Many of the details about individuals who obtain abortions comes from CDC knowledge. In 2022, the latest yr CDC knowledge can be found, girls throughout a variety of age teams, socioeconomic standing, and racial and ethnic backgrounds obtained abortions, however the majority had been obtained by girls who had been of their twenties, low-income, and girls of colour. 

• Ladies of their twenties accounted for greater than half (57%) of abortions. Almost one-third (31%) had been amongst girls of their thirties and a small share had been amongst girls of their 40s (4%) and youths (9%).  
• Info on the race and ethnicity of people that acquire abortions is especially restricted, however based mostly on obtainable knowledge, greater than half of abortions had been amongst girls of colour in 2022. Black girls comprised 40% of abortion recipients, 32% had been offered to White girls, 21% to Hispanic girls, and seven% had been amongst girls of different races/ethnicities. Moreover, White, Black, and American Indian and Alaska Native girls are disproportionately represented amongst girls ages 18-49 in states with legal guidelines banning or proscribing the supply of abortion in comparison with states that present broader entry to abortion. Many ladies who sought abortions have youngsters. Roughly six in 10 (59%) abortion sufferers in 2022 had at the very least one earlier delivery.

The overwhelming majority (93%) of abortions happen through the first trimester of being pregnant based on knowledge obtainable from earlier than the Dobbs resolution.  

Earlier than the 2022 ruling in Dobbs, there was a federal constitutional proper to abortion earlier than the being pregnant is taken into account to be viable, that’s, can survive outdoors of a pregnant individual’s uterus. Viability is usually thought-about round 24 weeks of being pregnant. Most abortions, although, happen nicely earlier than the purpose of fetal viability. When folks have abortions later in being pregnant, it is actually because the fetus shouldn’t be viable and the being pregnant could endanger the pregnant individual’s life. 

Information from 2022 discovered that 4 in ten (40%) abortions occurred by six weeks of gestation, one other 4 in ten (39%) occurred between seven and 9 weeks, and 14% at 10-13 weeks. Simply 7% of abortions occurred after the primary trimester (Determine 5).