For many Americans, it has become much more difficult to have an abortion since the time of the Supreme Court Inverted Row against Wade V 2022. But even in the face of states that vowing new restrictions and clinics Turning offThe number of abortions continued to rise every year – for now, it seems, this.
About 518 940 abortions were provided by clinicians in the States without bans of abortion in almost the first six months of 2025-at 5% decrease compared to the same period earlier, according to new studies published by the Gutmamer Institute, which studies and supports sexual and reproductive health and rights. The number of people traveling to the States for abortion at that time also fell by about 8% compared to the same period in 2024.
New results note a change in the trend observed in previous studies published by the Gutmamer Institute: past data showed that the number of abortions provided by clinicians in most the United States. bounced 11% in 2023a year after the court decisionIN Compared to 2020. In 2024, this number increased slightly– less than 1% – compared to a year earlier. This year, a trip outside the state led to a slight decrease compared to 2023.
While the number of people traveling along state lines for abortion continued this year, this figure is still “much higher” than before Caviar was canceledIN Researchers noted.
Isabelle Dockpo, the senior researcher Guttmacher, who worked on a new analysis, suggests that one of the explanations of the general decrease in the group’s conclusions may be that the growing use of the so -called provisions about the shield by mail means that more people in the states with almost a total can receive tablets for abortion by phone, and not in the roadway by states.
Dockepo reports that the researchers have only abortion provided by clinicians in the States without prohibitions on almost total ones, so Gutmamer's estimates do not include abortion tablets sent to states with almost total prohibitions in accordance with the laws on the shield or self -governing abortion. This means that, according to her, “we should not consider these grades in order to reflect trends in abortion throughout the country.”
Rather, Docampo says that the data “emphasizes that the laws on protection, I think, are a critical option that people use.”
“This is the innovation over the past couple of years that I consider incredibly important, and it is important that politicians and lawyers continue to protect and expand these provisions because it is clear that they were incredibly important for the landing landing landing to the United States,” she continues.
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Another explanation of this trend may be Increasing the burden of travel Within state lines, in order to gain access to the care, which Dochapo says, indicates “the need for politicians to solve some of these financial strains.”
Dochapo also indicates that there are differences in the data between states.
The decrease in the number of abortion provided was the largest in the States that banned abortion after six weeks of pregnancy in 2024 and in the States, which bordered those who had almost total prohibitions. For example, in Florida, in the first six months of 2025, it was 27% less abortion provided by the clinicians, compared with the same period earlier. Florida implemented a six -week ban in 2024; Prior to this, the state had a 15-week ban.
Illinois, who, according to Dockpo, is the main place for people traveling from other states to gain access to abortion, observes a significant decrease in the number of travelers outside this year. And this fall amounted to almost three quarters of a total reduction in the number of abortions presented in the state. “Reducing travel is the main source of reduction in hostels in Illinois,” she says.
Meanwhile, in New York, the number of abortions provided by doctors in the state decreased by about 5%, but the number of people traveling to the state to access medical care increased by about 51%. Dampo says that this was probably because there were more people traveling from Florida to New York, given the new restrictions of Florida to abortion.
In general, however, Docampo says that the study indicates a tendency to appeal from previous years, when the number of abortion provided increased.
Diana Green Foster is a professor at the University of California at San Francisco, who was not related to the research of Gutmamer – aggression, that the obvious general decrease in abortion provided so far this year but she says that some people may not get access to tablets through the laws of the shield or travel outside the state in order to get assistance.
“For me, a decrease is simply anxious that there may be people who want abortions who do not receive them,” says Foster. Foster spent her years Research project This found that people who were aborted had the worst results in the field of economics and health than those who received help.
“My great concern is whether people who need to travel can travel,” she says. “From these data we do not know that they are not so, but this concerns the possibility.”
