4 Charts That Illustrate The Bleak State Of Abortion Rights In The U.S.

On Tuesday, NARAL Pro-Choice America released its annual report, “Who Decides?“, to provide an overview of the status of abortion rights across the country. The group didn’t give the U.S. very high marks. Twenty five states scored a failing grade on NARAL’s reproductive rights report card, giving the country an average score of just a “D.” The new scorecard comes on the heels of a separate report that awarded the U.S. an only slightly more generous “C-” grade on similar measures of reproductive health.

“In 2013, once again, we saw a litany of attacks against reproductive freedom in state legislatures across the country,” the group’s president, Ilyse Hogue, writes in a preface to the report. “In an environment of constant attacks on reproductive freedom, we play a lot of defense.”

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