Medication abortions push number of procedures performed in US up since Roe’s repeal, study shows

Abortion pill provision rates were also more than three times higher in states that ban abortion compared with those that do not

An abortion provider shipped almost 120,000 packs of abortion pills to US residents between July 2023 and August 2024 - nearly 100,000 of whom lived in states that outlaw the procedure or have laws on the books that ban the mailing of abortion pills, according to a new study published in the prestigious medical journal Jama on Monday.

To the shock of experts, the number of abortions performed in the US has risen in the three years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and paved the way for more than a dozen states to ban virtually all abortions. Much of that rise has been driven by the use of abortion pills, or medication abortion, and providers' ability to supply the pills through telehealth.