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Highlights

  • Roe v. Wade in Peril
  • COVID-19 impact
  • Reproductive Health Impact Study
  • Adding It Up
  • Abortion Worldwide
  • Guttmacher-Lancet Commission
  • U.S. policy resources
  • State policy resources
  • State legislation tracker

Reports

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Articles

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  • U.S. State Laws and Policies

Data & Visualizations

  • Data center
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  • Public-use data sets

Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Global

  • Abortion
  • Contraception
  • HIV & STIs
  • Pregnancy
  • Teens

U.S.

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United States

Abortion

The Guttmacher Institute is a primary source for research and policy analysis on abortion in the United States. In many cases, Guttmacher’s data are more comprehensive than state and federal government sources. The Institute’s work examines the incidence of abortion, access to care and barriers to obtaining services, factors underlying women’s decisions to terminate a pregnancy, characteristics of women who have abortions and the conditions under which women obtain them. Guttmacher also tracks abortion-related legislation and policies at the federal and state level, promoting access to abortion services and making an evidence-based case against restrictions that limit access.

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    Roe v. Wade in Peril: Our Latest Resources

  • Fact Sheet

    Induced Abortion in the United States

  • Policy Analysis

    Medication Abortion Now Accounts for More Than Half of All US Abortions

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 38%

    of women 13–44 live in a state supportive of abortion rights
  • 862K

    abortions performed in the United States in 2017
  • 59%

    of women obtaining abortions are mothers

Resources

  • October 2016 News Release

    Fungibility-Based Attacks on Family Planning Services Are Flawed, Hypocritical and Harmful to Women

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
  • October 2016 Policy Analysis

    “Fungibility”: The Argument at the Center of a 40-Year Campaign to Undermine Reproductive Health and Rights

    Joerg Dreweke,Guttmacher Policy Review

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
  • September 2016 News in Context

    40 Years Is Enough: Let’s End the Harmful and Unjust Hyde Amendment

    Ann M. Starrs

    United States

    • Abortion
  • September 2016 Blog / Letter / Op-ed

    40 Years Is Enough: Let’s End the Harmful and Unjust Hyde Amendment

    Ann M. Starrs,Huffington Post

    United States

    • Abortion
  • August 2016 News Release

    Most Patients Able to Obtain an Abortion Within One Week of Calling for an Appointment; Nearly One in 10 Wait More Than Two Weeks

    United States

    • Abortion
  • August 2016 Report

    Time to Appointment and Delays in Accessing Care Among U.S. Abortion Patients

    Rachel K. Jones and Jenna Jerman

    United States

    • Abortion
  • July 2016 Policy Analysis

    Laws Affecting Reproductive Health and Rights: State Trends at Midyear, 2016

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

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • July 2016 Infographic

    The 334 abortion restrictions enacted by states from 2011 to July 2016 account for 30% of all abortion restrictions since Roe v. Wade.

    United States

    • Abortion
  • July 2016 Policy Analysis

    Abortion in the Lives of Women Struggling Financially: Why Insurance Coverage Matters

    Heather D. Boonstra,Guttmacher Policy Review

    United States

    • Abortion
  • July 2016 News Release

    Efforts Aimed at Repealing the Hyde Amendment Gain Momentum

    United States

    • Abortion

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There has been a widespread assault on abortion rights and access at the state level. Since 1973, states have enacted well over 1,300 abortion restrictions, with a record 108 new restrictions enacted in 2021 alone.

Elizabeth Nash

Principal Policy Associate, State Issues

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