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Private insurance policies cover abortion only in cases of life endangerment or if the woman's health is severely compromised.Most patients must receive state-directed counseling that includes information designed to discourage them from having an abortion, and then wait 24 hours before the procedure is provided.Counseling must be provided in person for women within 100 miles of the provider and must take place before the waiting period begins, thereby necessitating two trips to the facility.In Texas, the following restrictions on abortion were in effect as of June 28, 2022: In 2017, some 96% of Texas counties had no clinics that provided abortions, and 43% of Texas women lived in those counties.Of patients who had an abortion in 2014, one-third had to travel more than 25 miles one way to reach a facility. Some 38% of reproductive-age women lived in those counties and would have had to travel elsewhere to obtain an abortion. counties had no clinics providing abortions. These numbers represent a 25% decline in clinics from 2014, when there were 44 abortion-providing facilities overall, of which 28 were clinics. There were 35 facilities providing abortion in Texas in 2017, and 21 of those were clinics.Sixty percent of all abortions were provided at abortion clinics, 35% at nonspecialized clinics, 3% at hospitals and 1% at physicians' offices.

Sixteen percent of facilities in 2017 were abortion clinics (i.e., clinics where more than half of all patient visits were for abortion), 35% were nonspecialized clinics, 33% were hospitals and 16% were private physicians' offices. In 2017, there were 1,587 facilities providing abortion in the United States, representing a 5% decrease from the 1,671 facilities in 2014.Abortions in Texas represent 6.4% of all abortions in the United States. There was a a 3% decline in the abortion rate in Texas between 20, from 9.8 to 9.4 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. In 2017, 55,440 abortions were provided in Texas, though not all abortions that occurred in Texas were provided to state residents: Some patients may have traveled from other states, and some Texas residents may have traveled to another state for an abortion.The resulting abortion rate of 13.5 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age (15–44) represents an 8% decrease from the 2014 rate of 14.6. Approximately 862,320 abortions occurred in the United States in 2017.Some of the most common state-level abortion restrictions are parental notification or consent requirements for minors, limitations on public funding, mandated counseling designed to dissuade individuals from obtaining an abortion, mandated waiting periods before an abortion, and unnecessary and overly burdensome regulations on abortion facilities. Between Januand July 1, 2019, states enacted 483 new abortion restrictions, and these account for nearly 40% of all abortion restrictions enacted by states in the decades since Roe v. abortion landscape has grown increasingly restrictive as more states adopt laws hostile to abortion rights. Wade decision and has reaffirmed that right in subsequent decisions. Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion in the 1973 Roe v. In 2017, 862,320 abortions were provided in clinical settings in the United States. Each year, a broad cross section of people in the United States obtain abortions.
