Abortion in the United States

===Safety of abortions===
{{see also|Abortion#Safety}}

The risk of [[Maternal death|death]] from carrying a child to term in the U.S. is approximately 14 times greater than the risk of death from a legal abortion.<ref name="grimes-mortality-2012">{{ Cite journal | last1=Raymond | first1=E. G. | last2=Grimes | first2=D. A. | doi=10.1097/AOG.0b013e31823fe923 | title=The Comparative Safety of Legal Induced Abortion and Childbirth in the United States | journal=Obstetrics & Gynecology | volume=119 | issue=2, Part 1 | pages=215–219 | year=2012 | pmid=22270271 | s2cid=25534071 | quote=...The pregnancy-associated mortality rate among women who delivered live neonates was 8.8 deaths per 100,000 live births. The mortality rate related to induced abortion was 0.6 deaths per 100,000 abortions...The risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than that with abortion.}}</ref>  In 2012, the mortality rate from legal abortion was 0.6 abortion-related deaths per 100,000 abortions.<ref name="grimes-mortality-2012" />  The risk of abortion-related mortality increases with gestational age, but remains lower than that of childbirth through at least 21 weeks' gestation.<ref name="bartlett">{{cite journal |author=Bartlett LA |title=Risk factors for legal induced abortion-related mortality in the United States |journal=Obstetrics & Gynecology |volume=103 |issue=4 |pages=729–737 |date=April 2004 |pmid=15051566 |doi=10.1097/01.AOG.0000116260.81570.60 |author2=Berg CJ |author3=Shulman HB|author3-link= Holly Shulman |last4=Zane |first4=Suzanne B. |last5=Green |first5=Clarice A. |last6=Whitehead |first6=Sara |last7=Atrash |first7=Hani K.|s2cid=42597014 |display-authors=3 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="emedicine">{{cite web |publisher=[[eMedicine]] |title=Elective Abortion |date=May 27, 2010 |access-date=June 1, 2010 |first=Suzanne |last=Trupin |quote=At every gestational age, elective abortion is safer for the mother than carrying a pregnancy to term. |url=http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/252560-overview |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041214092044/http://www.emedicine.com/MED/topic3311.htm |archive-date=December 14, 2004 }}</ref><ref name="Genevra-2012">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-abortion-idUSTRE80M2BS20120123|title=Abortion safer than giving birth: study|last=Pittman|first=Genevra|date=January 23, 2012|work=Reuters|access-date=February 4, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206195457/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/23/us-abortion-idUSTRE80M2BS20120123|archive-date=February 6, 2012}}</ref>

For the period 2013 – 2019, the rate of mortality from legal abortion procedures in the US was 0.43 abortion-related deaths per 100,000 reported legal abortions, lower than the rates for previous 5-year periods.<ref name=CDC_2022_AS>{{Cite journal |last=Kortsmit |first=Katherine |date=2022 |title=Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2020 |url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/ss/ss7110a1.htm |journal=MMWR. Surveillance Summaries |language=en-us |volume=71 |issue=10 |pages=1–27 |doi=10.15585/mmwr.ss7110a1 |issn=1546-0738 |pmc=9707346 |pmid=36417304}}</ref> In 2019, there were four identified deaths related to abortion in the US, out of 625,000 abortions.<ref name=CDC_2022_AS />