page_title: Abortion in New York
section_title: Activities
hierarchical_section_title: Abortion in New York / Abortion rights activities / Activities
caption_attribution_description: Women's March in New York || 1.21.17
context_page_description: Abortion, also known as pregnancy termination, up to the 24th week of pregnancy was legalized in New York in 1970, three years before it was decriminalized for the entire United States with the Supreme Court's passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973. The Reproductive Health Act, passed in 2019 in NY, further allows for abortions past the 24th week of pregnancy if a woman’s health or life are at risk, or if the fetus is not viable.
  The number of abortion clinics in New York declined from 302 in 1982 to 95 in 2014, but increased to 113 in 2017, according to Guttmacher Institute. The abortion rate decreased from an estimated 39 abortions per 1000 women aged 15-44 in 1992 to 22 per 1000 in 2016, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
context_section_description: Café Altro Paradiso in New York City held a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood on May 19, 2019 to support the organization's abortion services.
caption: Calls to Save Planned Parenthood at 2017 New York City Women's March
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