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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
  • 25

    states restrict abortion coverage in insurance exchange plans
  • 50

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

Resources

  • Image: map showing the majority of women live in a county with no abortion clinic
    September 2019 Infographic

    Abortion Access in the United States, 2017

    United States

    • Abortion
  • September 2019 Infographic

    As U.S. abortion numbers decline, the share that are medication abortions rises steadily

    United States

    • Abortion
  • July 2019 Research Article

    Distance traveled to obtain clinical abortion care in the United States and reasons for clinic choice

    Liza Fuentes and Jenna Jerman,Journal of Women's Health
  • July 2019 Policy Analysis

    State Policy Trends at Mid-Year 2019: States Race to Ban or Protect Abortion

    Elizabeth Nash, Lizamarie Mohammed, Olivia Cappello, Sophia Naide and Zohra Ansari-Thomas

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
  • April 2019 Research Article

    “It’s not something you talk about really”: Information barriers encountered by women who travel long distances for abortion care

    Megan L. Kavanaugh, Jenna Jerman and Lori F. Frohwirth,Contraception

    United States

    • Abortion
  • April 2019 News Release

    Young Men’s Reports of Having Sex Before Age 13 Vary Widely by Their Race, Ethnicity and Geographic Area

    United States

    • Teens
  • April 2019 Research Article

    Sex Before Age 13 Among Males in the United States

    Laura D. Lindberg, Isaac Maddow-Zimet and Arik V. Marcell,Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

    United States

    • Teens
  • April 2019 Policy Analysis

    Radical Attempts to Ban Abortion Dominate State Policy Trends in the First Quarter of 2019

    Elizabeth Nash, Olivia Cappello, Sophia Naide, Lizamarie Mohammed and Zohra Ansari-Thomas

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • January 2019 Research Article

    Trends in Receipt of Contraceptive Services: Young Women in the U.S., 2002–2015

    Jennifer J. Frost and Laura D. Lindberg,American Journal of Preventive Medicine

    United States

    • Contraception
    • Teens
  • December 2018 Policy Analysis

    State Policy Trends 2018: With Roe v. Wade in Jeopardy, States Continued to Add New Abortion Restrictions

    Elizabeth Nash, Rachel Benson Gold, Zohra Ansari-Thomas, Olivia Cappello, Sophia Naide and Lizamarie Mohammed

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception

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