Search results
Mar 6, 2024 · These are the primary areas the U.S. government says not to travel to right now, in alphabetical order: Jump to Place: Afghanistan: The Central Asian country is wrestling with “terrorism,...
America’s women lost that bet—big time—when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down abortion laws in all 50 states in Roe v. Wade. Unsafe is the comprehensive, documented record of the tragic consequences of that decision.
Feb 1, 2021 · We’re proud at Americans United for Life to share “Unsafe: America’s Abortion Industry Endangers Women,” a 50-State investigative report on the dirty and dangerous abortion industry.
Americans United for Life
- 2MB
- 197
- Overview
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Limitations
- Public Health Implications
- References
Altmetric:
Citations:
Views:
Views equals page views plus PDF downloads
On This Page
•Introduction
Problem/Condition: CDC conducts abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions and number of abortion-related deaths in the United States.
Period Covered: 2021.
Description of System: Each year, CDC requests abortion data from the central health agencies for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City. For 2021, a total of 48 reporting areas voluntarily provided aggregate abortion data to CDC. Of these, 47 reporting areas provided data each year during 2012–2021. Census and natality data were used to calculate abortion rates (number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years) and ratios (number of abortions per 1,000 live births), respectively. Abortion-related deaths from 2020 were assessed as part of CDC’s Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System (PMSS).
Results: A total of 625,978 abortions for 2021 were reported to CDC from 48 reporting areas. Among 47 reporting areas with data each year during 2012–2021, in 2021, a total of 622,108 abortions were reported, the abortion rate was 11.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years, and the abortion ratio was 204 abortions per 1,000 live births. From 2020 to 2021, the total number of abortions increased 5% (from 592,939 total abortions), the abortion rate increased 5% (from 11.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years), and the abortion ratio increased 4% (from 197 abortions per 1,000 live births). From 2012 to 2021, the total number of reported abortions decreased 8% (from 673,634), the abortion rate decreased 11% (from 13.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years), and the abortion ratio decreased 1% (from 207 abortions per 1,000 live births).
In 2021, women in their 20s accounted for more than half of abortions (57.0%). Women aged 20–24 and 25–29 years accounted for the highest percentages of abortions (28.3% and 28.7%, respectively) and had the highest abortion rates (19.7 and 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 20–24 and 25–29 years, respectively). By contrast, adolescents aged <15 years and women aged ≥40 years accounted for the lowest percentages of abortions (0.2% and 3.6%, respectively) and had the lowest abortion rates (0.4 and 2.5 abortions per 1,000 women aged <15 and ≥40 years, respectively). However, abortion ratios were highest among adolescents (aged ≤19 years) and lowest among women aged 30–39 years.
From 2020 to 2021, abortion rates increased among women aged 20–39 years, decreased among adolescents aged 15–19 years, and did not change among adolescents aged <15 years and women aged ≥40 years. Abortion rates decreased from 2012 to 2021 among all age groups, except women aged 30–34 years for whom it increased. The decrease in the abortion rate from 2012 to 2021 was highest among adolescents compared with any other age group. From 2020 to 2021, abortion ratios increased for women aged 15–24 years, decreased among adolescents aged <15 years and women aged ≥35 years and did not change for women aged 25–34 years. From 2012 to 2021, abortion ratios increased among women aged 15–29 years and decreased among adolescents aged <15 years and women aged ≥30 years. The decrease in abortion ratio from 2012 to 2021 was highest among women aged ≥40 years compared with any other age group. In 2021, the majority (80.8%) of abortions were performed at ≤9 weeks’ gestation, and nearly all (93.5%) were performed at ≤13 weeks’ gestation. During 2012–2021, the percentage of abortions performed at >13 weeks’ gestation remained ≤8.7%. In 2021, the highest percentage of abortions were performed by early medication abortion at ≤9 weeks’ gestation (53.0%), followed by surgical abortion at ≤13 weeks’ gestation (37.6%), surgical abortion at >13 weeks’ gestation (6.4%), and medication abortion at >9 weeks’ gestation (3.0%); all other methods were uncommon (<0.1%). Among those that were eligible (≤9 weeks’ gestation), 66.6% of abortions were early medication abortions. In 2020, the most recent year for which PMSS data were reviewed for pregnancy-related deaths; six women died as a result of complications from legal induced abortion.
This report summarizes data on legal induced abortions for 2021 that were provided voluntarily to CDC by the central health agencies of 48 reporting areas (46 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City, excluding California, Maryland, New Hampshire, and New Jersey) and comparisons over time for the 47 reporting areas that reported each yea...
Description of the Surveillance System
Each year, CDC requests aggregate data from the central health agencies of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions in the United States. Not all persons who obtain abortions identify as women; the term “women” has been maintained in this report to be consistent with the collection and reporting of denominator data used to calculate abortion rates and ratios. This report contains data voluntarily reported to CDC as of June 15, 2023. For the purpose of surveillance, legal induced abortion is defined as an intervention performed within the limits of state and jurisdiction law by a licensed clinician (e.g., a physician, nurse-midwife, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant) intended to terminate a suspected or known intrauterine pregnancy and that does not result in a live birth. This definition excludes management of intrauterine fetal death, early pregnancy failure or loss, ectopic pregnancy, or retained products of conception. All abortions in this report are considered to be legally induced unless stated otherwise. In most states and jurisdictions, the collection of abortion data is facilitated by a legal requirement for hospitals, facilities, or physicians to report abortions to a central health agency (15); however, reporting is not complete in all areas, including in certain areas with reporting requirements (16). The reporting of abortion data to CDC is voluntary and many reporting areas have developed their own data collection forms and might not collect or provide all the information requested by CDC. As a result, the level of detail reported by CDC might vary from year to year and by reporting area. To encourage uniform collection of data, the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) with technical assistance from CDC developed technical guidance for vital statistics personnel who collect and summarize abortion data within the United States (17).
Variables and Categorization of Data
Each year, CDC sends a suggested template to central health agencies in the United States for compilation of aggregate abortion data among women obtaining legal induced abortions. Aggregate abortion numbers, without individual-level records, are requested for the following variables: •Age group in years of women obtaining legal induced abortions (<15, 15–19 [age group and by individual year], 20–24, 25–29, 30–34, 35–39, or ≥40) •Gestational age of pregnancy in completed weeks at the time of abortion (≤6, 7–20 by individual week, or ≥21) •Race (Black, White, or other [including Alaska Native, American Indian, Asian [Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, or other Asian], Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander [Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, Samoan, or other Pacific Islander], other races, and multiple races]), ethnicity (Hispanic or non-Hispanic), and race by ethnicity •Method type (surgical abortion, intrauterine instillation, medication [nonsurgical] abortion, or hysterectomy or hysterotomy) •Marital status (married [including currently married or separated] or unmarried [including never married, widowed, or divorced]) •Number of previous live births (zero, one, two, three, or four or more) •Number of previous induced abortions (zero, one, two, or three or more) •Residence (the state, jurisdiction, territory, or foreign country in which the women obtaining the abortion lived, or, if additional details are unavailable, in-reporting area versus out-of-reporting area) In addition, the template provided by CDC requests that aggregate abortion numbers for certain variables be cross-tabulated by a second variable. The cross-tabulations presented in this report include weeks of gestation separately by method type, by age group, and by race and ethnicity. Beginning with 2014 data, instead of reporting the clinicians’ estimate of gestational age or estimates of gestational age based on last menstrual period, certain areas have reported “probable postfertilization age,” “clinician’s estimate of gestation based on date of conception,” and “probable gestational age” to CDC. To facilitate consistency between data reported as postfertilization age and the data collection practices for gestational age recommended by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (18), 2 weeks were added to probable postfertilization age. This method was used to account for time after last menstrual period until ovulation in a standard 28-day cycle because fertilization occurs around the time of ovulation (19). No modifications were made to data reported as clinician’s estimate of gestational age based on date of conception or data reported as probable gestational age. In this report, medication and surgical abortions are further categorized by gestational age when available in the categories reported to CDC. Early medication abortion is defined as the administration of medications (typically mifepristone followed by misoprostol) to induce an abortion at ≤9 completed weeks’ gestation, consistent with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeling for mifepristone that was implemented in 2016 (20). CDC collects information only on the estimated number of weeks (not days) of gestation and acknowledges the conventional use of completed weeks of gestation to describe pregnancy duration; therefore, CDC’s category of ≤9 weeks’ gestation includes abortions through 9 weeks and 6 days. Medications (typically serial prostaglandins, sometimes administered after mifepristone) also might be used to induce an abortion at >9 weeks’ gestation. Surgical abortions, which include uterine aspiration (i.e., dilation and curettage, aspiration curettage, suction curettage, manual vacuum aspiration, menstrual extraction, or sharp curettage) and dilation and evacuation procedures, are categorized as having been performed at ≤13 weeks’ gestation or at >13 weeks’ gestation because of differences in surgical technique at these gestational ages (21). Finally, because intrauterine instillations are unlikely to be performed early in gestation (22), abortions reported to have been performed by intrauterine instillation at ≤12 weeks’ gestation are excluded from calculation of the percentage of abortions by known method type and are grouped with unknown type.
Measures of Abortion
Four measures of abortion are presented in this report: 1) the number of abortions in a specific population, 2) the percentage of abortions by selected characteristics, 3) the abortion rate (number of abortions per 1,000 women within a specific population), and 4) the abortion ratio (number of abortions per 1,000 live births within a specific population). Abortion rates adjust for differences in population size. Abortion ratios measure the relative number of pregnancies in a specific population that end in abortion compared with live birth. U.S. Census Bureau estimates of the resident female population were used as the denominator for calculating abortion rates (23–32). Overall abortion rates were calculated from the population of women aged 15–44 years living in the reporting areas that provided continuously reported data. For adolescents aged <15 years, abortion rates were calculated using the number of adolescents aged 13–14 years as the denominator; for women aged ≥40 years, abortion rates were calculated using the number of women aged 40–44 years as the denominator. For the calculation of abortion ratios, live birth data were obtained from CDC natality files and included births to women of all ages living in the reporting areas that provided abortion data (33,34). For calculation of the total abortion rates and total ratios only, women with unknown data on selected characteristics (e.g., age, race and ethnicity, and marital status) were distributed according to the distribution of abortions among those with known information on the characteristic. For calculation of totals only, abortions for women with an unknown gestational age of pregnancy but known method type were distributed according to the distribution of abortions among those with known information on method type by gestational age to the following categories: surgical, ≤13 weeks’ gestation; surgical, >13 weeks’ gestation; medication, ≤9 weeks’ gestation; and medication, >9 weeks’ gestation.
Total Abortions Reported to CDC by Occurrence
Among the 48 reporting areas that provided data for 2021, a total of 625,978 abortions were reported. Of these abortions, 622,108 were from 47 reporting areas that provided data every year during 2012–2021. In 2021, these continuously reporting areas had an abortion rate of 11.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years and an abortion ratio of 204 abortions per 1,000 live births (Table 1). From 2020 to 2021, the total number of reported abortions increased 5% (from 592,939 total abortions), the abortion rate increased 5% (from 11.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years), and the abortion ratio increased 4% (from 197 abortions per 1,000 live births). From 2012 to 2021, the total number of reported abortions decreased 8% (from 673,634), the abortion rate decreased 11% (from 13.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years), and the abortion ratio decreased 1% (from 207 abortions per 1,000 live births) (Figure). In 2021, the range by reporting area of occurrence in abortion rates was considerable (from 0.1 to 21.8 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years in Missouri and the District of Columbia) and abortion ratios (from two to 447 abortions per 1,000 live births in Missouri and the District of Columbia) (Table 2). The percentage of abortions obtained by out-of-area residents also varied by reporting areas (from 0.6% in Arizona to 70.8% in the District of Columbia).
Age Group, Race and Ethnicity, and Marital Status
Among the 48 areas that reported abortion numbers by women’s age for 2021, women in their 20s accounted for more than half of abortions (57.0%) (Table 3). Women aged 20–24 and 25–29 years accounted for the highest percentages of abortions (28.3% and 28.7%, respectively) and had the highest abortion rates (19.7 and 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 20–24 and 25–29 years, respectively). By contrast, adolescents aged <15 years and women aged ≥40 years accounted for the lowest percentages of abortions (0.2% and 3.6%, respectively) and had the lowest abortion rates (0.4 and 2.5 abortions per 1,000 women aged <15 and ≥40 years, respectively). However, abortion ratios were highest among adolescents (805 and 381 abortions per 1,000 live births among those aged <15 years and 15–19 years, respectively) and lowest among women aged 30–34 and 35–39 years (137 and 141 abortions per 1,000 live births among those aged 30–34 and 35–39 years, respectively). Among the 43 reporting areas that provided data each year by women’s age for 2012–2021, the highest percentages of abortions and the highest abortion rates occurred among women aged 20–29 years and the lowest percentages of abortions and lowest abortion rates occurred among adolescents aged <15 years and women aged ≥40 years (Table 4). From 2020 to 2021, abortion rates increased among women aged 20–39 years, decreased among adolescents aged 15–19 years, and did not change among adolescents aged <15 years and women aged ≥40 years. From 2012 to 2021, abortion rates decreased among all age groups, except women aged 30–34 years for whom it increased. The decrease in the abortion rate was highest among adolescents (50% and 41% for adolescents aged <15 and 15–19 years, respectively) compared with any other age group. From 2020 to 2021, abortion ratios increased for women aged 15–24 years, decreased among adolescents aged <15 years and women aged ≥35 years and did not change for women aged 25–34 years. From 2012 to 2021, abortion ratios increased among women aged 15–29 years and decreased among adolescents aged <15 years and women aged ≥30 years. The decrease in abortion ratio from 2012 to 2021 was highest among women aged ≥40 years compared with any other age group. Among the 46 areas that reported age by individual year among adolescents for 2021, adolescents aged 18–19 years accounted for the highest percentage (72.0%) of adolescent abortions and had the highest abortion rates (8.3 and 12.0 abortions per 1,000 adolescents aged 18 and 19 years, respectively) (Table 5). Among adolescents, those aged <15 years accounted for the lowest percentage of abortions (2.7%) and had the lowest abortion rate (0.4 abortions per 1,000 adolescents aged 13–14 years). The abortion ratio for adolescents was highest among those aged <15 years (789 abortions per 1,000 live births) and was lowest among those aged 17–19 years (352, 400, and 329 abortions per 1,000 live births among adolescents aged 17, 18, and 19 years, respectively). Among the 33 areas that reported race by ethnicity data for 2021, non-Hispanic White (White) women and non-Hispanic Black (Black) women accounted for the highest percentages of all abortions (30.2% and 41.5%, respectively), and Hispanic women and non-Hispanic women in the other race category accounted for lower percentages (21.8% and 6.5%, respectively) (Table 6). White women had the lowest abortion rate (6.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years) and ratio (116 abortions per 1,000 live births), and Black women had the highest abortion rate (28.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years) and ratio (498 abortions per 1,000 live births). For 2021, among the 37 areas that reported by marital status, 12.7% of women who obtained an abortion were married, and 87.3% were unmarried (Table 7). The abortion ratio was 41 abortions per 1,000 live births for married women and 404 abortions per 1,000 live births for unmarried women.
Previous Live Births and Previous Induced Abortions
For 2021, among the 42 areas that reported the number of previous live births, 39.3%, 24.3%, 20.0%, 9.8%, and 6.6% of abortions reported were among women who had zero, one, two, three, or four or more previous live births, respectively (Table 8). Among the 42 areas that reported the number of previous induced abortions, 57.3%, 24.5%, 10.5%, and 7.7% of abortions reported were among women who had had zero, one, two, or three or more previous induced abortions, respectively (Table 9).
For 2021, a total of 625,978 abortions were reported to CDC by 48 areas. Among the 47 continuously reporting areas, for 2021, the abortion rate was 11.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years, and the abortion ratio was 204 abortions per 1,000 live births. From 2020 to 2021, the number of abortions increased 5%, the abortion rate increased 5%, and the abortion ratio increased 4%.
Multiple factors influence the incidence of abortion, including access to health care services and contraception (39–41); the availability of abortion providers and clinics (37,42–44); state regulations, such as mandatory waiting periods (45–47), parental involvement laws (48,49), and legal restrictions on abortion providers and clinics (50–56); and changes in the economy and the resulting impact on family planning decisions and contraceptive use (57).
Abortion measures differ by age group. Among areas that reported data continuously by age during 2012–2021, women aged 20–29 accounted for the highest percentages of abortions and had the highest abortion rates, whereas adolescents aged <15 years accounted for the lowest percentage of abortions and had the lowest abortion rate. Adolescents aged <15 years and 15–19 years had the highest abortion ratios. During 2012–2021, women aged ≥40 years accounted for a small percentage of reported abortions (≤3.7%). However, the abortion ratio among women aged ≥40 years continues to be higher than among women aged 25–39 years.
The percentage changes in adolescent abortions described in this report are important for monitoring changes in adolescent pregnancies in the United States. From 2012 to 2021, national birth data indicate that the birth rate for adolescents aged 15–19 years decreased 53% (34), and the data in this report indicate that the abortion rate for the same age group decreased 41%. These findings highlight that decreases in adolescent births in the United States have been accompanied by large decreases in adolescent abortions.
As in previous years, abortion rates and ratios differed across racial and ethnic groups. For example, in 2021 compared with White women, abortion rates and ratios were 4.5 and 4.3 times higher among Black women and 1.9 and 1.6 times higher among Hispanic women, respectively. Similar differences by race and ethnicity have been demonstrated in other U.S.-based studies (2,9–12). The factors leading to higher abortion rates among certain racial and ethnic minority groups are complex. In addition to disparities in rates of unintended pregnancies (58), structural factors, including unequal access to quality family planning services (59,60) and economic inequities, as well as mistrust of the medical system (61), can contribute to observed differences.
During 2021, approximately four of five abortions occurred early in gestation (≤9 weeks), when the risks for complications are lowest (62–65). During the past 10 years, this percentage increased from 74.8% in 2012 to 79.1% in 2021. Moreover, among areas that reported abortions at ≤13 weeks’ gestation by individual week, the distribution of abortions by gestational age continued to shift toward earlier weeks of gestation, with the percentage of abortions performed at ≤6 weeks’ gestation increasing from 35.0% in 2012 to 39.5% in 2021. Previous research indicates that the distribution of abortions by gestational age differs by various sociodemographic characteristics (66–68). In this report, the percentage of adolescents aged ≤19 years who obtained abortions at >13 weeks’ gestation was higher than the percentage among women aged ≥20 years. The gestational age when abortions are performed can be influenced by multiple factors, including state or jurisdiction abortion restrictions, accurate estimation of gestational age, income level, age, and presence of pregnancy-related health conditions (45,65,67–72).
The findings in this report are subject to at least four limitations. First, because reporting to CDC is voluntary and reporting requirements vary by the individual reporting areas (15,16), CDC is unable to report the total number of abortions performed in the United States. Of the 52 areas from which CDC requested data for 2021, California, Maryland, New Hampshire, and New Jersey did not submit abortion data. In 2020, the most recent year for which data are available through the Guttmacher Institute’s national survey of abortion-providing facilities, abortions performed in these states accounted for approximately 25% of all abortions in the United States (37). CDC receives aggregated data from the central health agencies of reporting areas, which might result in different estimates than reported by the Guttmacher Institute. In addition, even in reporting areas that legally require clinicians to submit a report for every abortion performed, enforcement of this requirement varies (15).
Second, many states and jurisdictions use abortion reporting forms that differ from the technical guidance that NAPHSIS developed with technical assistance from CDC. Consequently, certain reporting areas do not collect all variables requested by CDC (e.g., age, race, ethnicity) or do not report the data in a manner consistent with this guidance (e.g., gestational age). Missing demographic information can reduce the extent to which the statistics in this report represent women who have had abortions. Only 33 reporting areas reported race and ethnicity data to CDC that met CDC’s reporting standards. Certain areas that either do not report to CDC (e.g., California) or do not report race and ethnicity data (e.g., Illinois) have sufficiently large populations of racial and ethnic minority groups that the absence of data from these areas reduces the representativeness of CDC data for these variables. In addition, because of the variability in data collection for race and ethnicity among reporting areas, data for specific racial and ethnic groups beyond White, Black, and Hispanic are not requested or reported. In addition, certain areas collect gestational age data that are based on estimated date of conception or probable postfertilization age, which are not consistent with medical conventions for gestational age reporting. Without medical guidance on how to report these data, the validity and reliability of gestational age for these reporting areas is uncertain.
Third, abortion data are compiled and reported to CDC by the central health agency of the reporting area in which the abortion was performed rather than the reporting area in which the person lived. Thus, the available population (23–32) and birth data (33,34), which are organized by the states or jurisdictions in which women live, might differ from the population of women who undergo abortions in a specific reporting area. This likely results in an overestimation of abortions for reporting areas in which a higher percentage of abortions are obtained by out-of-area residents and an underestimation of abortions for reporting areas where residents more frequently obtain abortions out of area. Limited abortion services, stringent regulatory requirements for obtaining an abortion, or geographic proximity to services in another state or jurisdiction might influence where women obtain abortion services (85,86).
Finally, CDC reporting of sociodemographic characteristics of women obtaining abortions is limited to data collected on state or jurisdiction reporting forms. Therefore, the examination of additional demographic variables (e.g., income and education) is not possible.
Ongoing surveillance of legal induced abortion is important for several reasons. First, abortion surveillance can be used to help evaluate programs aimed at promoting equitable access to patient-centered contraceptive care in the United States to reduce unintended pregnancies. Up to 42% of pregnancies in the United States are unintended (58), and use of effective contraception is a strategy to reduce unintended pregnancy (87). Efforts to improve contraceptive access have been associated with declines in the rate of abortion (39–41). Providing contraception at low or no cost can increase contraceptive access and use (88–90). Improvements in provider reimbursement and training, patient-centered counseling, youth-friendly services, and client awareness of available contraceptive methods might also help to improve contraceptive access (91–93), ensure equitable access to patient-centered contraceptive care, and promote equitable reproductive health in the United States (94).
Second, routine abortion surveillance can be used to assess changes in clinical practice patterns over time. Information in this report on the number of abortions performed through different methods (e.g., medication or surgical) and at different gestational ages provides the denominator data that are necessary for analyses of the relative safety of abortion practices (95). Finally, information on the number of pregnancies ending in abortion is used in conjunction with data on births and fetal losses to estimate the number of pregnancies in the United States and determine rates for various outcomes of public health importance (58).
Corresponding author: Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC. Email: cdcinfo@cdc.gov.
1Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC; 2Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
1.Gamble SB, Strauss LT, Parker WY, Cook DA, Zane SB, Hamdan S; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Abortion surveillance—United States, 2005. MMWR Surveill Summ 2008;57(No. SS-13):1–32. PMID:19037196
2.Jones RK, Kost K, Singh S, Henshaw SK, Finer LB. Trends in abortion in the United States. Clin Obstet Gynecol 2009;52:119–29. https://doi.org/10.1097/GRF.0b013e3181a2af8f PMID:19407518
3.Pazol K, Zane SB, Parker WY, Hall LR, Berg C, Cook DA; CDC. Abortion surveillance—United States, 2008. MMWR Surveill Summ 2011;60(No. SS-15):1–41. PMID:22108620
4.Jones RK, Kooistra K. Abortion incidence and access to services in the United States, 2008. Perspect Sex Reprod Health 2011;43:41–50. https://doi.org/10.1363/4304111 PMID:21388504
5.Kortsmit K, Jatlaoui TC, Mandel MG, et al. Abortion surveillance—United States, 2018. MMWR Surveill Summ 2020;69(No. SS-7):1–29. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6907a1 PMID:33237897
6.Jones RK, Witwer E, Jerman J. Abortion incidence and service availability in the United States, 2017. New York, NY: Guttmacher Institute; 2019. https://www.guttmacher.org/report/abortion-incidence-service-availability-us-2017
Jan 31, 2021 · Americans United for Life’s report “Unsafe” is a powerful antidote to that pervasive, media-induced ignorance. In the report, you’ll find hard data that can be so difficult to locate — the kinds of facts that are crucial to informed, honest, clear-eyed discussions about the reality of abortion in our country.
Americans United for Life ( AUL) is an American anti-abortion law firm and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1971, the group opposes abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, embryonic stem cell research, and certain contraceptive methods.
