Rate of abortion among teenage girls in the U.S. 2022, by age

In 2022, the rate of abortion among adolescent women aged 19 years in the United States was around 12.4 per 1,000 population. Abortion in the United States remains a controversial and divisive subject. In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the historic court ruling that gave women the right to abortion. Now states are allowed to completely ban the procedure if they so choose. However, despite the ruling and subsequent abortion bans in many states, polls show the majority of U.S. adults still favor the legalization of abortion. How many abortions are there in the U.S. per year?In 2022, there were around 613,000 legal abortions in the United States. This was one of the lowest numbers recorded since the Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973. The rate of abortions per 100 live births in 2022 was 19.9, a significant decrease from a rate of 30.6 reported in 1997. The states with the highest rates of abortion in 2022 were New Mexico, Illinois, and Kansas, while Missouri and South Dakota had the lowest rates. Abortion among adolescentsThe rate of abortion among adolescent women in the United States aged 15 to 19 years has also decreased over the past decade. In 2013, there were around 8.2 abortions among adolescent women per 1,000 population. By the year 2022, this figure had dropped to 5.4 per 1,000 population. The majority of abortions among adolescents occur at week nine or less of gestation. The birth control pill is one of the safest and most effective ways to prevent unwanted pregnancy, but only around 23 percent of female high school students who were sexually active were using the pill in 2021.

于2022年，美国19岁青少年女性的堕胎率约为每千人12.4例。在美国，堕胎一直是一个充满争议和分歧的话题。2022年，最高法院推翻了具有历史意义的罗伊诉韦德案（Roe v. Wade），该案赋予女性堕胎的权利。如今，各州有权根据自己的意愿完全禁止这一程序。然而，尽管存在该裁决以及许多州的堕胎禁令，民意调查显示，美国大多数成年人仍然支持堕胎合法化。美国每年有多少堕胎案例？2022年，美国约有61.3万例合法堕胎。这是自1973年罗伊诉韦德裁决以来记录的最低数字之一。2022年每百名活产婴儿的堕胎率为19.9，较1997年报告的30.6的比率有显著下降。2022年，新墨西哥州、伊利诺伊州和堪萨斯州的堕胎率最高，而密苏里州和南达科他州的堕胎率最低。青少年堕胎：过去十年中，美国15至19岁青少年女性的堕胎率也有所下降。2013年，每千人中有约8.2例青少年女性堕胎。到2022年，这一数字下降到每千人5.4例。大多数青少年堕胎发生在妊娠九周或更早。避孕药是预防意外怀孕最安全、最有效的方法之一，但在2021年，只有大约23%的活跃性女性高中生正在使用避孕药。