Abortion Reporting: Wyoming (2024)

Wyoming’s 2024 abortion report was published online by the Wyoming Department of Health in June 2025. The report shows that abortions increased from the previous year. The data published by the state does not include the total number of abortions obtained by Wyoming residents out of state or the number of self-managed abortions performed by women outside of the healthcare system. It is also unlikely that the report contains the total number of mail-order abortion drugs obtained by Wyoming residents prescribed by licensed abortion providers in other states. In a separate section, Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) will describe data provided by the Guttmacher Institute’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study that details the number of Wyoming women who obtained abortions in other states. Guttmacher’s abortion estimates include the number of abortions obtained at brick-and-mortar facilities and those provided via telehealth and virtual providers in the United States.

Wyoming defines abortion as “the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug or any other substance, device or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman, including the elimination of one (1) or more unborn babies in a multifetal pregnancy, with knowledge that the termination by those means will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of the unborn baby” (§35-6-122). According to the state, abortion doesn’t include procedures performed with the intention to save the life or preserve the health of the unborn baby, remove a dead unborn baby caused by a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, or treat maternal diseases.

In Wyoming, abortion is widely available throughout pregnancy because of the state’s ineffective gestational limit at viability. While the language of the law limits abortion after viability, the law contains a broad health (life and health of the mother) exception that doesn’t differentiate between physical and mental health which, in turn, allows abortion throughout pregnancy for nearly any reason (Johnson et al. v. State of Wyoming et al., 2023).

Statistics and Changes in Wyoming Abortions, 2023-2024

This report does not include information on Planned Parenthood’s Wyoming abortion market share, but Planned Parenthood operates no abortion centers in Wyoming.

Abortion Totals and Trends

2024 marked the fourth full year of reporting since Wyoming’s current abortion reporting law went into effect. In 2024, there were 625 abortions reported, an increase of 9% from 2023. Drug-induced abortions decreased by 10% and composed 69% of the 2024 total, as opposed to 83% of the total in 2023 (Fig. 1). CLI estimates that Wyoming’s 2024 abortion rate was 5.7 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age.¹ As of July 2025, nine states had released abortion statistics for 2024, with four showing that abortions had increased.

State Report Summary

In 2024, the state did not report the number of abortions by women’s residency status as it had before 2023. Forty-one percent of the abortions were performed on women ages 24 and younger, 44% on women ages 25 to 34, and 14% on women ages 35 and older.

Forty-one percent were obtained by women with no previous live births, compared to 25% by women with one prior live birth and 33% by women with two or more previous births. Fifty-eight percent were performed on women who had never had an abortion before. Twenty-eight percent were performed on women with one previous abortion, and 14% on women with two or more previous abortions. The number of women who obtained abortions in 2024 but had no previous abortions significantly decreased while the number of women who were getting a repeat abortion increased significantly from 2023 to 2024.

Eighty-eight percent of the abortions reported in Wyoming occurred at 10 weeks of gestation or earlier, with 52% reported at six weeks or earlier and 37% performed between seven and 10 weeks. Twelve percent of the abortions (72 abortions) were performed at 11 weeks or later, an increase from 30 in 2023. Three cases of hemorrhage were reported while 622 abortions were reported to have no associated complications.

Sixty-nine percent of the abortions occurring in Wyoming in 2024 were drug-induced while 31% were performed via suction curettage procedures, compared to 2023 when 16% of the state’s reported abortions were performed via the suction curettage method. There was one dilation and evacuation abortion reported in 2024. The rise in surgical abortions and subsequent decrease in drug-induced abortions from 2022 to 2024 could partially be because a new abortion center opened in the state in 2023, and it performs both drug-induced abortions and surgical abortions. Prior to the opening of that center, the state’s sole abortion center only performed drug-induced abortions.

In previous years, Wyoming’s annual report differentiated between the number of abortions performed at a brick-and-mortar establishment and those performed via telehealth. However, the 2022, 2023, and 2024 annual reports do not contain this information.

Breakdown of Abortion Providers²

Guttmacher Data³

In 2024, Guttmacher estimated that 760 abortions occurred in Wyoming, while the state reported 625. Guttmacher also estimated that of the 760 abortions performed in the state, 670 were obtained by Wyoming residents and 90 were obtained by women of unknown residency or nonresidents. Additionally, 290 Wyoming women traveled out of state to obtain an abortion in Colorado.⁴

State Ranking

In CLI’s updated 2024 evaluation of abortion reporting across the country, Wyoming’s abortion reporting was ranked as tied for 27^th best out of 52 reporting areas. Wyoming could improve its abortion reports by publishing more of the information it collects, including the demographics of women obtaining abortions in the state. Wyoming could also require that any abortion complications be reported by the healthcare providers who treat them, as some other states do. Lastly, the state could resume reporting the number of abortions performed by a woman’s state of residence as well as the number of abortions performed at brick-and-mortar centers versus the number performed via telemedicine.

1. National rates were calculated by the Guttmacher Institute. Wyoming rates were calculated by CLI using the following formula: (total number of abortions performed in Wyoming ÷ number of resident women ages 15-44 [based on most recent population estimates]) x 1,000. Rates may differ slightly from previous CLI articles due to revised population estimates. Population estimates were obtained from the CDC WONDER database. Estimates for 2005-2009 are intercensal estimates of the July 1 resident population. Estimates for 2010-2019 are Vintage 2020 postcensal estimates of the July 1 resident population. Estimates for 2020-2024 are Vintage 2023 postcensal estimates of the July 1 resident population. Estimates were produced by the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics. Rates for 2024 were calculated using the Vintage 2023 postcensal estimates because 2024 population estimates have not yet been released by the CDC.
2. Center totals do not include hospitals or physician offices not listed in databases that compile abortion provider locations in different states, but do include Planned Parenthood locations, independent abortion centers, and hospitals/doctor’s offices included in databases like Abortion Finder and Ineedana. This information is up to date as of July 1, 2025.
3. The Guttmacher Institute notes that their monthly abortion totals by states are estimates and that each state’s estimate is within a range of uncertainty. Guttmacher also notes that their estimates do not reflect self-managed abortions or those obtained by women in states with total abortion bans under shield laws. This information is updated as of July 1, 2025.
4. Guttmacher’s travel and residence data can be found here (State_Abortion_Travel_2024.csv).

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