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Making abortion access more difficult and dangerous is a key tactic in the anti-choice movement’s strategy. Today, 87 percent of U.S. counties have no abortion provider, yet anti-choice lawmakers continue to impose a broad range of restrictions on women’s access to abortion.
- Refusal clauses and counseling bans ("gag rules") limit women's access to honest information and medical care, making it virtually impossible for some women to access abortion services altogether.
- Congress has imposed restrictions on abortion care for women who depend on the government for their health care needs, including women serving in our military.
- Numerous federal and state laws aggressively limit young women's access to abortion care and information.
- Anti-choice activists have developed "crisis pregnancy centers" to confuse, coerce, and mislead women in order to prevent them from exercising their constitutional right to choose.
- Anti-choice lawmakers have used propaganda and distorted scientific information as part of a strategy to instill fear in women to prevent them from exercising their right to choose.
- Clinic violence, murder, threats, and intimidation endanger doctors and patients and further restrict women’s access to reproductive-health care. While there are state and federal laws in place to protect women and doctors, this campaign of violence is still a very real threat to the right to choose.
Support for access to abortion
Despite anti-choice lawmakers' efforts to block women's access to abortion care, leading medical groups, including the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Medical Women’s Association oppose these obstacles. Medical professionals know that legal abortion is extremely safe, and that illegal abortion endangers women’s health and lives. Learn more by reading our fact sheet:
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