Although state lawmakers pushing new abortion restrictions often say they’re just looking out for patients’ health, new research shows those concerns may be unjustified.
An Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) study looking at national emergency room data from 2009 to 2013 found that it’s very rare for people to visit emergency rooms for abortion-related reasons. Only 0.01 percent of all those visits by women aged 15-49 were related to abortions....