Report: 2023 Saw Highest Number of Abortions in ‘More Than a Decade’Katherine Hamilton 21 Mar 2024
Last year saw “the highest number and rate of abortions measured in the United States in more than a decade,” according to a report from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.
In 2023 — the first full calendar year following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade — there were an estimated 1,026,690 unborn babies killed in abortions in the formal U.S. health care system and a rate of 15.7 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age, the institute’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study found. That number is a ten percent increase in abortions from 2020.
The study found that every state that had not outlawed abortion saw an increase over 2020 totals in the number of abortions performed.
“The 10 percent increase at the national level in many ways understates the degree to which health systems, providers and support networks have had to scale up care in certain states: States without total bans experienced a 25 percent increase in abortions in 2023 compared with 2020,” according to the press release. “The sharpest increases were seen in states bordering ban states, where abortions increased by 37 percent from 2020 to 2023.”
The report noted that the annual estimates are “certainly an undercount, as they include only those abortions obtained within the formal U.S. health care system: at brick-and-mortar health facilities, such as clinics or doctor’s offices, and via telehealth and virtual providers” and not underground national and international networks, including those that send pills to women in red states.
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