page_title: Abortion in Delaware
section_title: Clinic history
hierarchical_section_title: Abortion in Delaware / History / Clinic history
caption_attribution_description: English: Number of abortion clinics in Delaware by year. Created using data linked on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LauraHale/Template:Abortion_by_US_state .
context_page_description: Abortion in Delaware is legal. 55% of adults said in a poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. There was a therapeutic exceptions in the state's legislative ban on abortions by 1900. Informed consent laws were on the books by 2007. In 2017, Sen. Bryan Townsend, D-Newark introduced legislation to try to make clear that abortion would remain legal in the state in case 1973's Roe v. Wade ruling was overturned. The legislation was subsequently updated. Attempts have been made to introduce mandatory ultrasound laws, but they failed to get out of committee. State legislators tried to move ahead the week at which a woman could get a legal abortion in 2019.
  There were seven abortion clinics in 1982, eight in 1992 and three in 2014. There were 2,920 legal abortions in the state in 2014 and 2,889 in 2015. The state had an active abortion rights community in 2019, participating in #StoptheBans movement with a protest at Rodney Square in Wilmington.
context_section_description: Between 1982 and 1992, the number of abortion clinics in the state increased by one, going from seven in 1982 to eight in 1992. In 2014, there were three abortion clinics in the state. In 2014, 33% of the counties in the state did not have an abortion clinic. That year, 18% of women in the state aged 15 – 44 lived in a county without an abortion clinic. In March 2016, there were three Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. In 2017, there were three Planned Parenthood clinics in a state with a population of 212,554 women aged 15 – 49 of which two offered abortion services. In 2018, first-trimester abortions in the state generally cost around US$500.
caption: Number of abortion clinics in Delaware by year
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