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Section sizes Section size forAbortion in the United States (59 sections) Section name Byte count Prose size (words) Header Total Header Total (Top) 10,621 10,621 581 581 Terminology 4,403 4,403 146 146 History 13 80,189 0 4,905 Early history and rise of anti-abortion legislation 30,891 30,891 1,668 1,668 Unsafe abortions 6,779 6,779 354 354 Sherri Finkbine 2,517 2,517 158 158 Pre-Roe precedents 5,075 5,075 433 433 Roe v. Wade 6,193 9,857 671 781 Doe v. Bolton 3,664 3,664 110 110 Religious response to legalization of abortion 3,266 3,266 152 152 Planned Parenthood v. Casey 6,753 6,753 664 664 Federal provision for telemedical abortions 859 859 63 63 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization 14,179 14,179 632 632 Fetal homicide laws 2,352 2,352 149 149 Medical abortion and telemedical access 2,248 30,857 111 1,470 History 23,260 27,546 885 1,250 FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine 2,598 2,598 167 167 Subsection H 1,688 1,688 198 198 Telemedical abortion 1,063 1,063 109 109 Legal status 52 68,665 0 2,244 Federal legislation 8,278 8,278 338 338 Penalties by state 16,821 16,821 140 140 State-by-state legal status 31,769 31,769 1,363 1,363 In response to the coronavirus pandemic 3,187 3,187 209 209 Sanctuary cities 8,558 8,558 194 194 Abortion financing 3,395 8,206 175 349 Abortion fund organizations 402 402 41 41 Medicaid 1,272 1,272 76 76 Private insurance 1,955 1,955 0 0 Mexico City policy 1,182 1,182 57 57 Qualifying requirements for abortion providers 1,949 1,949 105 105 Statistics 2,067 36,062 48 1,528 Number of abortions 5,766 5,766 240 240 Medical abortions 4,325 4,325 190 190 Abortion and religion 741 741 68 68 Abortion and ethnicity 2,836 2,836 105 105 In-state vs. out-of-state 3,738 3,738 334 334 Motherhood 1,764 1,764 19 19 Reasons for abortions 6,145 6,145 141 141 When women have abortions (by gestational age) 1,177 1,177 114 114 Safety of abortions 3,338 3,338 115 115 Birth control effects 4,165 4,165 154 154 Public opinion 10,286 32,633 662 1,295 By gender and age 1,500 1,500 33 33 By educational level 2,646 2,646 60 60 By gender, party, and region 1,561 1,561 63 63 By trimester of pregnancy 2,475 2,475 88 88 By circumstance or reasons 5,576 5,576 219 219 Additional polls 6,725 6,725 58 58 Intact dilation and extraction 1,864 1,864 112 112 Positions of political parties 11,909 11,909 778 778 Effects of legalization and impact of abortion bans 15,889 19,298 642 821 Travel to Mexico 3,409 3,409 179 179 Unintended live birth 6,797 6,797 110 110 See also 427 427 0 0 Notes 45 45 0 0 References 28 28 0 0 Further reading 2,092 2,092 0 0 External links 1,867 1,867 0 0 Total 318,400 318,400 14,481 14,481

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Please change (and add the following sections) beginning at “Social and Economic Effects of Legalization and Impact of Abortion Bans” through the end of the “LGBTQ+ Perspectives on Abortion Rights” subsection to the following verbatim text:

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• • Please change** the section beginning at “Social and Economic Effects of Legalization and Impact of Abortion Bans” through the end of the “LGBTQ+ Perspectives on Abortion Rights” subsection **to** the following verbatim text:

Expanding on the effects of abortion legislation—such as reduced self-abortions—research has shown that abortion access also boosts women’s educational and economic outcomes. Access to abortion permits stronger workforce participation and economic stability. Chapter 1 of the Playbook for the Advancement of Women in the Economy, authored by the Center for American Progress (CAP), notes that 60 percent of moderate Republicans and 72 percent of conservative Democrats support abortion in all or most cases.^[1]

However, the Hyde Amendment—which bars federal funds from financing abortion care—means that overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022 disproportionately affects disadvantaged socioeconomic groups, many of whom rely on public insurance.^[2]

Archival data from the 1970s reveal economic benefits following abortion legalization: CAP reports that pre-Roe removal of anti-abortion laws increased Black women’s labor force participation by six percentage points—about one million additional workers at October 2023 rates—and that a child not born due to legal abortion access was 40 percent more likely to avoid poverty. Post-reform, the likelihood of attending college and entering professional occupations also rose.^[3] The Institute for Women’s Policy Research finds correlations between abortion bans and declining workforce growth, especially around the 2022 Dobbs decision.^[4] Over the past two decades, restricted abortion access, reduced healthcare coverage, and lower labor-force participation have coincided with increasingly restrictive abortion legislation.

Samuel Roth, the Jewish-American publisher and pioneer of adult book distribution in the U.S. (as detailed in prior context), expressed deeply self-loathing and antisemitic views in his 1934 book Jews Must Live: An Account of the Persecution of the World by Israel on All the Frontiers of Civilization.Pages 170–171 (Chapter on "The Jew as a Physician"):"The young girl of unsteady morals is Dr. Grubnyak's legitimate prey. Poor thing, she never knows whether she's coming or going, so shifting and uncertain are her lunar derangements. If she is really enciente, Dr. Grubnyak sends her to his favorite abortionist who returns to him almost half of the charge for the operation. If she is not, he sends her to the abortionist anyway. A Jewish abortionist I know, confided in me that a good percentage of the girls the Dr. Grubnyak of the neighborhood sends to him are not in need of an operation. But he pretends to perform the operation, the unfortunate creatures pay dearly for it, and no one but he and Dr. Grubnyak are the richer for it!""Context: Roth accuses Jewish doctors of running vice rings disguised as medical services, profiting from women's desperation. Abortion is framed as obscene exploitation, akin to pornography in its commodification of sex and bodies.Cocopereid (talk)08:46, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not a reliable source -- Wikipedia's own article for Samuel Roth describes the referenced text as "a collection of autobiographical and polemical reflections about his Jewish identity", not something academic or scientific in nature.

Even beyond the anecdotal nature of the source, this doesn't add anything meaningful to the topic.Pbrandt328 (talk)18:37, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In the table for the polling section, it displays 52% in the pro life column for the may 2023 row, despite the fact that the paragraph above says that in this same poll, 52% of Americans are pro choice (not pro life). Someone should check to see which is correct.~2025-37809-18 (talk)04:54, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I came here for the same reason-- this is a simple and probably unintentional typographical error that misrepresents the statistics. The 2023 Gallup study does in fact show 52% supporting pro-choice and 44% showing pro-life.

There are also now two newsurveys from Gallup that should be included: May 2024 (54% pro-choice and 41% pro-life) and May 2025 (51% pro-choice and 43% pro-life).Pbrandt328 (talk)18:13, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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