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Federal surveillance shows roughly 613,000 legal induced abortions reported in 2022 (613,383 from 48 reporting areas; 609,360 for 47 continuous-reporting areas) . Independent research efforts and inst...
Recent reporting and specialist data projects estimate that U.S. abortions in 2024 ranged from roughly 1.05 million to 1.14 million, depending on the source and methodology: Guttmacher’s monthly provi...
Available reporting shows there is no single list of states that universally allow “abortion up to the moment of birth”; instead, states vary — some have no term limits, some permit abortions up to vi...
Over the past two decades Black women have experienced substantially higher abortion rates than White women: recent CDC-based reporting shows Black women had an abortion rate of 24.4 per 1,000 in 2022...
As of late 2025, the least restrictive jurisdictions are those that have codified abortion protections and layered policies that "enhance access" — notably the District of Columbia and a group of stat...
Available reporting shows that the number of clinician‑provided abortions in the U.S. rose from 2020 to 2024 and that total abortions nationwide were estimated at 1.14 million in 2024 according to Soc...
Multiple recent analyses and advocacy pieces circulating since 2022 converge on an estimate that roughly a quarter to a third of pregnancies ended in abortion, with many outlets landing on about 28% (...
Available sources show U.S. abortion totals rose after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022: clinicians provided “more than a million” abortions in 2023 (Guttmacher reporting cited by...
Guttmacher’s newest full-year estimates show clinician‑provided abortions in U.S. states without total bans were essentially flat from 2023 to 2024 (about a 1% rise), and materially higher than pre‑Do...
Guttmacher’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study estimates about 1,038,100 clinician‑provided abortions in 2024 in U.S. states without total bans; roughly 155,000 people crossed state lines for care that...
Estimates vary widely depending on method: a recent JAMA-based count cited by PBS and others estimated more than 64,000 rape-related pregnancies in jurisdictions that enacted post‑Roe bans, a figure u...
President Trump’s 2025 policies and orders have quickly and broadly shifted federal practice on reproductive health, women’s health research, and workplace equity: his administration rescinded Biden-e...
Abortion law in the U.S. remains a patchwork: many states have reinstated near‑total bans or strict gestational limits while others have enacted constitutional or statutory protections—experts and tra...
As of the reporting in the supplied sources, at least 12–13 U.S. states have enforced near‑total or total abortion bans with very limited exceptions, and multiple trackers show a patchwork that change...
As of 2025, abortion law in the United States is a patchwork: some states protect broad access while others enforce near-total bans or strict gestational limits, and the landscape continued to shift d...
The most recent analyses show national abortion totals and rates for 2024 that are broadly stable compared with 2023 but differ across reporting efforts: Guttmacher’s full-year analyses report roughly...
The Trump administrations’ Title X policy shifts — most notably the 2019 “domestic gag rule” and the 2025–2025-era funding withholdings and proposed reinstatement of restrictive rules — reduced the nu...
The 2025 reconciliation law and related legislative moves cut or let lapse major ACA supports—KFF and CBO-linked analyses project up to millions of people losing coverage and sharply higher marketplac...
The United States' abortion rate in recent years sits above many Western European peers but below the highest rates seen in parts of Eastern Europe; the best available U.S. estimate is , with just ove...
Claims that “ was aborted” are widespread but not definitive: several advocacy and religious outlets cite estimates that roughly 26 million Gen Z conceptions ended in abortion—about 27–28% of the coho...