Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, the total number of abortions continued to increase in 2024, totaling 1.14 million, a recent report found. The Dobbs decision on June 24, 2022, upheld Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks. Since then, states have enacted a range of laws from near-total abortion bans to shield laws protecting patients from other states who travel to get the procedure. As of this year, 12 states have full bans on abortion.
