Abortions, by State

This chart shows data for 1992. This is the most recent data available at this writing (early 1997).

In this chart:

Abortions: total number of legal abortions
Per births: number of abortions for every 1000 live births
Per women: number of abortions for every 1000 women between the ages of 15 and 44

State	Abortions	Per births	Per women
Alabama	13,358	215	14
Alaska	1,783	152	12
Arizona	14,353	209	17
Arkansas	5,675	163	11
California	338,700	564	47
Colorado	10,607	195	13
Connecticut	17,762	373	24
Delaware	5,601	526	34
Dist. of Columbia	17,698	Note 1	Note 2
Florida	69,285	362	25
Georgia	38,052	343	23
Hawaii	5,954	300	23
Idaho	1,378	80	6
Illinois	56,552	295	21
Indiana	12,983	154	10
Iowa	6,759	176	11
Kansas	10,385	274	19
Kentucky	8,696	162	10
Louisiana	12,423	176	12
Maine	3,226	201	11
Maryland	19,860	255	17
Massachusetts	34,527	396	24
Michigan	34,496	242	16
Minnesota	15,546	237	15
Mississippi	7,555	177	12
Missouri	13,390	176	11
Montana	2,869	250	16
Nebraska	5,637	242	16
Nevada	8,022	357	26
New Hampshire	3,129	196	12
New Jersey	38,168	318	21
New Mexico	5,624	202	16
New York	164,274	582	39
--City	114,700	909
--State	49,574	318
North Carolina	35,253	339	22
North Dakota	1,493	169	11
Ohio	36,019	222	14
Oklahoma	9,881	208	14
Oregon	12,685	302	19
Pennsylvania	49,042	300	18
Rhode Island	6,667	460	29
South Carolina	11,008	196	13
South Dakota	1,038	94	7
Tennessee	18,029	245	15
Texas	91,113	284	22
Utah	3,941	106	9
Vermont	2,778	359	20
Virginia	29,641	306	19
Washington	27,573	347	23
West Virginia	2,812	127	7
Wisconsin	15,549	220	14
Wyoming	296	44	3
Total	1,359,145	335	23

Note 1: The CDC does not give the exact number, but simply states that in DC there are more abortions than live births.

Note2: The CDC does not give the exact number, but states that in DC there are more than 100 abortions per 1000 women aged 15 to 44.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Surveillance Summaries, May 3, 1996. MMWR 1996;45 (No. SS-3), page 6.

Posted 16 Sep 2000.