The Supreme Court's decision means that states now have the power to draft their own abortion legislation. At least 13 are implementing “trigger laws” to restrict access to the procedure
, public debate on the issue has become increasingly fraught. Many Americans are uninformed on the details of abortion.
This ignorance means they are unaware that most abortions in America are carried out with medication, rather than by surgery. According to a survey by the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research group, the share of terminations carried out with pills rose from 39% in 2017 to 54% in 2020 . That does not include the illicit market for these drugs, meaning the rate is probably even higher. And it has almost certainly risen further since.
It still has a grip on the popular imagination, nonetheless. According to a recent survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of, 38% of Americans reckoned that surgical termination was most common. Only 14% of respondents thought most abortions were performed with medication. A political divide exists too. Both Democrats and Republicans underestimated the prevalence of medication abortions, but Republicans were further off the mark.
Respondents in Europe had a better understanding of the procedure. In Britain, where 65% of abortions are carried out with a pill, 42% of respondents correctly identified it as the most common method. Although the French, Swedes and Danes all underestimated the prevalence of medication abortion in their countries, they too were far closer than the Americans.
Americans are also ill-informed about the safety of abortions—again, more so than their European counterparts. A study in 2015 by researchers at Planned Parenthood and Princeton University found that only 0.01% of women who took abortion pills experienced complications that required hospitalisation. This number is comparable to—or by some estimates slightly lower than—the frequency of problems arising from surgical abortions.
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