Half a million abortions occurred in the U.S. in the first six months of 2025 — and it’s likely an undercount.
That’s according to the latest Society of Family Planning: #WeCount report, an effort to capture national shifts in abortion by state and by month in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
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The report shows abortions continue to increase nationwide as telehealth facilitates access to abortion-inducing drugs and shield laws protect providers who prescribe the medication to women living in states where abortion is illegal. It does not account for self-managed abortions (ending a pregnancy outside the formal healthcare system) or track whether women who received abortion medication followed through and ended their pregnancies.
591,770
That’s how many abortions were reported between January and June 2025.
While the figure represents a continuing upward trend in both legal and illegal pregnancy termination, it’s a smaller increase than previous years. There were 585,240 abortions recorded during the same time period in 2024, and 523,550 in 2023.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Tessa Redmond and originally published by Kentucky Today.
