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Section size for Abortion in the United States (52 sections)
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(Top)	16,126	16,126
Terminology	3,137	3,137
History	13	79,923
Early history and rise of anti-abortion legislation	34,751	34,751
Unsafe abortions	6,846	6,846
Sherri Finkbine	2,517	2,517
Pre-Roe precedents	6,748	6,748
Roe v. Wade	6,198	9,862
Doe v. Bolton	3,664	3,664
Planned Parenthood v. Casey	6,754	6,754
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization	12,432	12,432
Travel to Mexico	4,142	4,142
Medical abortion	10,785	10,785
Legal status	52	80,326
Federal legislation	17,813	17,813
Penalties by state	19,870	19,870
State-by-state legal status	30,717	30,717
In response to the coronavirus pandemic	3,187	3,187
Sanctuary cities	8,687	8,687
Abortion financing	3,065	7,487
Abortion fund organizations	402	402
Medicaid	1,273	1,273
Private insurance	1,957	1,957
Mexico City policy	790	790
Qualifying requirements for abortion providers	1,952	1,952
Statistics	1,912	35,166
Number of abortions	5,766	5,766
Medical abortions	4,325	4,325
Abortion and religion	741	741
Abortion and ethnicity	2,995	2,995
In-state vs. out-of-state	3,034	3,034
Motherhood	1,764	1,764
Reasons for abortions	6,145	6,145
When women have abortions (by gestational age)	1,177	1,177
Safety of abortions	3,340	3,340
Birth control effects	3,967	3,967
Public opinion	7,034	29,131
By gender and age	1,286	1,286
By educational level	2,647	2,647
By gender, party, and region	1,564	1,564
By trimester of pregnancy	2,476	2,476
By circumstance or reasons	5,576	5,576
Additional polls	6,684	6,684
Intact dilation and extraction	1,864	1,864
Positions of political parties	10,989	10,989
Effects of legalization and impact of abortion bans	15,803	15,803
Unintended live birth	6,799	6,799
See also	406	406
Notes	45	45
References	28	28
Further reading	2,092	2,092
External links	1,855	1,855
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With regards about Florida

Can anyone please change and update Florida to the six week ban colour?

BlackSun3988 (talk) 04:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Assignment: Abortion and Ethnicity (WGST 2239)

This article may be improved if it expanded on the subsection of “Abortion and Ethnicity.” The statistics themselves do not provide much information on the racial disparities surrounding abortion in the United States. While the purpose of this section seems merely to be providing stats, it could be beneficial to include at least a link to a separate Wikipedia page that explores the reasons for the differences noted in the “Abortion and Ethnicity” section and the significance of such differences. For example, it is valuable to note that Black people have higher rates of abortion largely due to higher rates of unintended pregnancy. Black people have higher rates of unintended pregnancy primarily on account of systemic barriers that limit their access to healthcare and contraceptives. These barriers include economic disparities, less access to consistent and quality education, and fewer opportunities for steady employment, which all together impact their ability to afford and consistently and effectively use contraception. In addition, healthcare provider shortages in predominantly Black communities further limit the availability of reproductive health services. Structural inequalities and discrimination within the healthcare system further aggravate these issues.[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2835625/ Wellsew (talk) 10:32, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

With regards about Iowa

Can someone please change and update Iowa to the six week cutoff? (red color) The heartbeat bill has now been enforced. https://sbaprolife.org/newsroom/press-releases/win-ia-supreme-court-allows-heartbeat-law-to-go-into-effect 69.21.251.222 (talk) 20:35, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Policy Analysis - Summer Session24

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— Assignment last updated by A1iciaF (talk) 16:34, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Non-MOS compliant content temporarily removed from article

"This content was inserted in a section titled "Cases" inserted below the "See also" section. Why were articles with no clear connection to each other added to an independent section after the See Also section? Is this supposed to be part of the See Also section?

I am unable to fix it on-demand but. However, I am currently working on an unsafe abortions section for the article and it is likely I will have occasion to incorporate most of the links into that section. Pending that, I have moved the links here for here for now.

The existing section for unintended live births that could include Geri Santoro. There is already a section that links to Sherri Cheseen.

I'm not seeing the conviction of Gerardo Flores as an unsafe abortion case so I will have to do additional research to find content that would justify inclusion in a new or existing section of the article.

Cases

Becky Bell, an American teenage girl who died as a result of an unsafe abortion in 1988.
Sherri Chessen, an actress who had difficulty seeking an abortion for her thalidomide-deformed baby in 1962.
Gerardo Flores, convicted in 2005 on two counts of capital murder for giving his girlfriend, who was carrying twins, an at-home abortion.
Gianna Jessen, an American woman who was born alive in 1977 after an attempted saline abortion.
Rosie Jimenez, an American woman who was the first recorded death due to an unsafe abortion after federal Medicaid funds for abortions were removed by the Hyde Amendment in 1977.
Gerri Santoro, an American woman who died because of an unsafe abortion in 1964.

Ben Azura (talk) 10:17, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]