Medical abortions

The abortion pill came out in 2000, a year in which there were 1.3 million abortions. By 2023 that number had decreased to 900,000 even though the population had increased by 50 million. During that time the number of medical abortions (using the pill) increased to 63% and many of these are not recorded so it is assumed that the number of abortions is not decreasing only the reporting. Many medicated abortions go unreported, especially self-managed abortions conducted outside of the formal healthcare system. This is a well-documented issue that affects the accuracy of abortion statistics in the United States and other parts of the world. Some states offer legal access to these pills without a prescription from a doctor and as those spread to other states it will become more difficult to count abortions because many will occur in the privacy of a woman’s home with no doctor involved. Many suggest, that in the future it will be a common practice for women to have amniotic fluid tested early on and medical abortions to be used to discard any fetus with potential problems.