Abortion bans are pushing people to terminate later in pregnancy
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Abortion bans are pushing people to terminate later in pregnancy

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Dr. Diane Horvath is an OB-GYN who has worked in abortion care over the last 15 years. But since the Supreme Court Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to deny access to abortion, she’s noticed a trend at her clinic in Maryland: abortion bans and gestational restrictions are forcing people who try to get abortions earlier in pregnancy are being pushed to get them later in pregnancy. “What has happened with a lot of our patients is that they've been trying to have an abortion for months, and the costs and barriers start to compound and become insurmountable until people are later in pregnancy.” Horvath elaborated that a common situation is this: somebody lives in a state with a near-total abortion ban, for example, Alabama or Florida, which has a six-week limit, a cut-off that occurs before many people even know they're pregnant. “It’s not hard to imagine how three, four or six weeks could pass while you navigate this,” Horvath said, noting that 60 percent of pregnant people who get an abortion are already parents. Not only did the first presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump include a very misinformed discussion about “late-term abortions” before Roe v. Wade was overturned, but the Republican Party adopted a “Make America Great Again” policy platform ahead of its national convention that stated in a 16-page document the party will oppose "late-term abortion.” Yet providers say these very policies being pushed by anti-abortion legislators are anecdotally pushing people to have to terminate their pregnancies in second and third trimesters.

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