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Abortions are up in post-Roe America — nationally and in Utah. New data shows the procedure’s monthly tally rose each year after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.
The Society of Family Planning’s latest #WeCount report estimates an average of 99,000 abortions per month in the first half of 2025. The monthly average has risen each year since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and pushed abortion policy to the states.
2022: about 80,000 per month.
2023: about 88,000 per month
2024: around 95,000 per month
In the first six months of 2025, the total topped 500,000 nationwide.
Utah mirrors the national trend. In the first half of 2025, Utah averaged 490 abortions per month.
2024: 448 per month
2023: about 373 per month
2022: about 324 per month
Most abortions in Utah happen in person, but telehealth medication abortions added to the total.
In Utah, abortion is legal up to 18 weeks of pregnancy. A 2020 “trigger law” that would ban nearly all abortions — with limited exceptions for rape, incest, serious threats to the patient’s health, or certain fatal fetal diagnoses — briefly took effect after Dobbs but has been on hold during litigation brought by the ACLU of Utah and Planned Parenthood Association of Utah.
In August 2024, the Utah Supreme Court kept the injunction in place, citing serious questions about whether the near-total ban violates the Utah Constitution. The case’s first procedural hearing is scheduled for April 2026.
#WeCount launched in 2022, just before Dobbs, to estimate monthly abortions by state. Its counts include in‑person procedures and telehealth medication abortions.