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====United States==== Medication abortions voluntarily reported by 33 US states<ref>excluding Alabama, California, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Wisconsin</ref> to the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) have increased as a percentage of total abortions every year since the approval of mifepristone: 1.0% in 2000, 2.9% in 2001, 5.2% in 2002, 7.9% in 2003, 9.3% in 2004, 9.9% in 2005, 10.6% in 2006, and 13.1% in 2007 (20.3% of those at less than 9 weeks gestation).<ref name="Pazol 2011">{{cite journal | vauthors = Berg C, Cook DA, Gamble SB, Hall LR, Hamdan S, Parker WY, Pazol K, Zane SB | collaboration = Division of Reproductive Health |date=25 February 2011 |title=Abortion surveillance β United States, 2007 |journal=MMWR Surveill Summ |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=1β44 |pmid=21346710 |url=<!-- Official URL --> https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/ss/ss6001.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406111142/http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/ss/ss6001.pdf |archive-date=6 April 2011 }}</ref> A [[Guttmacher Institute]] survey of abortion providers estimated that medication abortions accounted for 17% of all abortions and slightly over 25% of abortions before 9 weeks gestation in the United States in 2008 (94% of nonhospital medication abortions used mifepristone and misoprostol, 6% used [[methotrexate]] and misoprostol).<ref name="Jones 2011">{{cite journal | vauthors = Jones RK, Kooistra K |date=March 2011 |title=Abortion incidence and access to services in the United States, 2008 |journal=Perspect Sex Reprod Health |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=41β50 |doi=10.1363/4304111 |pmid=21388504 |s2cid=2045184 |url=http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/4304111.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927030139/http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/4304111.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2011 }}<br />{{cite news | vauthors = Stein R |date=11 January 2011 |title=Decline in U.S. abortion rate stalls |work=[[The Washington Post]] |page=A3 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011107331.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091118/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011107331.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref> Medication abortions accounted for 32% of first trimester abortions at [[Planned Parenthood]] clinics in the United States in 2008.<ref name="Fjerstad 2009">{{cite journal | vauthors = Fjerstad M, Trussell J, Sivin I, Lichtenberg ES, Cullins V | title = Rates of serious infection after changes in regimens for medical abortion | journal = The New England Journal of Medicine | volume = 361 | issue = 2 | pages = 145β51 | date = July 2009 | pmid = 19587339 | pmc = 3568698 | doi = 10.1056/NEJMoa0809146 }}<br />{{cite news |vauthors=Allday E |date=9 July 2009 |title=Change cuts infections linked to abortion pill |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |page=A1 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/07/09/MNJE18L6TR.DTL |access-date=29 June 2022 |archive-date=14 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414180754/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2009%2F07%2F09%2FMNJE18L6TR.DTL |url-status=live }}</ref> Considering abortions performed in non-hospital facilities, medication abortions accounted for 24% in 2011 and 31% in 2014. In 2014, facilities that provided a relatively small number of abortions (fewer than 400 procedures per year) were more likely to perform them with medication.<ref name="pmid28094905">{{Cite journal|vauthors=Jones RK, Jerman J|date=March 2017|title=Abortion Incidence and Service Availability In the United States 2014|url=https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2017/01/abortion-incidence-and-service-availability-united-states-2014|journal=Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health|volume=49-1|issue=1|pages=17β27|doi=10.1363/psrh.12015|pmid=28094905|pmc=5487028|access-date=16 October 2017|archive-date=17 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017044955/https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2017/01/abortion-incidence-and-service-availability-united-states-2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Medication abortions accounted for 39% of all US abortions in 2017,<ref>{{Cite web|date=26 April 2017|title=Medication Abortion|url=https://www.guttmacher.org/evidence-you-can-use/medication-abortion|access-date=22 September 2021|website=Guttmacher Institute|archive-date=21 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921114046/https://www.guttmacher.org/evidence-you-can-use/medication-abortion|url-status=live}}</ref> and 54% in 2020.<ref name=Guttmacher_2022-02 >{{cite web | url=https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2022/02/medication-abortion-now-accounts-more-half-all-us-abortions | title=Medication Abortion Now Accounts for More Than Half of All US Abortions | vauthors=Jones RK | work=[[Guttmacher Institute]] | date=24 February 2022 | access-date=10 May 2022 | archive-date=10 May 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510232112/https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2022/02/medication-abortion-now-accounts-more-half-all-us-abortions | url-status=live }}</ref>
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