# @fivethirtyeight on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-04-11T16:07:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** 538 (@FiveThirtyEight) — https://gondola.cc/FiveThirtyEight

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Tens of thousands of Americans have navigated complications as they sought abortions in the six months following the end of Roe v. Wade. 

Around 66,510 people were unable to receive a legal abortion in their home state between July and December of 2022, according to a data set shared exclusively with FiveThirtyEight by #WeCount, a national research project led by the Society of Family Planning, a nonprofit that supports research on abortion and contraception.

The #WeCount data, plus additional data gathered by FiveThirtyEight from state health departments, abortion providers and abortion funds, shows that there has been both a reduction in the total number of abortions and a reshuffling in the location and methods of abortion in the months since the Dobbs decision. The data also highlights that, while providers and advocates have tried to adapt to these changes — opening new clinics, helping to fund people crossing state borders and shifting toward telehealth — the Supreme Court’s ruling has made those solutions precarious.

This data isn’t a perfect real-time snapshot of how abortion numbers are changing — it includes data from 77 percent of the country’s providers, while data from the clinics that didn’t report is an estimate. The researchers noted that numbers may shift in the future as they get more data — in fact, some numbers were revised between the first wave of the research published last fall and this new report. 

Meanwhile, many people are also ordering abortion pills online, through international pharmacies or groups like Aid Access, which ship medication abortion to places where it’s illegal. These abortions are not counted in #WeCount’s data, and they could make up a significant number of abortions — in addition to the ones that happen within the health care system. Read more by tapping the link in our bio. 📈 by Paroma Soni. #AbortionAccess #Dobbs #RoeVWade

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wecount, roevwade, abortionaccess, dobbs

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