Medication Abortion Accounted for 63% of All US Abortions in 2023—An Increase from 53% in 2020

Guttmacher Institute research from the Monthly Abortion Provision Study shows that there were approximately 642,700 medication abortions in the United States in 2023, accounting for 63% of all abortions in the formal health care system. This is an increase from 2020, when medication abortions accounted for 53% of all abortions. The two-drug combination of mifepristone and misoprostol is the most common medication abortion regimen offered by US providers, and decades of research have established that medication abortion using mifepristone is highly safe and effective... The medication abortion counts for 2023 do not include self-managed medication abortions that take place outside...