Has decreased over the last few decades In 2022, there were around 613,000 abortions. The number of chemical or “medication” abortions using drugs such as mifepristone and/or misoprostol continued to rise, from 56% of recorded abortions in 2021 to 57.7 % in 2022, a relatively large increase in just a year’s time. The number of abortions performed in the u.s Fell slightly in 2022, the year the supreme court overruled roe v Wade, a new federal report found
In 2022, a total of 613,383 legal abortions were reported by 48 areas. Since our initial landscape report in october 2022, several states added new bans, which were followed by a major decrease in the number of abortions (table 2). From 2013 to 2022, there was a 5 percent decrease in the total number of reported abortions, a decrease of 10 percent in the abortion rate, and an increase of 1 percent in the abortion. As of july 2022, the guttmacher institute had reported abortion data for the years 1973 through 2020 and the cdc had reported abortion data for the years 1970 through 2019 Abortion statistics are commonly presented as the number of abortions, the abortion rate (the number of abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44), and the abortion ratio. The number of legal abortions performed in 2022 marked a decrease compared to previous years, according to the most recent data produced by the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc).
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