The Associated Press has collected the latest annual numbers of abortions from health departments in all 45 states that compile such data on a comprehensive basis.
This table shows the results, comparing the most recent numbers — mostly from 2013 or 2014 — to 2010, the year before legislative efforts intensified of efforts in many states to enact new restrictions affecting access to abortion. For Arizona, the base year is 2011, when it began a new abortion-reporting system.
Five states — California, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Wyoming — do not compile comprehensive abortion data. The table omits the District of Columbia, which did not have data more recent than 2012.
For the states that do compile abortion data, their laws generally require all providers — including hospitals, clinics and individual physicians — to report how many abortions they performed, the age of the woman receiving the procedure and the method used. That includes surgery and medication, generally using abortion pills containing the drug mifepristone (also known as RU-486). According to a recent Guttmacher Institute survey, such abortions accounted for 23 percent of all abortions in the U.S.
A few states either did not tally medical abortions or did not provide a breakdown of methods used. In some cases, the overall state numbers may not account for all abortions in the state.
In aggregate, however, the figures below represent an update over the latest authoritative nationwide figures compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and by the Guttmacher Institute. Their latest nationwide reports have figures from 2011.
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Alabama
2010: 9,029
2013: 7,423
Change: Down 7.8 percent
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Alaska:
2010: 1,715
2014: 1,361
Change: Down 20.6 percent
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Arizona
2011: 13,606
2014: 12,900
Change: Down 5.2 percent
(Arizona changed its abortion-reporting system in 2011)
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Arkansas:
2010: 4,532
2014: 4,273
Change: Down 5.7 percent
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California:
No data available. State does not mandate reporting by abortion providers.
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Colorado:
2010: 11,210
2013: 10,199
Change: Down 9 percent
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Connecticut:
2010: 13,438
2014: 10,629
Change: Down 20.9 percent.
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Delaware:
2010: 4,666
2012: 3,823
Change: Down 18.1 percent
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Florida:
2010: 79,908
2014: 72,107
Change: Down 9.8 percent
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Georgia:
2010: 31,315
2013: 30,378
Change: Down 3 percent
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Hawaii:
2010: 3,064
2014: 2,147
Change: Down 29.9 percent
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Idaho:
2010: 1,510
2013: 1,375
Change: Down 8.9 percent
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Illinois: (surgical abortions only)
2010: 41,859
2013: 40,750
Change: Down 2.6 percent
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Indiana:
2010: 10,031
2013: 8,027
Change: Down 20 percent
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Iowa:
2010: 5,399
2013: 4,423
Change: Down 18.1 percent
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Kansas:
2010: 8,373
2014: 7,263
Change: Down 13.3 percent
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Kentucky:
2010: 3,929
2014: 3,442
Change: Down 12.4 percent
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Louisiana:
2010: 8,872
2014: 9,932
Change: Up 11.9 percent
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Maine:
2010: 2,311
2014: 2,020
Change: Down 12.6 percent
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Maryland:
No data available. State does not mandate reporting by abortion providers.
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Massachusetts:
2010: 20,802
2013: 19,448
Change: Down 6.5 percent
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Michigan:
2010: 23,307
2014: 27,629
Change: Up 18.5 percent
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Minnesota:
2010: 11,505
2013: 9,903
Change: Down 13.9 percent
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Mississippi
2010: 2,297
2013: 2,170
Change: Down 5.5 percent
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Missouri:
2010 - 6,163
2014: 5,060
Change: Down 17.9 percent
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Montana:
2010: 2,160
2013: 1,842
Change: Down 14.7 percent
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Nebraska:
2010: 2,464
2014: 2,270
Change: Down 7.9 percent
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Nevada:
2010: 7,787
2013: 6,056
Change: Down 22.1 percent
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New Hampshire:
No data available. State does not mandate reporting by abortion providers.
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New Jersey:
No comprehensive data available. Health Department does not track number of abortions.
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New Mexico:
2010:4,478
2013: 3,408
Change: Down 23.9 percent
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New York:
2010: 111,212
2013: 94,326
Change: Down 15.2 percent
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North Carolina:
2010: 30,952
2013: 22,820
Change: Down 26.3 percent
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North Dakota:
2010: 1,291
2013: 1,182
Change: Down 8.4 percent
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Ohio:
2010: 28,123
2013: 23,216
Change: Down 17.4 percent
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Oklahoma:
2010: 5,641
2013: 4,587
Change: Down 18.7 percent
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Oregon:
2010: 9,990
2014: 8,198
Change: Down 17.9 percent
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Pennsylvania:
2010: 36,788
2013: 32,108
Change: Down 12.7 percent
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Rhode Island:
2010: 4,181
2013: 3,251
Change: Down 22.2 percent
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South Carolina:
2010: 6,464
2014: 5,708
Change: Down 11.7 percent
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South Dakota:
2010: 737
2013: 601
Change: Down 18.5 percent
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Tennessee:
2010: 16,373
2013: 14,216
Change: Down 13.3 percent
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Texas:
2010: 72,592
2013: 63,849
Change: Down 12 percent
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Utah:
2010: 3,446
2013: 2,893
Change: Down 16 percent
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Vermont:
2010: 1,333
2013: 1,217
Change: Down 8.7 percent
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Virginia:
2010: 25,940
2013: 20,852
Change: Down 19.6 percent
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Washington:
2010: 21,124
2013: 17,592
Change: Down 16.7 percent
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West Virginia:
2010: 1,999
2013: 1,876
Change: Down 6.2 percent
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Wisconsin:
2010: 7,825
2013: 6,462
Change: Down 17.4 percent
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Wyoming:
No comprehensive data available. Health department says number of abortions too low to meet threshold for vital statistics reporting.