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The question asks for a single tally: how many abortions have occurred in the United States since abortion became legal nationwide with Roe v. Wade in 1973. Estimates vary by source because reporting ...
Two leading research projects put 2024 U.S. abortion totals in different places: the Guttmacher Institute’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study reports about 1,038,100 clinician‑provided abortions in sta...
Project 2025 functioned as a blueprint and personnel pipeline that materially shaped many of the Trump administration’s early executive actions and regulatory priorities, with multiple trackers and ne...
Since Roe v. Wade reported U.S. abortions rose rapidly, peaking in the late 1980s–1990s (commonly cited peak ~1.6 million in 1990 and a peak rate of 29.3 per 1,000 women in 1980–81), then fell steadil...
Multiple, reputable research projects produced different 2024 totals because they measure slightly different things: Guttmacher’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study estimates roughly 1.04 million clinic...
Abortion incidence in the United States fell for decades after the 1980–81 peak but rose again in 2023–24, with multiple data projects estimating between about 1.04 million clinician‑provided abortion...
Virginia’s reported clinician‑provided abortions rose from about 33,390 in 2023 to roughly 38,920–39,000 in 2024, a jump of about 5,490 procedures or roughly 16% driven largely by out‑of‑state patient...
A bipartisan cascade of state actions since Dobbs has left a patchwork: as of November 2025, a set of states protect abortion through explicit constitutional amendments, state statutes, or state-court...
Official 2024 state abortion reports and datasets are spread across federal surveillance, independent research institutes, multi-provider surveillance projects, and state health departments, each with...
Two primary, regularly cited trackers of U.S. annual abortion counts are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Abortion Surveillance and the Guttmacher Institute’s full-year and Monthly Abo...
Thirteen states had enacted near‑total abortion bans by mid‑2025, and those bans commonly included narrow exceptions — most often to save the pregnant person’s life or, less frequently, for rape, ince...
Federal surveillance systems and academic datasets together provide the primary public record on abortions in the United States, but virtually none of the routinely published, nationwide data sources ...
Public, auditable state‑by‑state cumulative abortion counts since 1973 that incorporate a uniform, accepted adjustment for underreporting do not exist in the public record; researchers instead rely on...
A systematic read of the provided reporting shows that few state health agencies are explicitly documented in these sources as publishing downloadable, person- or case-level 2024 abortion microdata; T...
Several reporting and policy analyses link specific Trump-administration actions to harms for public health and life expectancy: experts point to rollbacks or funding cuts that reduced vaccination tru...
Two federal actors publish or have published national abortion statistics: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), via its long‑running Abortion Surveillance System, and non‑government r...
State-by-state changes in abortion procedures since Dobbs have been highly uneven: Guttmacher and other researchers report sharp declines in some states with new six-week or total bans (Florida, South...
Project Esther is a Heritage-linked effort focused on policing campus protests and targeting pro‑Palestinian activism; available sources do not describe Project Esther as a reproductive‑health policy ...
Guttmacher Institute’s full-year estimates place clinician‑provided abortions in states without total bans at roughly in 2024, with overall U.S. totals estimated above when including states with bans ...