts 100-150 of the more than 7,000 cases that it is asked to review each year. Typically, the Court hears cases that have been decided in either an appropriate U.S. Court of Appeals or the highest Court in a given state (if the state court decided a Constitutional issue).
The Supreme Court has its own set of rules. According to these rules, four of the nine Justices must vote to accept a case. Five of the nine Justices must vote in order to grant a stay, e.g., a stay of execution in a death penalty case. Under certain instances, one Justice may grant a stay pending review by the entire Court.
