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  • Roe v. Wade Overturned
  • COVID-19 impact
  • Reproductive Health Impact Study
  • Adding It Up
  • Abortion Worldwide
  • Guttmacher-Lancet Commission
  • U.S. policy resources
  • State policy resources
  • State legislation tracker

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  • Teens

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Abortion

The Guttmacher Institute is a primary source for research and policy analysis on abortion in the United States. In many cases, Guttmacher’s data are more comprehensive than state and federal government sources. The Institute’s work examines the incidence of abortion, access to care and barriers to obtaining services, factors underlying women’s decisions to terminate a pregnancy, characteristics of women who have abortions and the conditions under which women obtain them. Guttmacher also tracks abortion-related legislation and policies at the federal and state level, promoting access to abortion services and making an evidence-based case against restrictions that limit access.

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    Roe v. Wade Overturned: Our Latest Resources

  • Fact Sheet

    Induced Abortion in the United States

  • Policy Analysis

    Medication Abortion Now Accounts for More Than Half of All US Abortions

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 862K

    abortions performed in the United States in 2017
  • 59%

    of women obtaining abortions are mothers
  • 58%

    of women 13–44 live in a state hostile or extremely hostile to abortion rights

Resources

  • January 2016 Policy Analysis

    Learning from Experience: Where Religious Liberty Meets Reproductive Rights

    Adam Sonfield,Guttmacher Policy Review

    United States

    • Abortion
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  • January 2016 Infographic

    States enacted nearly as many new abortion restrictions in the last five years as in the previous 15 years

    United States

    • Abortion
  • January 2016 Infographic

    States have taken many routes to restricting access to abortion over the last five years

    United States

    • Abortion
  • January 2016 Infographic

    The 10 states that adopted 10 or more new abortion restrictions between 2011 and 2015 together account for 60% of all 288 new restrictions

    United States

    • Abortion
  • January 2016 News in Context

    2015 Year-End State Policy Roundup

    Elizabeth Nash, Rachel Benson Gold, Zohra Ansari-Thomas and Gwendolyn Rathbun

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
  • January 2016 Blog / Letter / Op-ed

    Attacks on Abortion Rights Continued in 2015, Ensnaring Family Planning Funding and Fetal Tissue Research

    Rachel Benson Gold and Elizabeth Nash,Rewire

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
  • September 2015 News Release

    As U.S. Abortion Restrictions Mount, Issue of Self-Induced Abortion Gains Attention

    United States

    • Abortion
  • September 2015 Policy Analysis

    Prosecuting Women for Self-Inducing Abortion: Counterproductive and Lacking Compassion

    Andrea Rowan,Guttmacher Policy Review

    United States

    • Abortion
  • September 2015 Infographic

    Fewer U.S. Women of Reproductive Age Were Uninsured in 2014

    United States

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  • September 2015 News in Context

    Proposed Ban on Abortion After 20 Weeks Is Misguided and Harms Women’s Health

    United States

    • Abortion

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Social conservatives in the U.S. Congress are not just antiabortion but increasingly anti–family planning. The harmful policies these lawmakers are pursuing are based on falsehoods, and are severely undermining the health, rights and autonomy of women around the world.

Heather D. Boonstra

Vice President for Public Policy

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