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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Jessica Glenza

Fewer US women received early and adequate prenatal care last year – CDC

a pregnant woman cradles her belly
From 2022 to 2023, there was a 1% decline in the number of pregnant patients who received prenatal care in their first trimester, dropping from 77% to 76.1%, the second such decline in two years. Photograph: Goja1/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Fewer women received early and adequate prenatal care in 2023, new data released this week by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows.

The small year-over-year decline comes amid tectonic shifts in women’s rights and access to reproductive healthcare in the US and in spite of a federal government initiative meant to improve prenatal care access. Seventeen states ban abortion at conception or soon after.

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