Abortions surge in Colorado amid 500% increase in patients from Texas – By John Ingold and Jennifer Brown (Colorado Sun) / July 27, 2023
Abortion clinics in Colorado say they are seeing a rise not only for abortion pill appointments but also abortions in later pregnancy.
Colorado provided more abortions last year than any year in almost four decades, nearing the peak set in the mid-1980s before more effective forms of birth control became widely available.
The 22% increase in the number of abortions that occurred in Colorado from 2021 to 2022 was due to the surge in patients from other states where terminating a pregnancy was severely restricted. Colorado saw a 500% increase in patients from Texas, which in 2021 banned abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. Abortions sought by people from Colorado increased slightly less than 2%.
There were 14,154 abortions in Colorado last year, including surgical abortions and those induced by medication. The last time the number of abortions was above 14,000 in the state was 1986, according to data from the state health department.
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