New data estimates show the number of abortions in the US remained stable in 2025, totalling some 1.126 million, with apparent declines in out-of-state travel for abortions offset by increasing access to telehealth abortions.
The actual number of abortions is likely higher, given certain exclusions in the estimates. At the same time, abortion data remains incomplete amid the lack of a mandatory, federal-level reporting system, researcher Mia Steupert of the Charlotte Lozier Institute – the education and research arm of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America – told OSV News 15 April.
The Guttmacher Institute, a national policy and research firm that supports legalized abortion, released data 24 March from its “Monthly Abortion Provision Study” for calendar year 2025.
Guttmacher found that the 2025 figures were “largely unchanged from 2024,” when the institute counted 1.124 million clinician-provided abortions.
Steupert detailed a number of gaps in abortion data, in the absence of a federally mandated reporting system, and given the inability to count the actual number of abortions from telehealth abortion pills.
“Even Guttmacher, in their methodology, notes that they’re not tracking the number of completed abortions,” said Steupert. “They’re only talking about abortion drugs sent.”
