Only 16 states allow nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants to perform medication abortions, and only five allow non-physicians to perform suction aspiration abortions.

Only 16 states allow nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants to perform medication abortions, and only five allow non-physicians to perform suction aspiration abortions.

Comparing data from the first six months of 2020 with the same period in 2023, the number of abortions jumped from 77,030 to 92,600 a 20% increase as the state became a refuge for women seeking ...

Apr. 20—HARTFORD — The state House of Representatives passed a bill strengthening abortion rights in Connecticut after debating into the night on Tuesday. The bill was passed 87-60, with four ...

Surgical abortions are in-clinic procedures that include aspiration abortion that uses suction to empty the uterus or dilation and evacuation (D&E), which combines suction and medical tools to ...

Meanwhile Wednesday, Alaska Superior Court Judge Josie Garton found unconstitutional a state law that said only a doctor licensed by the State Medical Board can perform an abortion in Alaska ...

A photograph shows contraception pills in a health center in Paris on July 1, 2022, which allows women to perform abortion by vacuum aspiration (or suction aspiration)n without going to the ...

She is now one of six PAs and midwives at her clinic who can offer aspiration abortions. To reach competency, she participated in 50 procedures and learned how to administer medication that eases ...