In 2022, there were around 613 thousand legal abortions in the United States. The number of legal abortions in the United States has decreased significantly since the early 1990’s. This number will probably continue to decrease in the coming years since many states have severely limited or completely banned abortion after the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court in 2022. The states with the highest abortion rates In 2022, the rate of legal abortions per live births in the United States was 19.9 per 100. In comparison, in 1990 there were 34.4 abortions per 100 live births. The states with the highest rates of abortion per live births are New Mexico, Illinois, and Florida. In Florida, there were around 37 abortions per 100 live births in 2022. Florida had the highest total number of abortions that year, followed by New York and Illinois. Missouri and South Dakota had the lowest number of abortions in 2022. Out-of-state abortions Critics of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade argue that while those who can afford it may be able to travel to other states for an abortion if their state bans the procedure, poorer residents will have no such choice. Even before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, out-of-state residents already accounted for a high share of abortions in certain states. In 2022, 69 percent of abortions in Kansas were performed on out-of-state residents, while out-of-state residents accounted for around 62 percent of abortions in New Mexico. Illinois had the highest total number of abortions performed on out-of-state residents that year, with around 16,849 procedures.

From 2020 to 2023, the state of Colorado saw an 88 percent increase in the number of abortions performed in the state. Since the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022, many states, such as Arkansas, Alabama, and Missouri, have completely banned abortion while others have seen decreases in the number of brick-and-mortar clinics that provide such services. However, many other states have seen increases in the number of abortions performed, even when the number of abortion clinics decreased.

In 2020, there were 499,420 abortions provided at abortion clinics and 28,010 abortions provided at hospitals in the United States. This statistic shows the number of abortions performed in the U.S. in 2014, 2017, and 2020, by facility type.

Abortion statistics measure the number of induced abortions that occur in New Zealand hospitals or licensed abortion clinics.

Abortion statistics measure the number of induced abortions that occur in New Zealand hospitals or licensed abortion clinics.

In 2020, there were a total of 232,240 medication abortions by abortion clinics in the United States. This statistic shows the number of medication abortions in the U.S. in 2020, by facility type.

The following tables summarize abortion-related services funded by Medi-Cal, by delivery system and demographic characteristics from calendar year (CY) 2014 to the most recent reportable CY. The number of abortion-related services are summarized by health care delivery system and county; health care delivery system and age group; health care delivery system and aid group; and age group and race/ethnicity. Expenditures are also summarized for abortion-related services claims submitted to the fee-for-service (FFS) delivery system. Federal funding is generally not available for abortion-related services; therefore, abortion-related services are financed with state funds only.

In 2020, before the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022, there were 173 clinics that provided abortions in California. The number of brick-and-mortar abortion clinics in California increased from 2020 to March 2024. As of March 2024, there were around 180 brick-and-mortar clinics that provided abortions in California. However, many states, such as Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi, completely banned abortion following the overturning of Roe v Wade and no longer have any clinics that provide the procedure.

Introduction: Various non-pharmacological interventions to prevent coronavirus dissemination were implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, including school closures. The effect of these interventions on particular aspects of people’s lives such as sexual and reproductive health outcomes has not been adequately discussed. The objective of the study was to compare the monthly hospital admission rates due to abortion before and during school closure. Methods: We used an interrupted time series (IES) design to estimate the hospital admission rates before and during the school closure (intervention in March 2020) period. The analysis was performed considering all girls from age groups of interest and by stratifying the age groups according to skin color (white and non-white) in which the non-white category comprised both the black and mixed ethnicity together. Coefficients and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) were calculated using segmented linear regression models. Results: The results showed positive and statistically significant coefficients, suggesting post-intervention trend changes both in the population as a whole (coefficient: 0.07; 95% CI: 0.02; 0.11) and the non-white population group (coefficient: 0.07; 95% CI: 0.03; 0.11), indicating that the monthly hospital admission rates increased over the post-intervention period compared to baseline pre-intervention period. The ITS analysis did not detect statistically significant trend changes (coefficient: 0.02; 95% CI: −0.01; 0.05) in abortion admission rates in the white girl population group. Conclusion: The hospitalizations in Brazil due to abortions in 10- to 14-year-old girls increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 compared to 2019, and the number of abortions was higher in the non-white population than the white population. Furthermore, recognizing that the implementation of school closure has affected the minority population differentially can help develop more effective actions to face other future similar situations.

The right to access safe abortion is a highly divisive global issue. Laws prohibit abortion by request in the majority of the world and countries such as the United States are implementing increasingly restrictive laws. It is therefore imperative that we better understand why these restrictions exist, how they affect those in need of healthcare, and how they have been contested. I examined these questions through the first study on abortion travel to focus on the Global South. While almost all unsafe abortions and deaths from unsafe abortions occur in the Global South, scholarship on abortion travel has overwhelmingly focused on the Global North (Sethna and Davis 2019). Through examining the barriers that prevent women from accessing safe abortions and the strategies they devise to resist these barriers, I explored how women's bodies and movement have been regulated by law and how this results in the mobility of women and abortion medication.

This research project had the following aims: 1) To explore how governmental regimes and non-legislative barriers prohibit safe, legal abortions in Latin America. 2) To understand how pregnant women and activists devise strategies, form networks, and resist these barriers to seek reproductive healthcare through travel and the transportation of abortion medication. 3) To highlight women's experiences of being forced to undertake travel in search of abortions and use their testimonies for change.

During this research I conducted interviews with activists and professionals with expertise on the topic of abortion in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. The results of this research have been published in a number of peer reviewed journal articles and I am currently writing a book on my findings. It has also resulted in a significant focus on engaged research projects and the non-academic outputs include a graphic novel about abortion in Mexico City, podcasts about abortion in Peru, and a global abortion database about abortion access.

The primary findings of the research are: - the argument that states in Latin America are 'states of uncare' in relation to abortion - that abortion care activists provide spaces of care where that is denied by the state - the development of 'strategic ignorance' in abortion scholarship to better understand how abortion clandestinity is maintained - the development of a 'chemical geography' of the abortion pill misoprostol - a conceptual development of a 'geography of abortion'

Before the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022, there were 63 clinics that provided abortions in states that had total bans on abortion as of March 2024. The number of brick-and-mortar abortion clinics in states without total bans on abortion actually increased from 2020 to March 2024. As of March 2024, there were around 765 brick-and-mortar clinics that provided abortions in states without total bans on the procedure.

Analysis of ‘🤰 Pregnancy, Birth & Abortion Rates (1973 - 2016)’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/yamqwe/pregnancy-birth-abortion-rates-in-the-united-stae on 13 February 2022.

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About this dataset

Source: OSF | Downloaded on 29 October 2020

This data source is a subset of the original data source. The data has been split by State, Metric and Age Range. It has been limited to pregnancy rate, birth rate and abortion rate per 1,000 women. The original data contains many more measures.

The data was prepared with Tableau Prep.

Summary via OSF -

A data set of comprehensive historical statistics on the incidence of pregnancy, birth and abortion for people of all reproductive ages in the United States. National statistics cover the period from 1973 to 2016, the most recent year for which comparable data are available; state-level statistics are for selected years from 1988 to 2016. For a report describing key highlights from these data, as well as a methodology appendix describing our methods of estimation and data sources used, see https://guttmacher.org/report/pregnancies-births-abortions-in-united-states-1973-2016.

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This dataset was created by Andy Kriebel and contains around 20000 samples along with Age Range, Events Per 1,000 Women, technical information and other features such as: - State - Year - and more.

How to use this dataset

• Analyze Metric in relation to Age Range
• Study the influence of Events Per 1,000 Women on State
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Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit Andy Kriebel

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Abstract Objective To evaluate the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the care of patients with miscarriage and legal termination of pregnancy in a university hospital in Brazil. Methods A cross-sectional study of women admitted for abortion due to any cause at Hospital da Mulher Prof. Dr. J. A. Pinotti of Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, between July 2017 and September 2021. Dependent variables were abortion-related complications and legal interruption of pregnancy. Independent variables were prepandemic period (until February 2020) and pandemic period (from March 2020). The Cochran-Armitage test, Chi-squared test, Mann-Whitney test, and multiple logistic regression were used for statistical analysis. Results Five-hundred sixty-one women were included, 376 during the prepandemic period and 185 in the pandemic period. Most patients during pandemic were single, without comorbidities, had unplanned pregnancy, and chose to initiate contraceptive method after hospital discharge. There was no significant tendency toward changes in the number of legal interruptions or complications. Complications were associated to failure of the contraceptive method (odds ratio [OR] 2.44; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.23–4.84), gestational age (OR 1.126; 95% CI 1.039–1.219), and preparation of the uterine cervix with misoprostol (OR 1.99; 95% CI 1.01–3.96). Conclusion There were no significant differences in duration of symptoms, transportation to the hospital, or tendency of reducing the number of legal abortions and increasing complications. The patients’ profile probably reflects the impact of the pandemic on family planning.

In 2020, there were around ******* abortions among women in the United States aged 20 to 24 years. This was a significant decrease from the number of abortions among this age group in the *****. This statistic depicts the number of abortions among U.S. females aged 20 to 24 years from 1973 to 2020.

Number of teen pregnancies and rates per 1,000 females, by pregnancy outcome (live births, induced abortions, or fetal loss), by age group (under 20 years, 20 to 24 years, 25 to 29 years, 30 to 34 years, 35 to 39 years, or 40 years and over), 1974 to 2005.

Between April 2019 and December 2020, we recruited women seeking abortions from 22 sites across Nepal, including those seeking an abortion at any gestational age (April-May 2019) and then only those seeking an abortion at or after 10 weeks of gestation (May 2019-December 2020). We conducted interviewer-led surveys with participants at six weeks after abortion-seeking and six-month intervals for three years. we examined the factors associated with presenting for abortion before versus after 10 weeks gestation as one measure of access to abortion services. We also describe the characteristics of women who received or were denied an abortion, their reasons for the denial, and whether they were able to obtain an abortion subsequent to being denied, among those who completed a 6-week or subsequent follow-up survey.

This dataset tracks the updates made on the dataset "Abortion-Related Services Funded by Medi-Cal, Calendar Years 2014-2020" as a repository for previous versions of the data and metadata.

The IPUMS Contextual Determinants of Health (CDOH) data series includes measures of disparities, policies, and counts, by state or county, for historically marginalized populations in the United States including Black, Asian, Hispanic/Latina/o/e/x, and LGBTQ+ persons, and women. The IPUMS CDOH data are made available through ICPSR/DSDR for merging with the National Couples' Health and Time Study (NCHAT), United States, 2020-2021 (ICPSR 38417) by approved restricted data researchers. All other researchers can access the IPUMS CDOH data via the IPUMS CDOH website. Unlike other IPUMS products, the CDOH data are organized into multiple categories related to Race and Ethnicity, Sexual and Gender Minority, Gender, and Politics. The CDOH measures were created from a wide variety of data sources (e.g., IPUMS NHGIS, the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Movement Advancement Project, and Myers Abortion Facility Database). Measures are currently available for states or counties from approximately 2015 to 2020. The Gender measures in this release include state-level abortion access, which reports the proportion of a state's females aged 15-44 who reside in counties with an abortion provider by year and month from 2009-2022. To work with the IPUMS CDOH data, researchers will need to first merge the NCHAT data to DS1 (MATCH ID and State FIPS Data). This merged file can then be linked to the IPUMS CDOH datafile (DS2) using the STATEFIPS variable.

From 2020 to March 2024, the state of New Mexico saw a 117 percent increase in the number of brick-and-mortar abortion clinics in the state. However, following the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022, many states saw decreases in the number of brick-and-mortar clinics that provided abortion services, with some, such as Arkansas, Alabama, and Missouri, banning the procedure altogether.