Based on the most recent data, Planned Parenthood health centers serve 36% of all clients obtaining care from publicly funded family planning centers, more than any other type of provider. Similarly, Planned Parenthood health centers serve 37% of clients obtaining care at health centers that receive Title X funding. The source for both statistics is this Guttmacher Institute report.

July 1, 2015

So far this year, states have enacted 51 new abortion restrictions; this brings the number of restrictions enacted since 2010 to 282. Although only about a dozen states remain in session as of July 1, these states may well enact additional restrictions before the end of the year. Following the recent pattern of increased restrictions in odd-numbered years (largely because not all legislatures are in session in even-numbered years), states have enacted more restrictions during the first half of this year than during all of last year (see chart). But nonetheless, the number of new restrictions this year is well below the 70 enacted in 2013, due in part to fewer restrictions being enacted in a handful of states — including Kansas, Oklahoma and Arizona — that had adopted multiple restrictions between 2011 and 2014.

Even as states continue to pass new abortion restrictions, the Supreme Court is poised to hear one, and maybe two, major abortion cases in the coming year. The Court might take a case challenging a 2013 Texas law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a local hospital and imposes Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) requirements on abortion clinics in the state. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the law in May. In June, the Supreme Court granted a request for an emergency stay, blocking enforcement of the provisions. Abortion rights supporters are widely expected to file a full appeal to the Supreme Court in the coming months (see The State of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the State of Texas: A Cautionary Tale). In addition, the Court is weighing whether or not to hear a case in the fall centering on Mississippi’s law requiring abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges.