According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, abortion is an important component of public health. The most recent data from 2019 offers a snapshot of which groups seek the procedure. As the data shows, barring access from the procedure would disproportionately affect young women.

As for the patients who are getting abortions, the most recent CDC data collected shows women with family incomes less than 100% the federal poverty level accounted for almost half of all abortion patients in 2014.

And in 2019, women in their 20s accounted for more than half of abortions. Black women had the highest rate; white women had the lowest.

“The majority of abortions are affecting Black and Hispanic mothers and young women,” said Dima Qato of USC’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. Qato studies health disparities including access to family planning and reproductive health.

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