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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The overturning of Roe v. Wade produced a sharply divergent, state-by-state landscape in 2024: nationally, clinician‑reported abortions rose to about 1.14 million, but that aggregate masks steep decli...
The largest reported declines in clinician‑provided abortions between 2022 and 2025 occurred in states that enacted stringent short‑limit bans—most prominently Florida and South Carolina—while the lar...
Since Roe v. Wade in 1973 the total annual number of U.S. abortions rose into the 1980s–1990s and then trended downward before recent upticks: peak annual counts were roughly 1.4–1.6 million around 19...
After the June 2022 Dobbs decision, federal abortion reporting fragmented: CDC’s Abortion Surveillance remains stalled at 2022 data and relies on voluntary state reports, while new rapid-response effo...
Available reporting does not list a single ranked “leading causes” for why people seek abortion in the U.S. in 2024; instead, recent data and analyses emphasize that medication abortion (pills), teleh...
Available reporting shows U.S. abortion counts and rates rose modestly in 2024 compared with 2023, but that national stability masks large state-by-state shifts and demographic disparities. Major data...