MARCH 19, 2024
Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR
More than a million abortions were provided in the U.S. in 2023. That's a major finding from a report published Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports access to abortion.
To be precise, researchers estimate there were 1,026,700 abortions in 2023. "That's the highest number in over a decade, [and] the first time there have been over a million abortions provided in the U.S. formal health care system since 2012," explains Isaac Maddow-Zimet, a data scientist with Guttmacher.
Continued: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/19/1238293143/abortion-data-how-many-us-2023