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Abortion

  • Monthly counts since 2023
  • Every state back to 1988
  • National totals back to 1973
  • Each state's current gestational limit

Abortions per year since 1973

Three sources · the line marks the Dobbs decision

  • Guttmacher, 1973–2020
  • Guttmacher monthly study
  • Reported to CDC (excludes CA, MD, NH)
0500K1M1.5M2M1973198119891997200520132021Dobbs decision (June 2022)930,1601,128,200613,383

Source: Guttmacher, Pregnancies, Births and Abortions 1973–2020

At a glance

Abortions per year

1.1M

Provided by U.S. clinicians, including telehealth

2025

▲ +0.4% vs 2024

Latest month

94.5K

May 2026

Monthly estimate

▲ +0.1% vs May 2025

By telehealth (virtual-only)

277.7K · 25%

Pills mailed after an online consultation

2025

Traveled to another state

141K · 12%

Patients treated outside their home state

2025

Key findings

  • Clinicians provided an estimated 1.1M abortions in 2025, about the same as 2024.
  • That is 198K more than in 2020 (930.2K), before the Supreme Court's June 2022 Dobbs decision returned abortion law to the states.
  • The abortion rate peaked in 1980 at 29.3 per 1,000 women aged 15–44; in 2020 it was 14.4.
  • 25% of abortions in 2025 were provided by virtual-only telehealth providers, which mail pills after an online consultation.
  • 91.1K abortions in 2025 were medication abortions mailed by telehealth providers into the 13 states with total bans.
  • 141K patients (12%) traveled to another state for an abortion in 2025.
  • Texas had the most residents leave the state for an abortion in 2025: at least 22K.
  • Medication abortion rose from 44% of abortions reported to CDC in 2019 to 58% in 2022.

Two ways to count

Guttmacher surveys and models every provider, so its totals are complete. CDC compiles what state health agencies report; California, Maryland, and New Hampshire don't report, so CDC's totals are lower.

Where an abortion is counted

Since 2023 counts are by state of occurrence: where the procedure happened or where pills were received. The 1973–2020 series counts by the patient's state of residence.

What isn't counted

Abortions under exceptions to total bans, and pills obtained outside the U.S. health system (for example from overseas pharmacies or community networks), are not in Guttmacher's estimates.

Month by month since 2023

How many abortions are provided each month, and how does that split between states with and without total bans?

Abortions per month

United States · estimate

050K100K150K202320242025202694,470

Source: Guttmacher Monthly Abortion Provision Study

By state law

Per month · states with total bans receive abortions mainly by telehealth

  • States without total bans
  • States with total bans
025K50K75K100K202320242025202685,4309,010

Source: Guttmacher Monthly Abortion Provision Study

Since 1973

How does today compare with the decades since Roe v. Wade?

Guttmacher's 1973–2020 series and its monthly study since 2023 both cover every state; there is no Guttmacher estimate for 2021–2022. CDC's count is lower because several states don't report to it.

Abortion rate

Per 1,000 women aged 15–44

  • Guttmacher (all states)
  • CDC (continuously reporting areas)
0102030197319811989199720052013202114.411.2

Source: Guttmacher, Pregnancies, Births and Abortions 1973–2020

State gestational limits

After how many weeks of pregnancy does each state ban abortion?

Since the Supreme Court's June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, each state sets its own limit. Limits below are as in effect in October 2026. Most laws include exceptions, such as to save the patient's life, which vary by state.

TXCAKYGAWIORMOVATNLANYIDFLILMTMNIAOHNEWASDARMSCONCUTOKWYWVINNVNDPASCMEMIAKNMALKSAZ

Hover or tap a state for its law.

13

Total ban

  • AL
  • AR
  • ID
  • IN
  • KY
  • LA
  • MS
  • ND
  • OK
  • SD
  • TN
  • TX
  • WV

6

Banned at 6–12 weeks

  • FL
  • GA
  • IA
  • NE
  • NC
  • SC

4

Banned at 15–22 weeks

  • KS
  • OH
  • UT
  • WI

18

Banned at 24 weeks, viability, or third trimester

  • AZ
  • CA
  • CT
  • DE
  • HI
  • IL
  • ME
  • MA
  • MO
  • MT
  • NV
  • NH
  • NY
  • PA
  • RI
  • VA
  • WA
  • WY

10

No gestational limit

  • AK
  • CO
  • DC
  • MD
  • MI
  • MN
  • NJ
  • NM
  • OR
  • VT

Hover a state for the law's wording. Source: Guttmacher state policy summaries

Travel between states

How many people cross state lines for an abortion, and where do they go?

Residents who went to another state

2025 · top 10 states

  1. Texas22K
  2. Missouri11.6K
  3. Indiana10.1K
  4. Florida9,590
  5. Georgia9,530
  6. South Carolina8,640
  7. Tennessee7,370
  8. Alabama3,770
  9. Pennsylvania3,750
  10. Kentucky3,620

Source: Guttmacher Monthly Abortion Provision Study

Largest flows

2025 · home state → state where provided

  1. Texas → New Mexico9,440
  2. Indiana → Illinois8,490
  3. Missouri → Illinois7,690
  4. South Carolina → North Carolina7,140
  5. Georgia → North Carolina5,800
  6. Tennessee → Illinois5,260
  7. Texas → Kansas5,120
  8. Missouri → Kansas3,940
  9. Texas → Colorado3,370
  10. Oklahoma → Kansas2,930

Source: Guttmacher Monthly Abortion Provision Study

Travel to and from one state

2025 · flows under 100 are not published

Abortions provided in the state
42,040
Abortions obtained by its residents
64,080
Residents who went to another state
22,040

Where residents who left went

  1. New Mexico9,440
  2. Kansas5,120
  3. Colorado3,370
  4. California1,460
  5. Illinois810
  6. New York460
  7. Nevada320
  8. Maryland270

Where patients from other states came from

No published flows.

Source: Guttmacher Monthly Abortion Provision Study

Telehealth and method

How much abortion now happens by mail, and how common is medication abortion?

Medication abortion uses two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, which the FDA has approved through 10 weeks of pregnancy. Virtual-only providers prescribe them after an online consultation and mail them; in states with total bans, they do so under shield laws in the provider's own state.

Abortions by virtual-only providers

Per year · by state law where the pills were received

  • States without total bans
  • States with total bans
0100K200K300K202320242025

Source: Guttmacher Monthly Abortion Provision Study

Medication abortions

Share of abortions reported to CDC with a known method

02040602019202020212022

Source: CDC Abortion Surveillance

Patients

Who obtains abortions, and how far along in pregnancy?

From CDC's 2022 report, the latest published, among the reporting areas that record each characteristic. 92.5% of abortions took place at 13 weeks of pregnancy or earlier; 7.5% after 13 weeks.

By age

2022 · share of abortions

  1. Under 150.2%
  2. 15–198.5%
  3. 20–2428.5%
  4. 25–2928.2%
  5. 30–3420.4%
  6. 35–3910.6%
  7. 40 and over3.6%

Source: CDC Abortion Surveillance

Abortion rate by race and ethnicity

2022 · per 1,000 women aged 15–44

  1. Black (non-Hispanic)24.4
  2. Hispanic11.6
  3. Other races (non-Hispanic)9.4
  4. White (non-Hispanic)5.7

Source: CDC Abortion Surveillance

Weeks of pregnancy

Share of abortions, 13 weeks or earlier

  • 6 weeks or earlier
  • 7–9 weeks
  • 10–13 weeks
02040602013201520172019202141.6%37.3%13.6%

Source: CDC Abortion Surveillance

Across the states

How do the states compare? Pick a measure to map it; sort the table by any column.

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Abortions provided

2025 · Guttmacher Monthly Abortion Provision Study

Abortions provided in the state, including medication abortion mailed into it by telehealth providers.

  • 390 – 2,580
  • 2,580 – 3,660
  • 3,660 – 6,080
  • 6,080 – 13.4K
  • 13.4K – 22.3K
  • 22.3K – 38.7K
  • 38.7K – 184.6K

Shades split states into sevenths by rank.

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20252024–20252025202520252025as of Oct 202620222020
California184,6200.7%180,5502.0%015,21024—19.0
New York112,690-3.5%107,6506.0%1,2909,5702418.727.6
Illinois86,810-7.2%54,51037.0%010,1202422.817.1
Florida66,680-12.5%74,0503.0%9,59019,730620.518.8
New Jersey61,3004.4%58,7207.0%1,8906,360——28.9
North Carolina48,0101.7%32,67037.0%2,3807,8901219.013.0
Texas42,04021.8%64,080—22,04042,04002.810.1
Virginia40,090-0.0%34,27021.0%2,7309,680279.713.8
Maryland38,740-4.3%36,37013.0%2,7505,860——24.9
Michigan38,4501.2%36,6805.0%1909,130—15.916.1
Pennsylvania38,290-1.5%39,0008.0%3,7508,0202414.214.7
Georgia37,9506.1%42,43013.0%9,53014,300617.216.6
Ohio33,12010.7%31,34012.0%2,18012,240208.39.9
Washington23,6700.2%23,3605.0%8903,5602412.911.6
Colorado22,820-7.8%17,85022.0%06,360—11.79.9
Massachusetts22,3401.2%22,0704.0%6403,6002412.612.5
Kansas20,610-8.6%7,08066.0%1002,1502221.67.3
Arizona17,7704.4%18,7802.0%1,2904,960248.19.7
Nevada16,190-6.3%15,8105.0%5206,5602419.217.7
New Mexico16,160-11.0%6,30063.0%2701,760—28.89.9
Minnesota15,970-4.8%12,87019.0%03,480—11.19.5
Connecticut14,6300.3%14,4205.0%5101,7702416.017.1
Oregon13,4201.2%11,63015.0%2301,760—10.49.7
Louisiana9,47027.8%11,040—1,5709,47005.08.4
Wisconsin8,28024.1%11,4802.0%3,3702,450203.07.6
District of Columbia8,270-1.9%5,47048.0%1,180740—22.426.1
South Carolina8,17017.7%16,5004.0%8,6405,54067.211.9
Tennessee7,62030.9%14,990—7,3707,62004.67.8
Alabama7,42036.1%11,190—3,7707,42003.89.5
Mississippi6,08024.6%7,770—1,6906,08003.99.9
Utah5,6307.0%5,4006.0%1401,230185.14.5
Indiana4,49036.9%14,600—10,1104,49007.18.2
Delaware4,2006.3%4,4908.0%6401,4802413.015.8
Nebraska3,90016.8%3,55017.0%3101,150126.75.4
Oklahoma3,89031.0%6,920—3,0303,89002.710.7
Rhode Island3,7103.3%3,71013.0%480800246.414.0
Arkansas3,66022.0%5,680—2,0203,66002.87.8
Hawaii3,640-5.2%3,3308.0%0620247.512.1
Missouri3,55053.7%15,140—11,6303,250240.19.9
Kentucky3,44024.2%7,060—3,6203,44003.06.7
Iowa2,820-25.8%5,130—2,3201,87066.75.9
Maine2,780-1.8%2,5508.0%0550249.110.1
New Hampshire2,600-5.1%2,67014.0%45072024—8.7
Montana2,5802.8%2,3808.0%0280248.17.6
Alaska1,7306.1%1,690—0430—8.69.2
Vermont1,5102.7%1,24018.0%0230—9.29.5
Idaho85018.1%2,430—1,58085002.76.0
West Virginia78011.4%2,370—1,59078002.75.7
Wyoming740-12.9%89014.0%260350244.96.4
South Dakota44029.4%770—33044000.84.1
North Dakota39039.3%1,300—91039004.96.4

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