Undue burden? Texas' plunging abortion numbers

Plunging numbers of Texas abortions: Are clinic closings behind decline?

It seems pretty obvious that the closings probably have something to do with it.

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Texas abortion clinics performed 9,000 fewer abortions in the first full year after the state enacted tough new regulations on abortion clinics, providing some of the first hard data in what the Supreme Court has called the state’s “controlled experiment” in tightening abortion access for American women. The plunging number of Texas abortions comes amid a notable drop in abortions around the US. In general, states with open access to abortion are seeing declines similar to states with laws curtailing clinic access. But while the Associated Press found that abortions decreased by 12 percent across the US since 2010, the Texas rate dropped by 30 percent in the same span.

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Critics say a raft of new abortion-restrictive laws are pushing the statistics down, highlighting how those lost in the legal and cultural jumble tend to be the most vulnerable residents, including so-called “Janes”: poor, rural women and teenagers.

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Even so, the abortion decline in Texas is sharpening the constitutional focus on whether creating requirements that clinics can’t meet constitutes an “undue burden” on a women’s right to choose – especially given that 30 US states have enacted nearly 300 abortion restrictions since 2011.

Kind of illustrates why who gets to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy is crucial. It's not just Texas.

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