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What we are up against

  • 5 abortion clinics operate in Orlando.
  • 84% of post-abortive women say they felt abortion was their only option.
  • 1 in 10 college women gets pregnant.
  • The University of Central Florida is the 2nd largest college in the U.S.
  • Seminole County contains 11 poverty pockets.


These statistics highlight the local need for unplanned pregnancy support and access to free pregnancy counseling, especially for students and low-income communities.







Abortion Overview

  • 2023 saw an estimated 1,037,000 abortions provided in formal health care settings—reflecting an 11% increase from 2020, and marking the highest annual count in over a decade
  • 2024 maintained these elevated levels, totaling approximately 1.14 million abortions (about 95,000 per month)—driven largely by increasing telehealth and mail-access medication abortions
  • Medication abortions accounted for around 63% of all abortions in 2023, up from 53% in 2020
  • By the end of 2024, 25% of abortions were conducted via telehealth, including under “shield laws” that protect providers mailing abortion pills to      restricted-access states
  • Out-of-state abortion patients accounted for roughly 15–16% of abortions in 2023–2024.
  • States like Illinois (35,000 travelers), North Carolina (16,700), Kansas (16,100), and New Mexico (12,800) provided high volumes to non-residents Kansas, in particular, saw a 58% increase in total abortions in 2023, with most patients traveling from other states

In 2020 more than 100,000 abortions were funded through Medi-Cal in California. 6% of the abortions were between 14-20 weeks. In 2020 30,939 abortions in New York were funded by New York Medicaid Funds.

Only 9 countries in the world have a higher reported abortion rate than the United States. They are: Bulgaria, Cuba, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.*


*Though the UN lists China’s official abortion rate at 19.2, China’s actual abortion rate is likely much higher. According to China’s 2010 census, there were approximately 310 million women of reproductive age in the country. An estimated 13-23 million abortions happen annually in China, resulting in an adjusted abortion rate of 41.9-74.2. The abortion rate is the number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44.

Primary, nationwide abortion statistics for the United States are available from two sources—privately from the Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and publicly from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In recent years, California, Maryland, and New Hampshire have not publicly released their abortion totals—rendering the CDC numbers incomplete. The following information has been gleaned from both sources to provide an overview of the frequency and demography of abortion. Additional, secondary statistics have been taken from the National Abortion Federation’s (NAF) 2009 teaching text on abortion, Management of Unintended

and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive Abortion Care.


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  Who Seeks Abortions?

  • Women aged 20s have the highest abortion rates;
  • 40.4% of women had no prior births, 45.7% had one or two, and 13.8% had three or more
  • 10.4% of those were adolescents (age 15–19) .
  • 85.5% of abortions were on unmarried women (2014)
  • Women on Medicaid had a 3× higher abortion rate compared to others

  Timing & Methods

  • 89–92% of abortions happen in the first trimester (≤13 weeks);
  • 7.2% occur between 14–20 weeks, and 1.3% after 21 weeks
  • 76% of abortions (2014) involved surgical curettage; approximately 24% were medication abortions.

Why Do Abortions Occur?

2004 Guttmacher Institute Study

In 2004, the Guttmacher Institute anonymously surveyed 1,209 post-abortive women from nine abortion clinics across the U.S.
Of these, 957 women provided a main reason for having an abortion.


Top Reported Reasons:


  • Life-changing timing
    74% said having a child would substantially alter their life plans.
  • Feeling unready
    Many reported they were not emotionally, financially, or practically prepared for a child at that time.
  • Financial concerns
    About 73% said they could not afford to raise a child.
  • Relationship instability / single parenthood concerns
    Around 48% cited lack of partner support or not wanting to parent alone.
  • Influence or pressure from others
    Reported less frequently (~5%), but included societal or interpersonal pressure.

Florida State Records – 2015

Florida requires a reason to be recorded for every abortion.
In 2015, there were 71,740 abortions in Florida.


Reported Reasons:


  • Having enough children already
    About 36–40% said their families were complete or they wanted to space births.
  • Maternal health concerns
    Roughly 12% cited concerns for their own health.
  • Fetal health concerns / abnormalities
    Approximately 13% mentioned fetal health complications.
  • Pregnancy from rape or incest
    Less than 1% cited this as the primary cause.
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Women in their 20’s accounted for the majority of abortions in 2014 and had the highest abortion rates. 

Abortion and Minors

39 states currently enforce parental consent or notification laws for minors seeking an abortion: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CO, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WV, and WY. The Supreme Court ruled that minors must have the alternative of seeking a court order authorizing the procedure (AGI).

40% of minors having an abortion report that neither of their parents knew about the abortion.

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Who is Doing The Abortions?

  • The number of abortion providers declined by 3% between 2011 and 2014—from 1,720 to 1,671 (AGI).
  • In 2011, 42% of providers offered very early abortions (during the first four weeks’ gestation) and 95% offered abortion at eight weeks. Sixty-four percent of providers offer at least some second-trimester abortion services (13 weeks or later), and 20% offer abortion after 20 weeks. Eleven percent of all abortion providers offered abortions past 24 weeks (AGI).

The Cost of Abortion

Abortion Pill Costs

Medication abortion, also called the abortion pill, is FDA approved for use up to 10 weeks from a woman’s last menstrual period (LMP). The typical cost for the abortion pill in Florida is $500-$700.


Suction Abortion Cost

Suction aspiration, also called suction curettage, or vacuum aspiration abortion, is performed between 5 and 13 weeks LMP. The cost in Florida ranges from $700-$1,250.


D&E Abortion Cost

D&E abortion (dilation and evacuation procedure) is performed from 14 to the point of fetal viability. The typical cost for D&E abortion in Florida is between $850-$1,850 or more.

  • The U.S. Congress has barred the use of federal Medicaid funds to pay for abortions, except when the woman’s life would be endangered by a full-term pregnancy or in cases of rape or incest (AGI).
  • 17 states (AK, AZ, CA, CT, HI, IL, MA, MD, MN, MT, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA and WV) use public funds to pay for abortions for some poor women. About 14% of all abortions in the United States are paid for with public funds—virtually all from the state (AGI).

Only 5% of U.S. abortions occur in hospitals; 2% occur in physician’s offices.


The rest occur in freestanding abortion clinics— without any established doctor-patient relationship (NAF).

Abortion Fatality

  • 2021 - 5
  • 2020 - 6
  • 2019 - 4

Every year, worldwide, about 42 million women with unintended pregnancies choose abortion, and nearly half of these procedures, 20 million, are unsafe. 68,000 women have died of unsafe abortions annually, making it one of the leading causes of maternal mortality (13%).

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