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Abortion Industry Statistics

The U.S. abortion industry recorded an estimated 1.126 million clinician-provided abortions in 2025, explore the figures behind growth, companies and trends.
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Abortion Industry Statistics
Samuel NorbergWritten by Samuel Norberg·Fact-checked by Maya Johansson
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01Editorial Scope

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01 Industry overview

The abortion industry at a glance

The U.S. abortion industry recorded an estimated 1.126 million clinician-provided abortions in 2025, while telehealth and interstate care expanded amid a fragmented state-level regulatory environment.

1.126M[10]
Clinician abortions, 2025
753[10]
Brick-and-mortar clinics, 2025
24%[10]
Virtual-clinic share, 2025
16.7[10]
Abortions per 1,000 women, 2025
Market size
The latest available U.S. market-volume measure was an estimated 1,126,000 clinician-provided abortions in 2025. Guttmacher notes that this is an underestimate of total abortions because it excludes self-managed abortions and some non-clinician provision.[10]
Market share & regions
Access is geographically concentrated in states without total bans: 753 brick-and-mortar clinics operated in 37 states and the District of Columbia at the end of 2025, while 13 states with total bans had no operating clinics. Virginia provided 40,090 clinician abortions in 2025 and received more than 8,500 patients traveling from other states.[10]
Segmentation
Medication abortion accounted for 64% of clinician-provided abortions in 2023, the latest year with national method data, up from 53% in 2020. Online-only or virtual clinics accounted for 24% of clinician-provided abortions in 2025, compared with 20% in 2024 and 12% in 2023.[10]
Trends, drivers & challenges
Telehealth provision to residents of states with total bans increased from 74,000 abortions in 2024 to 91,000 in 2025. Physical clinic capacity declined 2%, from 765 clinics in March 2024 to 753 in December 2025, while Guttmacher identified 51 facilities that stopped providing abortion and 39 that began or resumed provision during the period.[10]
Consumer behavior & competition
Approximately 142,000 people crossed state lines for abortion care in 2025, representing 13% of all abortion patients; this was down from 154,000 in 2024. Travel nevertheless remained more than double pre-Dobbs levels, while telehealth provided an increasingly important alternative to interstate travel.[10]
Regulation
At the end of 2025, 13 states had total abortion bans and no brick-and-mortar clinics providing abortion care; the other 37 states and the District of Columbia had no total bans. Shield laws supported cross-state telehealth provision, which reached 14,870 abortions per month by December 2025 according to #WeCount.[10][8]
Latest news
The latest national full-year estimate, released in 2026, found 1,126,000 clinician-provided abortions in 2025, broadly unchanged from 1,124,000 in 2024. The same release reported a shift away from interstate travel and toward telehealth provision to residents of total-ban states.[10]

02 Ranking

Top 10 Companies in the Abortion Industry

The leading companies in the abortion industry, ranked on market impact, performance, momentum, innovation and brand popularity.

Updated November 11, 2026 · Next review December 11, 2026

Verdict

Planned Parenthood Federation of America stands out for providing abortion and reproductive healthcare services because it is the largest provider of reproductive healthcare incl. abortion services in the US, while Hey Jane focuses on virtual medication-abortion care since it reports serving more than 140,000 patients through virtual abortion care.

Ranked by Overall score · How we score ↓

Editor's top 3 picks

Where to start, by need.

  1. #1 Overall · Leader in abortion services

    Planned Parenthood Federation of America

    US

    Ranked #1 · 9.3 · Abortion services

    Why we picked it: It provides abortion and reproductive healthcare through affiliates and health centers across the United States.

    See in ranking ↓Visit plannedparenthood.org ↗

  2. #2 overall

    Hey Jane

    US

    Ranked #2 · 9.2 · Abortion services

    Why we picked it: It focuses on virtual medication-abortion care in the United States.

    See in ranking ↓Visit heyjane.com ↗

  3. #3 overall

    Abortion on Demand

    US

    Ranked #3 · 9.1 · Abortion services

    Why we picked it: It delivers physician-supported medication abortion through a virtual care model across multiple states.

    See in ranking ↓Visit abortionondemand.org ↗

Pick 1 is the #1 company overall. No other segment places in the top 5, so picks 2 and 3 follow rank.

Full ranking

Sort by
Top 10 companies in the abortion industry, 2026 – Gitnux ranking
#CompanyOverall ↓Company snapshot
1

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Abortion services · US

9.3
2

Hey Jane

Abortion services · US

9.2
3

Abortion on Demand

Abortion services · US

9.1
4

MSI Reproductive Choices

Abortion services · GB

9.0
5

bpas

Abortion services · GB

8.9
6

GenBioPro

Generic mifepristone for U.S. abortion care · US

8.9
7

Linepharma International

Mifepristone-misoprostol products, global · GB

8.9
8

Whole Woman's Health

Abortion clinics and virtual care, United States · US

8.6
9

Family Planning Association of India

Reproductive healthcare including abortion services, India · IN

8.1
10

American Women's Services

Abortion clinics, Mid-Atlantic United States · US

7.4

How we score

  • Impact (30%): scale and weight in the market (revenue, market share, employees, market position).
  • Performance (20%): recent revenue growth and operating margin; an analyst assessment where a company does not publish them.
  • Momentum (20%): growth trajectory and future potential.
  • Innovation (15%): R&D intensity and how technologically advanced the company is.

Popularity (brand search demand, 15%) counts toward Overall but is not published as a column. Overall leaves out what is not known.

Scale Scores are shown on a 7–10 scale with one decimal; bars start at 7.0.

Cadence Recalculated when new figures are published; next review December 11, 2026.

Independence. Rankings are editorially independent. Scores, ranks, picks and the verdict follow the method above; no company can pay to change them.

Cite this ranking

APA

Samuel Norberg. (2026, November 11). Top 10 companies in the abortion industry. In Abortion Industry Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/abortion-industry-statistics/#top-companies

report visual · Projection

Reported legal induced abortions in selected U.S. reporting areas

Reported legal induced abortions in selected U.S. reporting areas fell from 638K in 2015 to 620K in 2020.

638.2K count
Start
-0.57%
CAGR · 5y
620.2K count
Projected
20152020
source-verifiedcdc.gov2020

04 Statistics

Technology & Innovation

Telehealth continues taking share, with 538 virtual abortion clinics operating in the United States in 2025 and telehealth accounting for 29% of abortion care by the end of 2025.

Digital Transformation in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • About 90% of surveyed global healthcare C-suite executives expected digital technology use to accelerate in 2025, including 50% anticipating a significant impact.[1]
  • Across surveyed healthcare practitioners, 60% believed their organizations’ digital experiences met or exceeded customer needs in 2025.[2]
  • About 70% of surveyed healthcare executives said investing in technology platforms for digital tools and services would be important or very important in 2025.[1]
  • Among healthcare respondents to KPMG’s global technology survey, 49% were adopting DevSecOps approaches to adapt digital-transformation strategies.[3]
  • Across U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals, 71% used predictive AI integrated into electronic health records in 2024.[4]

Technology Adoption in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals, 81% enabled patient access through applications using application-programming-interface specifications in 2024.[4]
  • Across U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals, 92% enabled patients to securely message providers in 2024.[4]
  • Across U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals, 96% enabled patients to download health information electronically in 2024.[4]
  • Across U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals, 70% enabled patient access through applications using HL7 FHIR specifications in 2024.[4]
  • Across U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals, 84% enabled patients to transmit health information to a third party electronically in 2024.[4]
  • Across U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals, 99% enabled patients to view health information electronically in 2024.[4]

Cloud Computing in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across surveyed healthcare organizations globally, 18% had started adopting cloud services but lacked a comprehensive cloud strategy at the end of 2025.[5]
  • Across surveyed healthcare organizations globally, 8% reported minimal cloud adoption without formal strategy or governance at the end of 2025.[5]
  • Across surveyed healthcare organizations globally, 27% reported that cloud operations were well managed and integrated into overall IT strategy at the end of 2025.[5]
  • Across surveyed healthcare organizations globally, 31% had a formal cloud strategy and governance framework that was not yet integrated into IT strategy at the end of 2025.[5]
  • Across surveyed healthcare organizations globally, 15% reported that cloud adoption was fully integrated into business strategy at the end of 2025.[5]

Big Data in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across Brazilian healthcare facilities conducting Big Data analytics, 38% used geolocation data from mobile phones, wireless connections, or GPS in 2024.[6]
  • Across Brazilian healthcare facilities conducting Big Data analytics, 65% used patient demographics, forms, or medical-record data in 2024.[6]
  • Across Brazilian healthcare facilities conducting Big Data analytics, 72% used data from smart devices or sensors in 2024.[6]
  • Across Brazilian healthcare facilities conducting Big Data analytics, 48% used social-media data in 2024.[6]
  • Across Brazilian healthcare facilities conducting Big Data analytics, 77% used in-house staff rather than external providers in 2024.[6]

IoT in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Among Brazilian private healthcare facilities with internet access, 6% used IoT in 2024.[7]
  • Among Brazilian inpatient healthcare facilities with more than 50 beds and internet access, 19% used IoT in 2024.[7]
  • Across Brazilian healthcare facilities with internet access, 4% used IoT in 2024.[7]
  • Among Brazilian outpatient healthcare facilities with internet access, 3% used IoT in 2024.[7]
  • Among Brazilian inpatient healthcare facilities with up to 50 beds and internet access, 5% used IoT in 2024.[7]

Innovation in the abortion industry

  • Telehealth accounted for 29% of abortion care in the United States by the end of 2025, up from 25% in December 2024.[8]
  • 538 virtual abortion clinics operated in the United States in 2025, up from 423 in 2024 and 227 in 2023.[9]
  • 91,000 telehealth abortions were provided to patients in U.S. states with total bans in 2025, compared with 74,000 in 2024.[10]
  • At least 25 online-only abortion clinics operated across 28 U.S. states plus Washington, DC, as of February 2026.[10]

05 Statistics

Data & Analytics

Data governance and registry-quality issues remain material, with 50% of U.S. clinical data abstractors reporting data inaccuracies hamper clinical registry efforts in 2024.

Business intelligence in the abortion industry

  • 91,000 abortions were provided via telehealth to U.S. states with total bans in 2025.[10]
  • 609,360 abortions were reported across 47 U.S. reporting areas in 2022, providing a national operational measure of clinician-provided abortion activity.[11]
  • 199 abortions occurred per 1,000 live births in the 47 U.S. reporting areas with data in 2022.[11]
  • 12,330 abortions per month were provided under U.S. shield-law arrangements by the end of 2024.[8]

Data analytics in the abortion industry

  • 0.3% of patients in one U.S. telehealth clinic requested a phone or video call when asynchronous care allowed patients to request one.[12]
  • 5% of U.S. abortions were provided via telehealth in April–June 2022, according to the Society of Family Planning’s #WeCount study.[8]
  • 34.3% of patients in a U.S. telehealth medication-abortion study had unknown race or ethnicity because one clinic did not record those data during part of the study period.[12]
  • 25% of U.S. abortions were provided via telehealth by December 2024.[8]

Data Quality in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 50% of U.S. healthcare clinical data abstractors reported that data inaccuracies hamper clinical registry efforts in 2024.[13]
  • 40% of U.S. healthcare clinical data abstractors reported that incomplete data hampers clinical registry efforts in 2024.[13]
  • 75% of U.S. healthcare organizations represented in the survey predominantly used clinical registry data for quality and process improvement in 2024.[13]
  • 40% of U.S. healthcare clinical data abstractors reported that manual data entry hampers clinical registry efforts in 2024.[13]
  • 8% of U.S. healthcare organizations rated their provider data as excellent in 2022.[14]

Data Governance in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 77% of healthcare organizations reported that their governance functions met at least quarterly in 2025.[14]
  • 72% of healthcare organizations operated governance using approved policy and standards frameworks in 2025.[14]
  • 10% of healthcare organizations managed data governance exclusively within IT in 2025.[14]
  • 39% of healthcare organizations reported having a formally chartered data-governance function in 2025.[14]
  • 38% of healthcare organizations had formal data and information quality-management statements in 2025.[14]
  • 66% of healthcare organizations reported multidisciplinary representation in governance, including patient or consumer representatives, in 2025.[14]

KPIs in the abortion industry

  • 0.25% of patients experienced a serious abortion-related adverse event in a U.S. telehealth medication-abortion study.[15]
  • 23 days was the median time from mifepristone administration to adverse-event treatment among telehealth patients who required such treatment.[16]
  • 1.3% of medication abortions in the U.S. telehealth study were followed by an emergency-department visit.[15]
  • 0.16% of patients were treated for an ectopic pregnancy in the same U.S. telehealth medication-abortion study.[15]

06 Statistics

Strategy & Growth

Medication abortion stays dominant, accounting for 64% of clinician-provided abortions in 2023 while online-only or virtual clinics accounted for 24% in 2025.

Growth in the abortion industry

  • MSI Reproductive Choices reached 23.8 million people with reproductive healthcare in 2024, including abortion-related services and contraception.[17]
  • The U.S. abortion rate was 16.7 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 in 2025, 16% higher than in 2020.[10]
  • U.S. abortion volume was higher in 2024 than in both 2023 and 2022, according to the #WeCount surveillance project.[8]
  • Demand at Planned Parenthood health centers in states where abortion remained protected increased by as much as 700% after Dobbs.[18]

Differentiation in the abortion industry

  • safe2choose responded to 25,446 chatbot contacts, 17,356 chat contacts and 14,457 email contacts in 2024.[19]
  • Virtual clinics accounted for 24% of clinician-provided U.S. abortions in 2025, differentiating online-only providers from brick-and-mortar clinics.[10]
  • safe2choose recorded 1,260,367 website visits and more than 50,000 counseling requests globally in 2024.[19]
  • Planned Parenthood affiliates provided direct-to-patient telehealth care in 19 U.S. states and site-to-site telehealth in 20 states during its 2022–2023 reporting period.[18]

Strategic partnerships in the abortion industry

  • MSI Reproductive Choices operated through teams and partnerships spanning 36 countries in 2024.[20]
  • Planned Parenthood’s 90 patient navigators operated across 41 affiliates to coordinate abortion travel, financial support and referrals after Dobbs.[18]
  • DKT International’s Women’s Health and Family Planning program certified 12,000 medical-abortion providers through its partner network from 2015 to 2022.[21]
  • safe2choose made 13,606 referrals to abortion-care resources globally in 2024.[19]

07 Statistics

People & Workforce

Workforce capacity and retention pressures follow closures, with approximately 60% of staff lost after one abortion practice closed locations and reassigned employees after the Dobbs decision.

Employee retention in the abortion industry

  • Approximately 60% of staff were lost after one abortion practice closed locations and reassigned employees following the Dobbs decision, according to a 2025 industry compensation study.[22]
  • About 40% of clients were reportedly turned away by abortion practices in abortion-hostile states because of legal changes, contributing to high-anxiety jobs and turnover.[22]

Remote Work in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across U.S. medical groups, 18% of leaders expected their organization’s share of remote or hybrid jobs to decrease during 2024.[23]
  • Across U.S. health care and social assistance, 18% of full-time employees worked fully from home during December 2024–March 2025.[24]
  • Across U.S. medical groups, 52% reported that 1%–25% of their workforce worked remotely at least 50% of the time.[23]
  • Across U.S. medical groups, 22% of leaders expected their organization’s share of remote or hybrid jobs to increase during 2024.[23]

Hybrid Work in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across U.S. healthcare practitioners and technical roles, 16% had part-time remote availability, equivalent to hybrid availability, in the 2022 McKinsey American Opportunity Survey.[23]
  • About 6% of U.S. healthcare jobs were hybrid in a 2024 Robert Half survey cited by the Medical Group Management Association.[23]
  • Across U.S. health care and social assistance, 24% of full-time employees were in hybrid arrangements during December 2024–March 2025.[24]
  • About 12% of nonclinical healthcare administrative and customer-support jobs were hybrid in a 2024 Robert Half survey cited by the Medical Group Management Association.[23]
  • Across U.S. healthcare support roles, 14% had part-time remote availability, equivalent to hybrid availability, in the 2022 McKinsey American Opportunity Survey.[23]

Employee Engagement in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across NHS staff, the national staff-engagement theme score was 6.64 in the second quarter of 2024/25.[25]
  • U.S. registered nurses with low teamwork scores were 1.53 times more likely to leave their healthcare organization in 2024.[26]
  • Among U.S. healthcare advanced practice providers, 52% felt heard in 2024.[26]
  • Across 2.3 million U.S. healthcare workers, employee engagement declined by 0.02 points in 2024.[26]
  • Across U.S. healthcare workers, 78% believed their organization cared about their safety in 2024.[26]

Change Management in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across healthcare transformation studies using staff surveys, 78% reported successful transformation and 83% reported either success or partial success.[27]
  • Among Canadian healthcare transformation studies, 40% reported successful transformation and 60% reported either success or partial success.[27]
  • Among U.S. healthcare transformation studies, 88% reported successful transformation.[27]
  • Among 31 healthcare transformation studies excluding varied-success comparisons, 74% reported full success.[27]
  • Across 36 healthcare transformation studies, 64% reported successful transformation, 6% reported partial success, and 17% reported unsuccessful transformation.[27]

08 Statistics

Customer & Sales

Virtual-care satisfaction is high in patient-reported measures, including 98.0% of U.S. telehealth abortion patients in 2021–2022 saying they trusted the virtual clinic with their care.

Customer experience in the abortion industry

  • 91.9% of U.S. telehealth abortion patients in 2021–2022 said they felt cared for throughout the abortion process.[28]
  • 89.7% of U.S. telehealth abortion patients in 2021–2022 reported being very satisfied with the virtual-care model.[28]
  • 95.6% of U.S. telehealth abortion patients in 2021–2022 said telehealth was the right decision for them.[28]
  • 98.0% of U.S. telehealth abortion patients in 2021–2022 said they trusted the virtual clinic with their care.[28]

Customer retention in the abortion industry

  • 73.2% of patients receiving in-person medication abortion through Planned Parenthood health centers in six U.S. states said they would seek the same care again if needed.[29]
  • 83.3% of patients receiving telehealth medication abortion through Planned Parenthood health centers in six U.S. states said they would seek the same care again if needed.[29]

Customer loyalty in the abortion industry

  • 97% of U.S. patients using a direct-to-patient telehealth abortion service said they would recommend the service to a friend.[30]
  • 96% of U.S. patients using a direct-to-patient telehealth abortion service said they would use the service again for a future abortion.[30]

09 Statistics

Marketing & Brand

Search and content competition is visible after Dobbs, including 47% of Google Search advertisements shown in the year after Dobbs coming from crisis pregnancy centers seeking abortion information.

Marketing in the abortion industry

  • 47% of Google Search advertisements shown to U.S. users seeking abortion information came from crisis pregnancy centers in the year after Dobbs, compared with 30% from abortion clinics (United States, 2022–2023).[31]
  • 71% of crisis pregnancy centers identified in a study promoted deceptive techniques intended to mislead people seeking abortion information (United States, 2023).[32]
  • Over 45% of patients presenting to a Nebraska abortion clinic in 2014–2015 located the clinic through an online search (Nebraska, 2014–2015).[33]
  • 163 million earned-media impressions were generated by Planned Parenthood during its 2020–2021 fiscal year (United States, 2020–2021).[18]

Digital marketing in the abortion industry

  • 69 online-only clinics represented 9% of all medication-abortion providers in the United States in 2022 (United States, 2022).[10]
  • 8% of abortions provided within the formal U.S. health-care system came from online-only clinics during the first six months of 2023 (United States, 2023).[10]
  • 648 TikTok, Instagram and YouTube posts were produced by Planned Parenthood’s influencer collective during the campaign (United States, 2023–2024).[18]
  • 28 social-media influencers reached a combined 34.7 million followers for Planned Parenthood’s digital reproductive-health campaign (United States, 2023–2024).[18]

Branding in the abortion industry

  • Planned Parenthood ran a brand campaign across several states and used film festivals and other cultural channels to support its identity and abortion-rights messaging (United States, 2023–2024).[34]
  • Planned Parenthood launched a national campaign featuring patient storytellers to destigmatize abortion (United States, 2023–2024).[18]

Social media in the abortion industry

  • 716 Instagram posts from crisis pregnancy centers were analyzed across content collected between June 24, 2022, and October 15, 2025 (United States, 2022–2025).[35]
  • 21.5% of analyzed crisis-pregnancy-center Instagram content concerned digital engagement or optimization (United States, 2022–2025).[35]
  • 24 analyzed crisis-pregnancy-center posts, or 3.4% of the sample, used misleading appearance or advertising portraying the organization as a medical clinic (United States, 2022–2025).[35]

Influencer Marketing in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 33% of U.S.-focused health and wellness influencers promoted a product, service or subscription in more than half of their posts in 2026.[36]
  • 8.57 million influencer posts about the health industry generated a 1.07% average engagement rate globally in 2023.[37]
  • 92% of U.S.-focused health and wellness influencers included product or service promotions at least occasionally in 2026.[36]
  • 38% of posts from U.S.-focused health and wellness influencers promoted a product, service or subscription in 2026.[36]
  • 50% of healthcare and pharmaceutical marketers reported dedicated, growing creator/influencer budgets in 2026, compared with 58% globally.[38]

10 Statistics

Operations & Execution

Brick-and-mortar capacity contracted while virtual clinics expanded, with physical clinic counts down 2% from 765 clinics in March 2024 to 753 in December 2025.

Process optimization in the abortion industry

  • The median gestational limit for procedural abortion at U.S. facilities declined from 18 weeks in 2017 to 16 weeks in 2023 (United States, 2017–2023).[39]
  • Online-only clinics increased to 69 providers, or 9% of medication-abortion providers, in 2022 (United States, 2022).[10]
  • Telehealth medication abortion had a 91.6% follow-up-visit attendance rate in one California health-system study, compared with 84.5% for clinic-based care (California, 2020–2022).[40]
  • Medication-abortion-only facilities became an increasing share of U.S. abortion facilities in 2022 and 2023 (United States, 2022–2023).[39]

Operational efficiency in the abortion industry

  • Planned Parenthood patient navigators and support staff helped more than 171,000 people obtain abortion care after the Dobbs decision (United States, through 2024–2025).[34]
  • 14 in-person abortion clinics operated in Ohio in 2026, compared with 117 crisis pregnancy centers in 2025 (Ohio, 2025–2026).[41]
  • 753 brick-and-mortar clinics were providing abortion services in the United States at the end of 2025, down 2% from 765 in March 2024 (United States, 2025).[10]
  • The number of U.S. brick-and-mortar abortion clinics declined 7% from 807 in 2020 to 753 at the end of 2025 (United States, 2020–2025).[10]

Quality management in the abortion industry

  • Telehealth medication abortion in the same study had a 1.3% rate of post-abortion emergency-department visits (United States, 2021–2022).[15]
  • Telehealth medication abortion in a prospective study had a 0.25% serious abortion-related adverse-event rate (United States, 2021–2022).[15]
  • Medication abortion provided by advanced practice clinicians had a 99.6% safety rate in a study of four Planned Parenthood health centers (eastern United States, 2020–2023).[33]
  • Medication abortion provided by advanced practice clinicians had a 98.0% efficacy rate in the same four-center study (eastern United States, 2020–2023).[33]

Outsourcing / Offshoring in the healthcare services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 18% of U.S. medical-group leaders planned to outsource or automate patient communications in contact centers in 2024, according to an MGMA poll with 262 responses.[23]
  • 20% of U.S. medical-group leaders planned to outsource or automate some revenue-cycle-management activities in 2024, according to an MGMA poll with 262 responses.[23]
  • 54% of global healthcare providers used third-party providers for supply-chain services in 2024, based on a survey of 28 healthcare-provider executives.[42]
  • 29% of global healthcare providers used third-party providers for remote patient monitoring in 2024, based on a survey of 28 healthcare-provider executives.[42]
  • 46% of global healthcare providers used third-party providers for customer-experience services in 2024, based on a survey of 28 healthcare-provider executives.[42]

11 Statistics

Finance & Pricing

Price variation persists by care type and setting, including a median U.S. self-pay price of $563 for medication abortion in 2023.

Pricing strategy in the abortion industry

  • The median U.S. self-pay price was $1,000 for second-trimester abortion services in 2023 (United States, 2023).[39]
  • In 2023, median second-trimester procedural-abortion prices ranged from $440 to $3,025 across U.S. states and facilities (United States, 2023).[39]
  • The median U.S. self-pay price was $563 for medication abortion in 2023 (United States, 2023).[39]
  • In 2023, median medication-abortion prices ranged from $150 to $800 across U.S. states and facilities (United States, 2023).[39]
  • The median U.S. self-pay price was $650 for first-trimester procedural abortion in 2023 (United States, 2023).[39]

Cost reduction in the abortion industry

  • Planned Parenthood affiliates disbursed $3.7 million to more than 12,200 abortion patients for transportation, lodging, meals and dependent care during fiscal 2024–2025 (United States, 2024–2025).[34]
  • Planned Parenthood used 90 patient navigators across 41 affiliates to provide transportation, travel support, financial assistance and referrals in the year after Dobbs (United States, 2022–2023).[18]

Financial planning in the abortion industry

  • Planned Parenthood affiliates covered abortion-care costs for 12,200 patients with $3.7 million in financial assistance during fiscal 2024–2025 (United States, 2024–2025).[34]
  • Planned Parenthood affiliates distributed $3.7 million in patient assistance during fiscal 2024–2025, averaging more than $303 per supported patient (United States, 2024–2025).[34]
  • Planned Parenthood patient navigators helped more than 171,000 people access abortion care after Dobbs through logistical, travel and financial support (United States, through 2024–2025).[34]

12 Statistics

Product & Service

FDA and care-delivery parameters align with remote medication models, including FDA-approved maximum duration of 70 days of gestation for using mifepristone with misoprostol in medical abortion.

Product development in the abortion industry

  • 673,900 medication abortions were provided by U.S. clinicians in 2023.[10]
  • 2000 was the year the FDA first approved Mifeprex (mifepristone) for medical termination of intrauterine pregnancy in the United States.[43]
  • 2019 was the year the FDA approved the first generic version of Mifeprex, Mifepristone Tablets 200 mg.[43]
  • 98% of medication abortions in the United States used the combined mifepristone–misoprostol regimen in 2020.[10]

Product lifecycle in the abortion industry

  • 29% of U.S. abortions were obtained via telehealth by the end of 2025, indicating the scale of the industry’s shift toward remote medication delivery.[10]
  • 2023 marked the year the FDA permanently removed mifepristone dispensing restrictions that had limited the medication’s distribution and delivery model.[10]
  • At least 25 online-only clinics were providing remote abortion care in 28 U.S. states plus Washington, D.C., as of February 2026.[10]
  • 70 days of gestation is the FDA-approved maximum duration for using mifepristone with misoprostol for medical abortion in the United States.[43]

After-sales in the abortion industry

  • 6% of telehealth abortions with post-abortion contact involved an in-person follow-up visit in a U.S. cohort.[16]
  • 12% of telehealth abortions with post-abortion contact received remote follow-up care in a U.S. cohort.[16]
  • 82% of telehealth abortions with post-abortion contact in a U.S. study required no follow-up care or treatment beyond normal symptom progression or a negative pregnancy test.[16]
  • 2% of telehealth abortions in the study involved treatment for adverse events.[16]

Value proposition in the abortion industry

  • 64% of clinician-provided abortions in the United States were medication abortions in 2023.[10]
  • 10% of abortions in U.S. states without total bans were provided by online-only clinics in 2023.[10]
  • $3.7 million was disbursed by Planned Parenthood affiliates to more than 12,200 patients for abortion-related transportation, lodging, meals and dependent care in fiscal year 2024–2025.[34]
  • 155,000 people traveled across U.S. state lines for abortion care in 2024, nearly twice the number reported before the Dobbs decision.[10]

13 Statistics

Sustainability & Ethics

Data completeness affects outcome reporting, with 34.3% of patients in a U.S. telehealth medication-abortion study having unknown race or ethnicity.

Ethics in the abortion industry

  • 34.3% of patients in a U.S. telehealth medication-abortion study had unknown race or ethnicity because one clinic did not record those data during part of the study period, highlighting a data-equity limitation.[12]
  • 69.6% of patients receiving asynchronous telehealth care had known outcomes in the U.S. study.[12]
  • 26% of adverse-event treatments in a U.S. telehealth cohort were first raised during scheduled follow-up visits.[16]
  • 57.1% of American Indian or Alaska Native patients had known outcomes in the study, compared with higher ascertainment for several other patient groups.[12]

CSR in the abortion industry

  • 171,000 people received abortion-care navigation or logistical support from Planned Parenthood affiliates after the Dobbs decision, according to the organization’s 2024–2025 annual report.[34]
  • 50,000 people received assistance covering abortion costs from Planned Parenthood organizations in the year after the Dobbs decision.[18]
  • 12,200 patients received $3.7 million in abortion-related travel and logistical assistance from Planned Parenthood affiliates in fiscal year 2024–2025.[34]
  • 33,000 people received transportation, travel support, financial assistance or referrals from 90 Planned Parenthood patient navigators in the year after the Dobbs decision.[18]

15 Statistics

Globalization & Expansion

Cross-border service delivery shows scale, including MSI Reproductive Choices reaching 23.8 million people with reproductive healthcare in 2024.

Globalization in the abortion industry

  • Exelgyn reported distributing mifepristone to 40 countries in 2024.[21]
  • 23.8 million people accessed MSI Reproductive Choices’ reproductive healthcare globally in 2024.[17]
  • 36 countries were covered by MSI Reproductive Choices’ reproductive-health programs in 2024.[20]

Cultural adaptation in the abortion industry

  • 151,170 website users from the United States accessed safe2choose in 2024, the largest national user group reported.[19]
  • Six languages were supported by safe2choose’s abortion-support chatbot, launched in 2024.[19]
  • 115,638 website users from the Philippines accessed safe2choose in 2024, making it the second-largest national user group reported.[19]
  • 91% of people contacting safe2choose in 2024 were within the first 13 weeks of pregnancy when they first reached out.[19]

Supplier management in the abortion industry

  • 69 reporting programs sold 53,451,229 misoprostol tablets in 2024.[51]
  • 47 reporting programs sold 7,508,788 mifepristone–misoprostol combipack tablets in 2024.[51]
  • 19 reporting programs sold 211,667 abortion cannulae in 2024.[51]

Stakeholder management in the abortion industry

  • More than 15,000 people received Planned Parenthood assistance for abortion-related travel costs in the year covered by its 2022–2023 annual report.[18]
  • 90 patient navigators across 41 Planned Parenthood affiliates helped more than 33,000 people obtain transportation, travel support, financial assistance or referrals for abortion care after Dobbs.[18]
  • MSI Reproductive Choices interviews an average of 13,000 clients annually about their reproductive-health access experiences.[17]
  • More than 50,000 people received Planned Parenthood support to cover abortion-care costs in the year covered by its 2022–2023 annual report.[18]

Distribution channels in the abortion industry

  • Approximately one-quarter of all U.S. abortions occurred through telehealth in 2024, up from 5% in mid-2022.[52]
  • Between July 2023 and September 2024, Aid Access mailed more than 118,000 abortion-drug packs, with 84% sent to states with abortion bans or mail-order restrictions.[53]
  • In 2024, 19% of U.S. abortions took place through telehealth as of May, according to a published review of online pharmacies and telehealth.[52]
  • 24% of clinician-provided U.S. abortions were delivered by online-only clinics in 2025.[10]

Key questions about the abortion industry

How large was the US clinician-provided abortion market in 2025?
The latest available U.S. market-volume measure was an estimated 1,126,000 clinician-provided abortions in 2025.
Did the overall US clinician abortion volume change from 2024 to 2025?
The 2026 release found 1,126,000 clinician-provided abortions in 2025, broadly unchanged from 1,124,000 in 2024.
Which companies lead the abortion industry?
Planned Parenthood Federation of America stands out for providing abortion and reproductive healthcare services because it is the largest provider of reproductive healthcare incl. abortion services in the US, while Hey Jane focuses on virtual medication-abortion care since it reports serving more than 140,000 patients through virtual abortion care.
What technology shift is most visible in US abortion care during 2025?
Online-only or virtual clinics accounted for 24% of clinician-provided abortions in 2025, and telehealth abortions in states with total bans increased from 74,000 in 2024 to 91,000 in 2025.
How is abortion access structured across US states and clinics at the end of 2025?
At the end of 2025, 13 states had total abortion bans with no brick-and-mortar clinics, while 753 brick-and-mortar clinics operated in 37 states and the District of Columbia.
How much interstate travel and telehealth share did abortion patients show in 2025?
Approximately 142,000 people crossed state lines for abortion care in 2025 (13% of all abortion patients), while telehealth reached 14,870 abortions per month by December 2025 under shield-law arrangements.
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