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Medical and public-health authorities say some abortions are performed to protect a woman’s life or health; professional groups like ACOG argue that abortion care should be treated as medically indica...
Planned Parenthood’s most recent public reporting (its 2023–2024 annual report covering services delivered in 2022–2023) lists 402,230 abortions for the year ending June 30, 2024 — a record high repor...
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...
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...
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...
State abortion bans and restrictions since Dobbs have reshaped where abortions occur: several states saw sharp local declines in facility procedures (e.g., Texas down ~66% and Oklahoma ~70% in 2022) w...
Medication abortion became the dominant method of abortion in the U.S. after 2020 and drove much of the national increase in reported abortions after 2022: early medication abortions were 53.3% of all...