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Section size for Abortion in the United States (53 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	18,103	18,103
Terminology	3,090	3,090
History	13	81,653
Early history and rise of anti-abortion legislation	34,780	34,780
Unsafe abortions	6,780	6,780
Sherri Finkbine	2,517	2,517
Pre-Roe precedents	6,760	6,760
Roe v. Wade	6,193	9,857
Doe v. Bolton	3,664	3,664
Planned Parenthood v. Casey	6,754	6,754
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization	14,192	14,192
Fetal homicide laws	2,352	2,352
Medical abortion	10,592	10,592
Legal status	52	70,548
Federal legislation	8,315	8,315
Penalties by state	19,383	19,383
State-by-state legal status	31,105	31,105
In response to the coronavirus pandemic	3,187	3,187
Sanctuary cities	8,506	8,506
Abortion financing	3,399	7,821
Abortion fund organizations	402	402
Medicaid	1,273	1,273
Private insurance	1,957	1,957
Mexico City policy	790	790
Qualifying requirements for abortion providers	1,952	1,952
Statistics	2,067	36,218
Number of abortions	5,766	5,766
Medical abortions	4,325	4,325
Abortion and religion	741	741
Abortion and ethnicity	2,990	2,990
In-state vs. out-of-state	3,738	3,738
Motherhood	1,764	1,764
Reasons for abortions	6,145	6,145
When women have abortions (by gestational age)	1,177	1,177
Safety of abortions	3,340	3,340
Birth control effects	4,165	4,165
Public opinion	7,244	29,338
By gender and age	1,286	1,286
By educational level	2,647	2,647
By gender, party, and region	1,561	1,561
By trimester of pregnancy	2,476	2,476
By circumstance or reasons	5,576	5,576
Additional polls	6,684	6,684
Intact dilation and extraction	1,864	1,864
Positions of political parties	11,628	11,628
Effects of legalization and impact of abortion bans	15,803	19,168
Travel to Mexico	3,365	3,365
Unintended live birth	6,797	6,797
See also	427	427
Notes	45	45
References	28	28
Further reading	2,092	2,092
External links	1,867	1,867
Total	303,719	303,719

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