- Janice Hopkins Tanne
- New York
There were more than a million abortions in 2023 in the formal US healthcare system, of which 63% were medication abortions—both record highs.
The figures from the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organisation committed to advancing sexual and reproductive rights worldwide, are from the first full year after the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.12
In 2023 there were an estimated 1 025 690 abortions in the formal healthcare system or 15.7 abortions per 1000 women of reproductive age, the institute reported. Some 63% of them were medication abortions, up from 53% in 2020.
The authors of the …