Overview of Abortion Care Post Quiz 2025-26

1. Approximately how many abortions took place in the United States in 2017? (For comparison, there were 1.2 million c-sections in the US in 2017.)

2. How many states provide abortion coverage under Medicaid?

3. In order for a patient to give informed consent, they need to exhibit all of the following EXCEPT:

4. True/False: Carrying a pregnancy to term is safer than having an abortion.

5. In developing countries, what proportion of unintended pregnancies occur among women who have an unmet need for modern contraception?(Unmet need is defined as wanting to avoid a pregnancy but either not practicing contraception or are using traditional methods, which are less effective than modern methods.)?

6. When assessing the criteria for refusing care under the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists guidelines, a clinician may not:

7. True/False: In the United States abortion patients who lived in states with waiting period requirements and adolescents who lived in parental notification states traveled farther than those in states without such laws.