In 1973 in Wade vs. Roe when abortion was legalized nationwide.
30 years have passed. 

What is the total number of abortions according to each state?
Nationwide total is near 40 million.

John P.

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 13 Feb 2003 07:29 PST

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Hi pendleton!

I was only able to get data for the 90s and even that is incomplete.
Here is what I've found. The data came from the CDC.

1992
http://www.prolifeinfo.org/statestats.html

1996
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss4804a1.htm

1997
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss4911a1.htm

1998
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5103a1.htm

Here are total abortion figures from 1973 through 2002 according to
AGI and CDC data.
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html

Thanks.

Thank you for the stats for several years and the graph and total to
date.

What  I really need is a listing of total abortions for those 30 years
for each state in the USA-- one by one.

Maybe I am asking for something that does not exist or is too hard to
find.

Here is some information through 1997 with estimates for 98-2002.  The
first column is from Alan Guttmacher Institute Statistics and the
second is from the Center for Disease Control:

1973	744,600	        615, 831
1974	898,600	        763,476
1975	1,034,200	854,853
1976	1,179,300	988,267
1977	1,316,700	1,079,430
1978	1,409,600	1,157,776
1979	1,497,700	1,251,921
1980	1,553,900	1,297,606
1981	1,577,300	1,300,760
1982	1,573,900	1,303,980
1983	1,575,000	1,268,987
1984	1,577,200	1,333,521
1985	1,588,600	1,328,570
1986	1,574,000	1,328,112
1987	1,559,100	1,353,671
1988	1,590,800	1,371,285
1989	1,566,900	1,396,658
1990	1,608,600	1,429,577
1991	1,556,500	1,388,937
1992	1,528,900	1,359,145
1993	1,500,000	1,330,414
1994	1,431,000	1,267,415
1995	1,363,690	1,210,883
1996	1,365,730	1,221,585
1997	1,328,000	1,186,039
1998	* 1,328,000	 *  884,273
1999	* 1,328,000	 *  861,789
2000	* 1,313,300	  § 861,789
2001 	* 1,313,300	  § 861,789
2002 	* 1,313,300	  § 861,789

National Right to Life 
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html

This is one of those questions that ought to be easy, but apparently
isn't.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute has 30-year abortion analyses for each
state. Their graphs show the number of abortion per year for each
state. However, they don't provide state totals.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/state_ab_pt.html

For 1973-1988 data, the Guttmacher Institute cites its own "Abortion
Factbook" which was published in 1992. You might consider seeking out
this book at your nearest major university library. Here's the Library
of Congress entry for the book:
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=local&CMD=010a+92226733&CNT=10+records+per+page

Good luck.

You can find some state-by-state breakdowns for some years at
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3026398.html