A new report from the #WeCount national abortion counting effort documents continued steep declines in abortion across the U.S. in the six months following the Dobbs Supreme Court decision. CORE has analyzed these data with a Wisconsin focus here.
Investigators found that more than 32,000 abortion seekers across the country, including in Wisconsin, were unable to overcome the multiple financial, logistical, and emotional barriers to obtain desired abortion care in the six months post-Dobbs. This amounts to more than 5,000 fewer abortions each month.
In Wisconsin, a total of 3,540 fewer cumulative abortions, or 590 fewer abortions each month, took place between June and December 2022 compared to prior months.
The national findings document that additional abortion numbers in less-restrictive states do not make up for the declines in more-restrictive states, such as Wisconsin.
Research shows that those individuals forced to carry unwanted births to term will experience significant health, emotional, financial, and family-related consequences compared to those able to obtain desired abortion care.
For more:
- See CORE’s analysis of these new data.
- View news coverage of #WeCount and CORE’s analysis in The Cap Times and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.