Abortion in New Mexico is legal at all stages of pregnancy. The number of abortion clinics in New Mexico has declined over the years, with 26 in 1982, 20 in 1992 and 11 in 2014. There were 4,500 legal abortions in 2014. There were 7 facilities providing abortion in New Mexico in 2017, and 6 of those were clinics. In 2017, 91% of New Mexico counties had no clinics that provided abortions, and 48% of New Mexico women lived in those counties. [1]
In New Mexico politics, the Democratic Party of New Mexico supports access to abortion while the Republican Party of New Mexico opposes abortion, including calling for restricting or banning the procedure. [2] [3] [4]
History
Legislative history
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina and Oregon made reforms to their abortion laws, with most of these states providing more detailed medical guidance on when therapeutic abortions could be performed. [5] In 1969, the New Mexico legislature passed a law that made it a felony for anyone to provide a woman with an abortion unless it was needed to save her life, or because her pregnancy was a result of rape or incest. [6] The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 1973's Roe v. Wade barred states from regulating abortion in the first trimester; [5] consequently, New Mexico's 1969 abortion law became unenforceable. [6] (However, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, No. 19-1392, 597 U.S. ___ (2022) later in 2022. [7] [8]) In March 2019, the legislature considered a bill that would have repealed the 1969 law. While the New Mexico House of Representatives passed the repeal bill, it was defeated in the State Senate by a vote of 24–18. [6] In February 2021, the repeal bill passed the Senate; it was signed into law in March 2021. [9] The bill faced opposition from state Republicans. [2]
In 2017, New Mexico, Washington, Illinois, Alaska, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey allowed qualified non-physicians to prescribe drugs for medical abortions only. [10] New Mexico had few abortion restrictions in comparison to other states as of May 1, 2018. There are no waiting periods, no required parental consent, and no inability to use state funding for an abortion. [11]
In the cities of Hobbs, Clovis and Eunice, local ordinances were passed in 2022 and 2023 to prevent abortion clinics from operating. [12] These ordinances were all overwritten by a 2023 state law prohibiting local abortion bans. [13]
Clinic history
Between 1982 and 1992, the number of abortion clinics in the state decreased by six, going from 26 in 1982 to twenty in 1992. [14] In 2014, there were eleven facilities which provided abortions of which nine were abortion clinics. [15] [11] In 2014, 91% of the counties in the state did not have an abortion clinic. That year, 48% of women in the state aged 15–44 lived in a county without an abortion clinic. [16] In March 2016, there were six Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. [17] In 2017, Planned Parenthood closed three clinics in the state. This was done around their plans to try to consolidate reproductive services they offered in the New Mexico. [18] Later that year, there were three total Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. At the time, the population was 456,213 for women aged 15–49 of which two offered abortion services. [18]
Statistics
In the period between 1972 and 1974, there were zero recorded illegal abortion deaths in the state. [19] In 1990, 181,000 women in the state faced the risk of an unintended pregnancy. [14] Between 2011 and 2014, there was a 10% decline in the number of abortions performed in the state. [11] In 2013, there were 150 abortions among white women aged 15–19, 20 abortions for black women aged 15–19, 370 abortions for Hispanic women aged 15–19, and 70 abortions for women of all other races. [20] In 2014, 51% of adults said in a poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. [21] In 2017, the state had an infant mortality rate of 5.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. [22]
After Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022, the number of abortions in New Mexico more than tripled, primarily due to patients traveling from states with abortion bans. [23]
| Census division and state | Number | Rate | % change 1992–1996 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1995 | 1996 | 1992 | 1995 | 1996 | ||
| US Total | 1,528,930 | 1,363,690 | 1,365,730 | 25.9 | 22.9 | 22.9 | –12 |
| Mountain | 69,600 | 63,390 | 67,020 | 21 | 17.9 | 18.6 | –12 |
| Arizona | 20,600 | 18,120 | 19,310 | 24.1 | 19.1 | 19.8 | –18 |
| Colorado | 19,880 | 15,690 | 18,310 | 23.6 | 18 | 20.9 | –12 |
| Idaho | 1,710 | 1,500 | 1,600 | 7.2 | 5.8 | 6.1 | –15 |
| Montana | 3,300 | 3,010 | 2,900 | 18.2 | 16.2 | 15.6 | –14 |
| Nevada | 13,300 | 15,600 | 15,450 | 44.2 | 46.7 | 44.6 | 1 |
| New Mexico | 6,410 | 5,450 | 5,470 | 17.7 | 14.4 | 14.4 | –19 |
| Utah | 3,940 | 3,740 | 3,700 | 9.3 | 8.1 | 7.8 | –16 |
| Wyoming | 460 | 280 | 280 | 4.3 | 2.7 | 2.7 | –37 |
| Location | Residence | Occurrence | % obtained by
out-of-state residents |
Year | Ref | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Rate^ | Ratio^^ | No. | Rate^ | Ratio^^ | ||||
| New Mexico | 3,655 | 9.2 | 140 | 4,500 | 11.3 | 173 | 21 | 2014 | [25] |
| New Mexico | 3,502 | 8.9 | 142 | 4,573 | 11.6 | 185 | 27.0 | 2016 | [26] |
| ^number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44; ^^number of abortions per 1,000 live births | |||||||||
Abortion financing
Seventeen states including New Mexico used their own funds to cover all or most "medically necessary" abortions sought by low-income women under Medicaid, thirteen of which are required by state court orders to do so. [27] In 2010, the state had 1,270 publicly funded abortions, of which were 0 federally funded and 1,270 were state funded. [28] Public funding was still available in May 2018. [11]
Abortion rights views and activities
Women from the state participated in marches supporting abortion rights as part of a #StoptheBans movement in May 2019. [29]
Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, hundreds of abortion rights protesters rallied in Albuquerque. [30]
Anti-abortion views and activities
Violence
On December 6, 2007, Chad Altman and Sergio Baca were arrested for the arson of Dr. Curtis Boyd's clinic in Albuquerque. Baca's girlfriend had scheduled an appointment for an abortion at the clinic. [31] [32]
References
- ^ "State Facts About Abortion: New Mexico". Guttmacher Institute. 2022-06-28. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ a b McKee, Chris (2022-06-24). "What does the Supreme Court's abortion decision mean for New Mexico?". KRQE. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- ^ Porter, Kai (2022-06-25). "The future of abortion rights in New Mexico". KOB 4. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- ^ "NM Democrats weigh law protecting abortion rights". Albuquerque Journal. 24 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- ^ a b Buell, Samuel (1991-01-01). "Criminal Abortion Revisited". New York University Law Review. 66 (6): 1774–1831. PMID 11652642.
- ^ a b c "New Mexico Senate upholds dormant ban on abortion". Las Cruces Sun-News. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
- ^ de Vogue, Arinne (June 24, 2022). "Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade". CNN. Archived from the original on June 24, 2022. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
- ^ Howe, Amy (June 24, 2022). "Supreme Court overturns constitutional right to abortion". SCOTUSblog. Archived from the original on June 24, 2022. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
- ^ Nott, Robert (26 February 2021). "Governor signs bill repealing New Mexico abortion ban". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
- ^ "Study: Abortions Are Safe When Performed By Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Certified Nurse Midwives". Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d "State Facts About Abortion: New Mexico". Guttmacher Institute. 2016-01-26. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
- ^ Brooks, Brad (8 November 2022). "New Mexico city passes ordinance to block abortion clinics from operating". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
- ^ Lee, Morgan (2023-03-16). "New Mexico gov. signs bill overriding local abortion bans". AP News. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ a b Arndorfer, Elizabeth; Michael, Jodi; Moskowitz, Laura; Grant, Juli A.; Siebel, Liza (December 1998). A State-By-State Review of Abortion and Reproductive Rights. Diane Publishing. ISBN 9780788174810.
-
^ Gould, Rebecca Harrington, Skye.
"The number of abortion clinics in the US has plunged in the last decade — here's how many are in each state". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) - ^ Panetta, Grace; lee, Samantha (2018-08-04). "This is what could happen if Roe v. Wade fell". Business Insider (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2019-05-24. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ Bohatch, Emily. "27 states with the most Planned Parenthood clinics". thestate. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ a b "Here's Where Women Have Less Access to Planned Parenthood". Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- ^ Cates, Willard; Rochat, Roger (March 1976). "Illegal Abortions in the United States: 1972–1974". Family Planning Perspectives. 8 (2): 86–92. doi: 10.2307/2133995. JSTOR 2133995. PMID 1269687.
- ^ "No. of abortions among women aged 15–19, by state of residence, 2013 by racial group". Guttmacher Data Center. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ "Views about abortion by state - Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and Statistics". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- ^ "States pushing abortion bans have highest infant mortality rates". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^ "Abortions in New Mexico more than triple post-Dobbs". Source NM. 2023-12-11. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
- ^ Henshaw, Stanley K. (2005-06-15). "Abortion Incidence and Services in the United States, 1995-1996". Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 30: 263–270. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
- ^ Jatlaoui, Tara C. (2017). "Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2014". MMWR. Surveillance Summaries. 66 (24): 1–48. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.ss6624a1. ISSN 1546-0738. PMC 6289084. PMID 29166366.
- ^ Jatlaoui, Tara C. (2019). "Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2016". MMWR. Surveillance Summaries. 68 (11): 1–41. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.ss6811a1. ISSN 1546-0738. PMC 6289084. PMID 31774741.
- ^ Francis Roberta W. "Frequently Asked Questions". Equal Rights Amendment. Alice Paul Institute. Archived from the original on 2009-04-17. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
- ^ "Guttmacher Data Center". data.guttmacher.org. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ Bacon, John. "Abortion rights supporters' voices thunder at #StopTheBans rallies across the nation". USA Today. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^ Honeycutt, Jordan; Garate, Jessica (2022-06-24). "Hundreds gather at Tiguex Park to protest Roe v. Wade decision". KRQE News. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
- ^ "Suspects In Abortion Clinic Fire Plead Not Guilty - Albuquerque News Story - KOAT Albuquerque". 2011-07-13. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ " New Mexico: Did You Know? Archived 2011-06-22 at the Wayback Machine". NARAL Pro-Choice America. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011. Retrieved June 21, 2011.
Abortion in New Mexico is legal at all stages of pregnancy. The number of abortion clinics in New Mexico has declined over the years, with 26 in 1982, 20 in 1992 and 11 in 2014. There were 4,500 legal abortions in 2014. There were 7 facilities providing abortion in New Mexico in 2017, and 6 of those were clinics. In 2017, 91% of New Mexico counties had no clinics that provided abortions, and 48% of New Mexico women lived in those counties. [1]
In New Mexico politics, the Democratic Party of New Mexico supports access to abortion while the Republican Party of New Mexico opposes abortion, including calling for restricting or banning the procedure. [2] [3] [4]
History
Legislative history
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina and Oregon made reforms to their abortion laws, with most of these states providing more detailed medical guidance on when therapeutic abortions could be performed. [5] In 1969, the New Mexico legislature passed a law that made it a felony for anyone to provide a woman with an abortion unless it was needed to save her life, or because her pregnancy was a result of rape or incest. [6] The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 1973's Roe v. Wade barred states from regulating abortion in the first trimester; [5] consequently, New Mexico's 1969 abortion law became unenforceable. [6] (However, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, No. 19-1392, 597 U.S. ___ (2022) later in 2022. [7] [8]) In March 2019, the legislature considered a bill that would have repealed the 1969 law. While the New Mexico House of Representatives passed the repeal bill, it was defeated in the State Senate by a vote of 24–18. [6] In February 2021, the repeal bill passed the Senate; it was signed into law in March 2021. [9] The bill faced opposition from state Republicans. [2]
In 2017, New Mexico, Washington, Illinois, Alaska, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey allowed qualified non-physicians to prescribe drugs for medical abortions only. [10] New Mexico had few abortion restrictions in comparison to other states as of May 1, 2018. There are no waiting periods, no required parental consent, and no inability to use state funding for an abortion. [11]
In the cities of Hobbs, Clovis and Eunice, local ordinances were passed in 2022 and 2023 to prevent abortion clinics from operating. [12] These ordinances were all overwritten by a 2023 state law prohibiting local abortion bans. [13]
Clinic history
Between 1982 and 1992, the number of abortion clinics in the state decreased by six, going from 26 in 1982 to twenty in 1992. [14] In 2014, there were eleven facilities which provided abortions of which nine were abortion clinics. [15] [11] In 2014, 91% of the counties in the state did not have an abortion clinic. That year, 48% of women in the state aged 15–44 lived in a county without an abortion clinic. [16] In March 2016, there were six Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. [17] In 2017, Planned Parenthood closed three clinics in the state. This was done around their plans to try to consolidate reproductive services they offered in the New Mexico. [18] Later that year, there were three total Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. At the time, the population was 456,213 for women aged 15–49 of which two offered abortion services. [18]
Statistics
In the period between 1972 and 1974, there were zero recorded illegal abortion deaths in the state. [19] In 1990, 181,000 women in the state faced the risk of an unintended pregnancy. [14] Between 2011 and 2014, there was a 10% decline in the number of abortions performed in the state. [11] In 2013, there were 150 abortions among white women aged 15–19, 20 abortions for black women aged 15–19, 370 abortions for Hispanic women aged 15–19, and 70 abortions for women of all other races. [20] In 2014, 51% of adults said in a poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. [21] In 2017, the state had an infant mortality rate of 5.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. [22]
After Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022, the number of abortions in New Mexico more than tripled, primarily due to patients traveling from states with abortion bans. [23]
| Census division and state | Number | Rate | % change 1992–1996 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1995 | 1996 | 1992 | 1995 | 1996 | ||
| US Total | 1,528,930 | 1,363,690 | 1,365,730 | 25.9 | 22.9 | 22.9 | –12 |
| Mountain | 69,600 | 63,390 | 67,020 | 21 | 17.9 | 18.6 | –12 |
| Arizona | 20,600 | 18,120 | 19,310 | 24.1 | 19.1 | 19.8 | –18 |
| Colorado | 19,880 | 15,690 | 18,310 | 23.6 | 18 | 20.9 | –12 |
| Idaho | 1,710 | 1,500 | 1,600 | 7.2 | 5.8 | 6.1 | –15 |
| Montana | 3,300 | 3,010 | 2,900 | 18.2 | 16.2 | 15.6 | –14 |
| Nevada | 13,300 | 15,600 | 15,450 | 44.2 | 46.7 | 44.6 | 1 |
| New Mexico | 6,410 | 5,450 | 5,470 | 17.7 | 14.4 | 14.4 | –19 |
| Utah | 3,940 | 3,740 | 3,700 | 9.3 | 8.1 | 7.8 | –16 |
| Wyoming | 460 | 280 | 280 | 4.3 | 2.7 | 2.7 | –37 |
| Location | Residence | Occurrence | % obtained by
out-of-state residents |
Year | Ref | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Rate^ | Ratio^^ | No. | Rate^ | Ratio^^ | ||||
| New Mexico | 3,655 | 9.2 | 140 | 4,500 | 11.3 | 173 | 21 | 2014 | [25] |
| New Mexico | 3,502 | 8.9 | 142 | 4,573 | 11.6 | 185 | 27.0 | 2016 | [26] |
| ^number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44; ^^number of abortions per 1,000 live births | |||||||||
Abortion financing
Seventeen states including New Mexico used their own funds to cover all or most "medically necessary" abortions sought by low-income women under Medicaid, thirteen of which are required by state court orders to do so. [27] In 2010, the state had 1,270 publicly funded abortions, of which were 0 federally funded and 1,270 were state funded. [28] Public funding was still available in May 2018. [11]
Abortion rights views and activities
Women from the state participated in marches supporting abortion rights as part of a #StoptheBans movement in May 2019. [29]
Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, hundreds of abortion rights protesters rallied in Albuquerque. [30]
Anti-abortion views and activities
Violence
On December 6, 2007, Chad Altman and Sergio Baca were arrested for the arson of Dr. Curtis Boyd's clinic in Albuquerque. Baca's girlfriend had scheduled an appointment for an abortion at the clinic. [31] [32]
References
- ^ "State Facts About Abortion: New Mexico". Guttmacher Institute. 2022-06-28. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ a b McKee, Chris (2022-06-24). "What does the Supreme Court's abortion decision mean for New Mexico?". KRQE. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- ^ Porter, Kai (2022-06-25). "The future of abortion rights in New Mexico". KOB 4. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- ^ "NM Democrats weigh law protecting abortion rights". Albuquerque Journal. 24 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- ^ a b Buell, Samuel (1991-01-01). "Criminal Abortion Revisited". New York University Law Review. 66 (6): 1774–1831. PMID 11652642.
- ^ a b c "New Mexico Senate upholds dormant ban on abortion". Las Cruces Sun-News. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
- ^ de Vogue, Arinne (June 24, 2022). "Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade". CNN. Archived from the original on June 24, 2022. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
- ^ Howe, Amy (June 24, 2022). "Supreme Court overturns constitutional right to abortion". SCOTUSblog. Archived from the original on June 24, 2022. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
- ^ Nott, Robert (26 February 2021). "Governor signs bill repealing New Mexico abortion ban". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
- ^ "Study: Abortions Are Safe When Performed By Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Certified Nurse Midwives". Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d "State Facts About Abortion: New Mexico". Guttmacher Institute. 2016-01-26. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
- ^ Brooks, Brad (8 November 2022). "New Mexico city passes ordinance to block abortion clinics from operating". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
- ^ Lee, Morgan (2023-03-16). "New Mexico gov. signs bill overriding local abortion bans". AP News. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ a b Arndorfer, Elizabeth; Michael, Jodi; Moskowitz, Laura; Grant, Juli A.; Siebel, Liza (December 1998). A State-By-State Review of Abortion and Reproductive Rights. Diane Publishing. ISBN 9780788174810.
-
^ Gould, Rebecca Harrington, Skye.
"The number of abortion clinics in the US has plunged in the last decade — here's how many are in each state". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) - ^ Panetta, Grace; lee, Samantha (2018-08-04). "This is what could happen if Roe v. Wade fell". Business Insider (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2019-05-24. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ Bohatch, Emily. "27 states with the most Planned Parenthood clinics". thestate. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ a b "Here's Where Women Have Less Access to Planned Parenthood". Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- ^ Cates, Willard; Rochat, Roger (March 1976). "Illegal Abortions in the United States: 1972–1974". Family Planning Perspectives. 8 (2): 86–92. doi: 10.2307/2133995. JSTOR 2133995. PMID 1269687.
- ^ "No. of abortions among women aged 15–19, by state of residence, 2013 by racial group". Guttmacher Data Center. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ "Views about abortion by state - Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and Statistics". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- ^ "States pushing abortion bans have highest infant mortality rates". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^ "Abortions in New Mexico more than triple post-Dobbs". Source NM. 2023-12-11. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
- ^ Henshaw, Stanley K. (2005-06-15). "Abortion Incidence and Services in the United States, 1995-1996". Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 30: 263–270. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
- ^ Jatlaoui, Tara C. (2017). "Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2014". MMWR. Surveillance Summaries. 66 (24): 1–48. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.ss6624a1. ISSN 1546-0738. PMC 6289084. PMID 29166366.
- ^ Jatlaoui, Tara C. (2019). "Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2016". MMWR. Surveillance Summaries. 68 (11): 1–41. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.ss6811a1. ISSN 1546-0738. PMC 6289084. PMID 31774741.
- ^ Francis Roberta W. "Frequently Asked Questions". Equal Rights Amendment. Alice Paul Institute. Archived from the original on 2009-04-17. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
- ^ "Guttmacher Data Center". data.guttmacher.org. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ Bacon, John. "Abortion rights supporters' voices thunder at #StopTheBans rallies across the nation". USA Today. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^ Honeycutt, Jordan; Garate, Jessica (2022-06-24). "Hundreds gather at Tiguex Park to protest Roe v. Wade decision". KRQE News. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
- ^ "Suspects In Abortion Clinic Fire Plead Not Guilty - Albuquerque News Story - KOAT Albuquerque". 2011-07-13. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ " New Mexico: Did You Know? Archived 2011-06-22 at the Wayback Machine". NARAL Pro-Choice America. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011. Retrieved June 21, 2011.