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Abortion and Planned Parenthood Statistics
by ALL
Released October 5, 2005
Abortions in the United States
Total number of abortions in the U.S. since 1973: 48 million +
Abortions per year: 1,200,000
Abortions per day: 3,288
Abortions per hour: 137
9 abortions every 4 minutes
1 abortion every 26 seconds
Surgical abortions in the United States (1965-2005)
Since the first states decriminalized abortion in 1967, it is estimated that more than 46,000,000 reported surgical abortions in the U.S. An estimated 1,878,990 were committed before Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that lifted all restrictions. An average of 1,300,000 babies are killed annually through surgical abortion.
Chemical abortions in the United States (1965-2005)
Because many contraceptive measures are abortifacients (drugs that induce or cause abortions), it is important not to overlook the number of children killed by chemical abortions. Since 1965, an average of 11 million women have used abortifacient methods of birth control in the United States at any given time. Unsing formulas based on the way the birth control pill works, pharmacy experts project that about 14 million chemical abortions occur in the United States each year, giving a projected total of well in excess of 560 million chemical abortions between 1965 and 2005.
Planned Parenthood’s income break-down for 2006-2007 fiscal year
PP clinic income: $356.9 million
PP Government grants and contracts: $336.7 million
Total profit: $114.8 million
Total income: $1.02 billion
2006 Planned Parenthood service numbers
Number of abortions (medical and surgical): 289,750
Total number of abortions per week: 5,572
Adoption referrals: 2,410
Ratio of adoption referrals to abortions: 1 per 120
2007 Planned Parenthood Annual Survey
Total number of PP clinics: 855
Total number of non-express clinics: 814
Express clinics: 41
Total number of PP clinics that perform surgical and/or medical abortions: 287
Total number of affiliates: 108
Number of clinics that started doing abortions in 2007: 55
Other random information
Highest number of PP non-express clinics: 938 in 1995
Total number of PP clinics in 2006: 859
Number of states that do NOT give money to PP: 6 according to 2006 ALL study
Percentages of U.S. Females, Age 15-44, Broken Down by Race (According to 2000 U.S. Census)
Whites: 64.7%
Blacks: 12.3%
Hispanic or Latino: 12.4%
Other: 10.6%
Percentages of U.S. Women Who Obtained Abortions, Broken Down by Race (According to Center of Disease Control, 2004)
Whites: 54.1%
Blacks: 38.2%
Other: 7.7%
Updated February 5, 2008
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