STAGGERING: Abortion killed 10M more humans in 2025 than all other causes

While society continues to portray abortion as a woman's "choice" and "right," every abortion kills at least one human being — and humans killed by abortion outnumbered deaths by all other causes worldwide in 2025 by more than 10 million.

In the United States alone, the estimated number of abortions committed since the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling in 1973 are nearing a staggering 65 million (likely more, since not all abortions are included in this total).

Roe fell nearly 50 years after it began, on June 24, 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (JWHO) case that Roe was “egregiously wrong from the start.”

Key Takeaways:

• While 63 million people died globally in 2025, a staggering 73 million abortions took place — claiming at least 10 million more human lives.

• In the U.S. alone, an estimated 65 million preborn babies have been killed since 1973's Roe v. Wade to today.

• Nearly 3,000 preborn babies are killed by abortion every day in the U.S., but it is likely much higher due to uncounted chemical abortions, even in states with preborn protections.

• Guttmacher estimates indicate that in 2024 there were 2,886 abortions per day; 20,259 per week; and nearly 88,000 per month.

• Guttmacher also estimated that 648,500 abortion pills were sold in the U.S. in 2023 alone — an average of 54,042 monthly; 1,777 daily; 74 hourly; and one every 49 seconds. 

Abortions Worldwide v. Global Deaths

• 132 million babies were born in 2025, while 63 million people died that same year. (Our World in Data)

• "Around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year. Six out of 10 (61%) of all unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 (29%) of all pregnancies, end in induced abortion" (emphases added; World Health Organization, December 2025)

This means that human beings killed by abortion worldwide outnumbered deaths by all other causes — by at least 10 million.

By The Numbers:

• Guttmacher Institute, 1973-2024: Over 65 million estimated abortions in the U.S.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1973-2022: 48,997,614 abortions in the U.S.

The anticipated CDC 2023 report has been temporarily paused and is expected to be published the spring of 2026. This data may shed light on abortion numbers for the first full year after the Dobbs Supreme Court decision. The CDC's latest published report was for 2022 data, when Dobbs was released midway through that year.

Guttmacher 2024: Estimates indicate that 1,053,470 abortions were committed in 2024 (2,886 per day, 20,259 per week, and nearly 88,000 per month). Of that number, 76,310 abortions were committed via telehealth to states with total bans, according to estimates from the Society of Family Planning (SFP).

Guttmacher 2025: In September 2025, Guttmacher released preliminary data indicating an estimated 518,940 abortions for the first half of 2025. However, to date, abortion estimates for the first nine months of 2025 are at 772,340, and likely many more abortion deaths weren't counted.

Guttmacher Institute researchers recently acknowledged that telehealth abortion (with the ability to mail abortion pills to abortion seekers) has contributed to increased numbers since the end of Roe v. Wade.

Nearly 3,000 preborn babies are killed by abortion every day in America, but that estimated death toll is likely far greater, given the large numbers of uncounted chemical abortions happening across the country, even in states with laws protecting preborn children from abortion.

Who publishes abortion data?

Traditionally, abortion data has been compiled by two organizations: The Guttmacher Institute (a former Planned Parenthood “special affiliate,”) and the CDC.

Guttmacher began publishing abortion data in 1973 and previously utilized responses to surveys it sent to abortion providers for its abortion reports. However, following the Dobbs decision in 2022, Guttmacher began estimating abortion data on a monthly basis, and its numbers are less reliable than in the past and are subject to change, in part because the abortion organization "does not collect data on self-managed abortions" — which it defines as "abortions that are not provided by a US clinician."

In addition, Guttmacher's "Monthly Abortion Provision Study includes medication abortions that are prescribed via telemedicine by a doctor licensed in the United States and mailed to a patient in a state where abortion is legal. However, estimates do not currently include medication abortions provided under the protection of shield laws to a patient in a state where abortion is completely banned," Guttmacher wrote (emphasis added).

In 1969, the CDC began an abortion surveillance branch to document the number and characteristics of legally obtained abortions. To date, the CDC relies solely on data voluntarily reported from the states which individually set their own standards for abortion reporting.

As Live Action News previously reported:

Currently, not all states report abortion statistics, and therefore, there are large disparities in abortion data state by state. Some require no reporting whatsoever, and others collect a variety of data on age, race, gender, gestation, complications, and other categories. As such, Guttmacher’s overall numbers tend to be more comprehensive.

Since Dobbs, two agencies have begun to publish estimated abortion data: the Guttmacher Institute and the Society of Family Planning (SFP), the latter of which was founded in 2005 thanks to a generous contribution from the Packard Foundation, heavily funded by the Buffett Foundation.

Mail-Order Abortion Pill Increasing Overall Abortions in U.S.

In 2017, the United States saw the end of a long-term decline in abortions, with numbers beginning to tick upward once again each year. By 2020, abortions had increased nearly 8% from 2017. In February of 2025, Guttmacher’s estimated abortion data analysis revealed a whopping 648,500 abortion pills sold in 2023 alone, which translates to an abortion pill count of 54,042 monthly, 1,777 daily, 74 hourly, and one every 49 seconds in 2023. 

The numbers are likely much higher, as Guttmacher's numbers are an "estimation" and do not “currently include medication abortions provided under the protection of shield laws to a patient in a state where abortion is completely banned," according to the group.

As Live Action News previously noted, "In May of 2024, the Guttmacher Institute updated its total abortion estimate for 2023 (which did not include all chemical abortions sold). This time, the abortion increase over three years was in the double digits, revealing a spike of 11.5% from 2020." In October of 2025, Guttmacher updated its published numbers to 1,037,950 (2023) and 1,053,470 (2024), revealing an increase of over 13% (13.25%) from the abortion totals it published in 2020. 

A study from September 2025 quoted authors affiliated with the Guttmacher Institute asserting that telehealth abortion "has contributed to the overall increase in abortions in the US." Based on a conservative estimate (63% of all abortions being done by pill), it is projected that more than 664,000 abortion pills were utilized in 2024.

The numbers could be substantially higher; recent data revealed that 80% of the recorded abortions in Montana (2023) were carried out by the abortion pill.

Data from the pro-abortion #WeCount project (an initiative of the Society of Family Planning) further substantiates this increase.

• A report published in 2025 by #WeCount documented a 155% rise in all abortions provided via telehealth, increasing from 22,430 in the second quarter of 2023 to 57,150 in the second quarter of 2024.

• A subsequent #WeCount report claimed that "nearly half of the telehealth abortions that took place in 2024 were administered by physicians in states with shield laws," which are designed to offer legal protection to providers who mail abortion drugs into states with more restrictive regulations.

The Society of Family Planning receives funding from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Buffett Foundation, both of which hold financial investments in abortion pill manufacturer Danco Laboratories. 

The most recently published FDA data reveals that between the abortion pill's approval in 2000 and December 31, 2024, approximately 7.5 million women in the U.S. alone have used the drug to end the lives of their preborn babies.

Planned Parenthood's Impact

Data from Planned Parenthood’s 2023-24 annual report revealed: 

• In just one year, Planned Parenthood committed over 402K abortions.

• Since 2000, Planned Parenthood has doubled its annual number of abortions, ending the lives of over 7.5M preborn babies in 25 years. 

• Planned Parenthood received nearly $800M in taxpayer funding as of the year ending June 30, 2024, the highest ever recorded. Since 2000, Planned Parenthood has raked in nearly $11.4B from taxpayers while accumulating nearly $2.2B in excess revenue.

The 2025 Reconciliation Act removed (for one year) Medicaid dollars from entities that provide abortion (as of October 1, 2025) and which received more than $800,000 in Medicaid expenditures during a previous fiscal year. The “Big, Beautiful Bill” was signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025 and commenced on July 7, 2025, though it was stalled in the courts multiple times.

The Bottom Line:

The good news is that pro-life work is thwarting efforts to normalize abortion in every corner of America. Today, pro-life pregnancy help centers outnumber brick-and-mortar abortion facilities 4:1.

In 2025 alone, 54 abortion facilities and over 60 Planned Parenthood centers closed, and more continue to close in 2026.

Consistent prayer, activism, and sidewalk advocacy outside abortion facilities will likely continue to play a role in saving lives, as will  Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn measures, medical malpractice lawsuits, and ongoing campaigns to educate the public on the horrors of abortion.