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US Abortion Ban Exceptions

The presence and effectiveness of exceptions to save the pregnant person's life in US state-level abortion bans

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Jan 29, 2026
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what percentage of women abort due to being raped?

Multiple national studies and reporting syntheses show that abortions directly attributed to rape make up a very small share of all abortions—commonly cited at —while the outcomes of pregnancies that ...

Jan 7, 2026
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Which U.S. states currently ban abortions even to save the mother’s life?

No credible reporting shows any U.S. state currently bans abortion with no exception to save the pregnant person’s life; nearly all state-level total bans or near-total bans include a life-of-the-moth...

Feb 5, 2026

How many rape that end in pregnancy

Published research and federal public-health summaries place the number of pregnancies that result from on a spectrum: a long‑standing annual estimate of roughly 32,000 pregnancies comes from a nation...

Jan 20, 2026

What federal or state datasets track reasons for abortion and how complete are they?

Federal surveillance systems and academic datasets together provide the primary public record on abortions in the United States, but virtually none of the routinely published, nationwide data sources ...

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