Each year in the United States, there are approximately 6.7 million pregnancies. Of these, roughly half are unintended. More than a third of all unintended pregnancies end in abortion. As a result, approximately 1 million women in the United States have an abortion each year.

Unmarried women are five times as likely as married women to terminate an unintended pregnancy with an abortion. Women living below the poverty line are five times more likely than higher-income women to have an unintended pregnancy, and poor women have 40 percent of all abortions.

Abortion is a sensitive topic that engages deeply-felt moral and religious beliefs. Many Americans abhor abortion. Some of them work actively to reduce the number of abortions by advocating greater sex education and easier access to birth control. Others take a more draconian approach. Responding to the latter approach, a number of states, most notably Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah, have enacted harsh restrictions intended to drive abortion providers out of existence.

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