State health officials in Arkansas announced that the total number of abortions for 2023 was zero, in a state of 1.5 million women, while official records in South Dakota also show that zero abortions were performed that year.

NPR reported Thursday that government officials in nearly a dozen states with total or near-total abortion bans declared that zero or very few abortions took place in their states in 2023, which is the most recent year for which data is available.

Recorded in the first full year after the Supreme Court reversed the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion, those statistics have been applauded by anti-abortion activists. But doctors and researchers say that the reported numbers paint an inaccurate picture of the abortion landscape in those states.

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