Induced Abortion in the United States

This is a Fact Sheet full of contextualizing statistics about induced abortion in the US. It is created and published by the the Guttmacher Institute, which is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and globally. It describes the decreasing abortion rate since 1973, the demographics of the population that has abortions, the relative prevalence of medical vs. surgical abortion, and also contains some information about insurance coverage for abortion.