In 2024, the US sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) landscape remained deeply fragmented. Many states enacted policies to expand access to sexual and reproductive health services, including state constitutional protections for abortion that passed by ballot initiative in seven states. But other states started or continued enforcing draconian abortion bans and other restrictions that limit people’s bodily autonomy and aim to instill fear around seeking abortion care. | Guttmacher Institute
Updated on June 16, 2023, to correct the number of shield laws passed in 2023.| Guttmacher Institute
Drawing on 2017 evidence for 24 high-income countries, Guttmacher researchers found that medication abortion (typically mifepristone and misoprostol together) accounted for at least half of all abortions in the majority of high-income countries. In Finland, Sweden and Norway, medication abortion accounted for about nine out of every 10 abortions. The study also found that the proportion of abortions using medication increased steadily over time in the 11 countries that had trend data. A 2021...| Guttmacher Institute
Originally published in Ms. Magazine. | Guttmacher Institute
Die "Alliance Defending Freedom" kämpft gegen Abtreibungen und LGBTQ-Rechte in den USA. Mit viel Geld treibt sie ihre Agenda auch in Europa voran.| correctiv.org
The landscape of abortion access in the United States continues to shift rapidly in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the federal constitutional right to abortion. Since then, many state legislatures have created new abortion restrictions and bans, and many have begun enforcing existing ones. Research has long indicated that abortion bans of all types have the greatest impact on peo...| Guttmacher Institute
The state may offer more access than many of its neighbors in the post-Roe era, but rural, Black, Latinx, and late-term patients seeking abortions in California still face challenges.| Vogue
States banning/restricting abortion have fewer maternity care providers, more maternity care “deserts,” and higher rates of maternal mortality and infant death.| www.commonwealthfund.org
New Guttmacher Institute research from the Monthly Abortion Provision Study shows that there were approximately 642,700 medication abortions in the United States in 2023, accounting for 63% of all abortions in the formal health care system. This is an increase from 2020, when medication abortions accounted for 53% of all abortions. | Guttmacher Institute
All people deserve access to quality health care—including abortion services—in or near their communities. However, fewer and fewer Americans are able to get abortion care in their own state. According to the latest data from the Guttmacher Institute’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study, the proportion of patients traveling to other states to obtain abortion care has doubled in recent years, reaching nearly one in five in the first half of 2023, compared with one in 10 in 2020.* This surg...| Guttmacher Institute
The US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, represents a dramatic shift in abortion provision and access in the United States.| Guttmacher Institute
In 2023, the first full year since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, state legislatures took key action on sexual and reproductive health. While many states increased access and piloted new policy solutions to expand and protect abortion and other sexual and reproductive health care, others sought to further curtail access.| Guttmacher Institute
Anti-abortion policymakers in the United States have continually crafted legal restrictions to ensure that abortion care is burdensome or impossible to obtain. This strategy has led to more than 1,300 abortion restrictions having been enacted since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, and is layered on top of failures of the health care and economic systems to provide Black, Indigenous and Latino* communities and communities living with low incomes access to high-quality, affordable health care, ...| Guttmacher Institute
The NAF Hotline Fund operates the largest national, toll-free, multi-lingual Hotline for abortion referrals and financial assistance in the U.S. and Canada. We provide callers with accurate information, confidential consultation, options counseling, and referrals to providers of quality abortion care.| National Abortion Federation
The Guttmacher Institute recently published new data on abortion in the United States. As we work to update our fact sheets with the latest data, please be aware that some of the information below is out of date. In the meantime, please refer to the following resources for the most current facts on abortion in the United States:| Guttmacher Institute