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Despite Bans, Number of Abortions in the United States Increased in ... Policy Analysis March 2024 Despite Bans, Number of Abortions in the United States Increased in 2023 Authors Isaac Maddow-Zimet , Guttmacher Institute Candace Gibson , Guttmacher Institute Reproductive rights are under attack. Will you help us fight back with facts? Donate Updated on May 10, 2024 New findings from the Monthly Abortion Provision Study show that an estimated 1,037,000 abortions occurred in the formal health care system in 2023, the first full calendar year after the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade . This represents a rate of 15.9 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age, * and is a 11% increase since 2020, the last year for which comprehensive estimates are available. It is also the highest number and rate measured in the United States in over a decade. This increase demonstrates that people continue to seek and obtain abortion care despite the drastic reduction in abortion access in many states. Since the Dobbs decision, in 2022, 14 states have banned abortion with limited exceptions . In addition, seven states—Arizona, Flor…

FILE – Stephen Parlato of Boulder, Colo., holds a sign that reads “Hands Off Roe!!!” as abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: July 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM PDT | UPDATED: July 6, 2026 at 1:53 PM PDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By GEOFF MULVIHILL Planned Parenthood and two smaller regional abortion providers are resuming billing Medicaid for services other than abortion after being cut off for most of a year. The defunding, which was mandated in President Donald Trump’s big tax and policy law last year, has been blamed in the closure of multiple clinics as well as a reduction in the number of Planned Parenthood patients being screened for breast cancer or tested for sexually transmitted infections. The Medicaid billing was allowed to resume Sunday. The restored funding does not mean the battle over federal abortion policy has ended, and not all services that were cut will return. Here’s what to know about the situation. Planned Parenthood closed clinics and saw fewer patients Many abortion providers, including…

Trump on Abortion | American Civil Liberties Union Threatening to Ban Abortion Nationwide and Take Away Our Reproductive Freedom A second Donald Trump presidency would present an existential threat to abortion access nationwide, imperiling the ability of anyone to get an abortion anywhere in the country under any circumstance. In 2016, Trump promised to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturnRoe v. Wade. Over the course of his presidency, he followed through on this catastrophic commitment, stacking the federal judiciary with staunch abortion opponents, including three Supreme Court justices who voted in 2022 to overturnRoeand with it the federal right to abortion in a case calledDobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That decision resulted in a devastating civil liberties and public health crisis. Fourteen states have banned abortion altogether, and others have rendered abortion care practically unavailable by criminalizing the provision of abortion care after the earliest weeks of pregnancy. Millions of people of reproductive age now live hundreds of miles from the closest abortion provider, forcing more than 171,000 people to travel outside of their home sta…

FILE – Stephen Parlato of Boulder, Colo., holds a sign that reads “Hands Off Roe!!!” as abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: July 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM PDT | UPDATED: July 6, 2026 at 1:53 PM PDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By GEOFF MULVIHILL Planned Parenthood and two smaller regional abortion providers are resuming billing Medicaid for services other than abortion after being cut off for most of a year. The defunding, which was mandated in President Donald Trump’s big tax and policy law last year, has been blamed in the closure of multiple clinics as well as a reduction in the number of Planned Parenthood patients being screened for breast cancer or tested for sexually transmitted infections. The Medicaid billing was allowed to resume Sunday. The restored funding does not mean the battle over federal abortion policy has ended, and not all services that were cut will return. Here’s what to know about the situation. Planned Parenthood closed clinics and saw fewer patients Many abortion providers, including…

Despite state bans and restrictions, the number of abortions in the U.S ... Despite state bans and restrictions, the number of abortions in the U.S. holds steady NPR | By Selena Simmons-Duffin Published March 24, 2026 at 12:01 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:48 Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images The 53rd annual March for Life rally was held in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23. There were about 1.1 million abortions in the U.S. both in 2024 and 2025, says a new report. Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, anti-abortion rights advocates have continuously pursued laws and court cases to make access to abortion more difficult. A report published Tuesday finds those efforts haven't worked in one basic way: The number of abortions in the country hasn't budged. "There were an estimated 1,126,000 abortions provided by clinicians in the U.S. in 2025 — that's pretty much unchanged from 2024," says Isaac Maddow-Zimet , data scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research organization that supports abortion access. A key way that abortions are now happening despite all of the state restrictions is through telemedicine. In 2023, the Food and D…

The Post-Roe Divide: How State Lines Now Determine Reproductive Freedom Last updated: Jun 07, 2026 9:11 PM GovFacts Published: July 6, 2025 SHARE Last updated 2 weeks ago. Our resources are updated regularly but please keep in mind that links, programs, policies, and contact information do change. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The decision eliminated the federal constitutional right to abortion that had existed for nearly 50 years and returned authority to regulate or ban the procedure to individual states. The transfer from federal to state control triggered an immediate split in abortion laws across the country. The result is a complex patchwork where a person’s ability to access abortion depends largely on where they live. The Dobbs Decision The case centered on a 2018 Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. This contradicted the viability standard from Roe and Casey, which prevented states from banning abortion before a fetus could survive outside the womb, around 24 weeks. The Court upheld Mississippi’s law in a 6–3 vote, but by 5–4, the majority went further and over…

Some states on track to restore abortion access, while others push ... Maggie Olivia, a senior policy manager with Abortion Action Missouri, embraces abortion-rights supporters in St. Louis after the race is called in favor of Amendment 3 on Nov. 5, 2024. Providers in the state are suing to strike down clinic restrictions. (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent) Heading into the third year since Roe v. Wade was overturned, states will continue to introduce and consider legislation to expand or restrict access to reproductive health care and abortion as legislative sessions begin. In anticipation of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January, states with broad reproductive rights protections have introduced bills to shield patients and doctors if the incoming Republican administration overturnsprotections implemented under President Joe Biden. States with strict bans, meanwhile, have started floating fetal personhood bans, abortion pill punishments and other restrictions. Most legislatures will conveneduring the second week in January or laterand adjourn midway through the year. On the campaign trail, Trumpinsistedhe would not sign a federal abortion ban and…

Fully in power, GOP targets Planned Parenthood - Roll Call The March for Life proceeds down Constitution Avenue after their rally on the National Mall in Washington on Jan. 24. ( Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call ) By Sandhya Raman Posted March 27, 2025 at 4:22pm, Updated March 31, 2025 at 12:52pm Facebook Twitter Email Reddit Lobbyists are pushing Capitol Hill and the White House to elevate pregnancy resource centers and to fulfill promises to slash funding for Planned Parenthood ahead of Supreme Court arguments this week that will examine whether states can choose to exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid reimbursements. Domestic health organizations that provide abortions can be eligible for federal family planning funding depending on how an administration chooses to regulate the Title X family planning program. Under Democratic presidents, abortion providers can still apply for this funding if it is used for nonabortion purposes. Since the Reagan administration, Republican presidencies have prohibited abortion providers from being eligible for this funding. Federal Medicaid dollars, similarly, cannot be used to cover most abortions under the Hyde amendment, a spending provision which…

Tracking the Attacks on Reproductive Freedom Under Trump 2.0 Back to Stay Informed Read our summary of the most consequential attacks on reproductive freedom in 2025—and how anti-abortion extremists escalated their agenda across the courts, Congress, and federal agencies. Read More Under a second Trump presidency, attacks on reproductive freedom have been quick, relentless, and discreet. Trump and his allies in Congress have taken expansive actions to roll back reproductive freedom, signaling their intention to ban abortion nationwide and roll back access to reproductive health care by any means necessary. If you’re wondering why you may have missed some of these actions, that’s by design. The anti-abortion agenda is unpopular, and the Trump administration knows it. That’s why they roll out many of these efforts with little fanfare. But we’re tracking and fighting back against this extremist anti-abortion agenda. Theabortion pill is under coordinated attackby anti-abortion extremists, despite overwhelming medical evidence of its safety. Medicaid cuts, defunding Planned Parenthood, attacks on Title X, and threats toACA insurance tax creditsare driving up costs and pushing h…