Report: Kansas abortions hit record high with 47% increase in minors

According to the latest vital statistics report from Kansas, which was made available on Wednesday, abortions reached a record high in the state in 2024, with a notable increase among minor girls.

Key Takeaways:

• Kansas' vital statistics report for 2024 was released on the last day of 2025, showing the highest number of abortions in the state since 1973.

• There were 19,811 abortions in Kansas in 2024.

• Among minors, abortions in the state increased by 47%.

• 76% of the abortions were committed on women from other states.

• In 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court found that abortion is a right in the state constitution.

The Details:

The report revealed that there were 19,811 abortions reported in Kansas in 2024, up from 19,467 in 2023, and the most in the state since 1973, when there were 12,612 carried out.

Shockingly, the report noted a 47% increase in abortions among minors. There were 552 abortions committed on girls under age 18, up from 376 in 2023. One hundred of those girls were from Texas, 96 were from Missouri, and 76 were from Oklahoma.

Overall, 76% of all of the abortions in Kansas in 2024 were committed on women who traveled from another state. There were 15,048 total abortions on women from Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Nebraska.

While the number of abortions rose by two percent from 2023, they were lower than the number projected by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. In the spring, Guttmacher estimated there were 22,720 abortions in Kansas in 2024.

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According to the Sunflower State Journal, the vital statistics report is usually released by early summer, but the 2023 report was kept quiet until December 13, 2023, and the 2024 report was held until December 31.

In a statement, Kansas for Life said, "By waiting until the final hours of the year to release Kansas' 2024 abortion statistics, Gov. Laura Kelly has made it clear she hoped these numbers would go unnoticed."

"Kansans should ask why such critical public health data was withheld for so long, especially the shocking increase in abortions performed on minor girls."

Abortion is legal in Kansas through 22 weeks with exceptions after that for the life of the mother. The state Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that the state constitution protects abortion as a right; however, there is a mandatory parental consent law for minors.

However, in 2023, an undercover investigation found that Planned Parenthood in Kansas City, Missouri had been helping teens and potentially predators get young girls across state lines, including into Kansas, to undergo secret abortions.

The Bottom Line:

The abortion numbers out of Kansas indicate that the fall of Roe v. Wade and the enactment of state pro-life laws have done little to prevent abortions in the U.S., especially as companies and organizations bend over backwards to shuffle women, and apparently minors, across state lines to abort their babies.