Eighteen percent of pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) in 2017 ended in abortion.1 Approximately 862,320 abortions were performed in 2017, down 7% from 926,190 in 2014. The abortion rate in 2017...

As of 2019, public support for legal abortion remains as high as it has been in two decades of polling.

In 2019, conservative state legislators raced to enact an unprecedented wave of bans on all, most or some abortions, and by the end of the year, 25 new abortion bans had been signed into law,

Between 2011 and 2017, the U.S. abortion landscape changed significantly. As documented by the Guttmacher Institute’s periodic abortion provider census, all the main measures of abortion declined,

Though abortion restrictions are incredibly harmful and coercive in the U.S., they aren't a primary driver in the national decline in pregnancy terminations.

This spring, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider its first major abortion rights case since the confirmations of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, and speculation about the future of

In June Medical Services v. Russo, a plurality of the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana admitting privileges requirement for abortion providers that would have devastated abortion access in

Updated on April 23, 2020: Added Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee to the Individual States section; added new section on the impact of simultaneous bans in multiple states. Updated on April 8, 2020:

Even with the pandemic wreaking havoc on the U.S. and global health care systems and economies, reproductive health care needs and decisions cannot be put on hold during the COVID-19 crisis.

As the COVID-19 pandemic tested the fragmented U.S. health care system in spring and summer 2020, sexual and reproductive health and rights were neglected or outright targeted by opponents of