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Jan 26, 2021 05:42 PM By Yvonne Stolworthy
Christine Bahls, Editor, Medical Daily A patient consults with a medical professional at an abortion clinic. ConwayStrategic/Flickr
It’s but a slight uptick, yet an uptick nonetheless, considering that abortion numbers have been on the decline in this country since 2009.
For the first time since then, the number of abortions is climbing. By 2018, the number rose to 619,591, according to the CDC. From 2009 to 2018, the number of abortions had dropped 22%, from 786,621. The rate of abortions, meaning the number of abortions per 1,000 women, and the ratio, meaning the number of abortions per 1,000 live births, went up 1% and 2%, respectively.
It was hard and it was something I just knew right away, remembers Jenn Chalifoux. She was 18 and on leave from college, at home in Long Island to receive treatment for anorexia, when she realized she was pregnant. Since a common side effect of anorexia is amenorrhea (a cessation of the menstrual cycle), missed periods didn t sound the alarm bell. She was surrounded by doctors, having blood work frequently, and on birth control. It didn t even occur to me that I might [be pregnant], she recalls. My medical team thought my menstrual cycle would return as I progressed in my recovery. When it didn t, months into her treatment, Chalifoux took a pregnancy test at a friend s house. It came back positive and a follow-up appointment with her doctor revealed that she was well into her second trimester. It was a shock.
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December 11, 2020
A health care worker walks through a protective barrier in the Covid-19 ward at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Tex., on December 4, 2020. (Mark Felix / AFP via Getty Images)
Defund. That one word has motivated thousands across the country to take to the streets this year to end police violence against Black Americans, and it has also become the punching bag for some Democratic politicians to explain their electoral misfortunes this cycle. But that word, defund, also explains why the United States surpassed 3,000 deaths from Covid-19 in a single day for the first time this week. That staggering number just one day’s toll from Covid-19 surpasses the number of Americans who died on 9/11. The federal government’s response to those attacks in 2001 was to spend $6 trillion dollars to address a so-called “national security emergency.” But when it comes to the national public health emergency brought on by Covid-19 that is the equivalent of 9/11 daily