In 2025, zero abortions were reported to the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH). Relatedly, zero complications were reported. Immediately after Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, the state prohibited abortion from conception except in cases where a continued pregnancy would threaten the life of the mother.
In Arkansas, abortion is defined as:
The act of using, prescribing, administering, procuring, or selling of any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the purpose to terminate the pregnancy of a woman, with knowledge that the termination by any of those means will with reasonable likelihood cause the death of an unborn child… (§5-161-2023)
The data published by Arkansas does not include the total number of abortions obtained by Arkansas residents out of state or the number of self-managed abortions performed by women outside of the healthcare system. The report also does not contain the total number of mail-order abortion drugs obtained by Arkansas residents prescribed by licensed abortionists in other states with shield laws. Below, Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) will describe data provided by the Guttmacher Institute’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study (MAPS) that details the total number of Arkansas women who obtained abortion drugs via telehealth/the mail from abortionists licensed in other states. In the past, the MAPS published estimates on the annual number of the state’s residents who traveled out of state to obtain an abortion. However, the 2025 estimates on out-of-state travel totals have not been released. CLI will also describe data from the Society of Family Planning’s (SFP) #WeCount project that details the number of abortion drugs mailed to Arkansas women.
Guttmacher Data1
In 2025, Guttmacher estimated that 3,860 abortion drug regimens were mailed to Arkansas women by abortionists in states that shield such illegal provision. An unknown number of Arkansas women traveled to other states to obtain an abortion, but as mentioned above, Guttmacher has not released 2025 travel totals or the states to which women traveled. SFP’s #WeCount project estimated that 4,020 abortion drug regimens were mailed to Arkansas women by abortionists in shield law states.2
- 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. This information was updated as of July 17, 2026. Guttmacher’s data can be found in the CSV folder here (Summary_Table_Annual_2023_2024_2025).
- #WeCount’s data can be found hereby downloading the “Report data tables [.xlsx]” document. The #WeCount report specifies that the numbers included in their tables for abortions performed under shield laws only represent the number of women to whom abortion drugs were sent, not the number of drug-induced abortions that resulted from the mailed drugs. However, because #WeCount’s data is the only source of data that delineates the number of abortions by mode of provision (in-person, telehealth/mail order, and/or abortion drugs obtained under shield laws), their data is the best available. This information was updated as of July 17, 2026.
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