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The Guttmacher Institute collects state-level data on publicly funded family planning services, unintended and teen pregnancy, and abortion. The Institute also tracks and analyzes state policies regarding abortion rights and access, minors’ access to services, funding for contraceptive services, sex and HIV education, and other topics related to sexual and reproductive health and rights.

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    State Facts About Abortion

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    State Facts About Unintended Pregnancy

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 58%

    of women 13–44 live in a state hostile or extremely hostile to abortion rights
  • 38%

    of women 13–44 live in a state supportive of abortion rights
  • 50

    states (and DC) allow all or most minors to consent to STI services

Resources

  • January 2016 Infographic

    States enacted nearly as many new abortion restrictions in the last five years as in the previous 15 years

    United States

    • Abortion
  • January 2016 Infographic

    States have taken many routes to restricting access to abortion over the last five years

    United States

    • Abortion
  • January 2016 News in Context

    2015 Year-End State Policy Roundup

    Elizabeth Nash, Rachel Benson Gold, Zohra Ansari-Thomas and Gwendolyn Rathbun

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
  • January 2016 Blog / Letter / Op-ed

    Attacks on Abortion Rights Continued in 2015, Ensnaring Family Planning Funding and Fetal Tissue Research

    Rachel Benson Gold and Elizabeth Nash,Rewire

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
  • July 2015 Report

    Contraceptive Needs and Services, 2013 Update

    Jennifer J. Frost, Lori F. Frohwirth and Mia R. Zolna

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • January 2015 Report

    Unintended Pregnancy Rates at the State Level: Estimates for 2010 and Trends Since 2002

    Kathryn Kost

    United States

    • Pregnancy
  • August 2014 News Release

    Twenty Million American Women In Need Of Publicly Funded Family Planning Services In 2012

    United States

    • Contraception
  • July 2014 Infographic

    Claim that Most Abortion Clinics Are Located in Black or Hispanic Neighborhoods Is False

    United States

    • Abortion
  • June 2014 News in Context

    Claim that Most Abortion Clinics Are Located in Black or Hispanic Neighborhoods Is False

    United States

    • Abortion
  • February 2014 Research Article

    Abortion Incidence and Service Availability In the United States, 2011

    Rachel K. Jones and Jenna Jerman,Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Pregnancy

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Abortions in the United States are happening earlier in pregnancy than they used to: Two-thirds occur within the first eight weeks of pregnancy. Medication abortion helps make this possible.

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