That's the highest number in more than a decade, according to new research. Medication abortion made up a larger share of the total than in 2020.
That's the highest number in more than a decade, according to new research. Medication abortion made up a larger share of the total than in 2020.To be precise, researchers estimate there were 1,026,700 abortions in 2023."That's the highest number in over a decade, the first time there have been over a million abortions provided in the U.S.
The fact that the number of abortions continues to rise may be counterintuitive given the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court overturnedin 2022. Access to abortion has been severely restricted in more than a dozen states since the last time Guttmacher published a comprehensive national count. In 2020, Guttmacher reported that there were 930,160 abortions in the U.S.The share of abortions that are performed with medication alone increased between 2020 and 2023.
"We don't know what the Supreme Court will decide, and we don't know exactly what the impact will be, except that it will create potentially more of that confusion and difficulty for people both providing care and needing to access care," Maddow-Zimet says.