Abortion Reporting: Florida (2024)

Florida publishes some of its abortion reporting tables on the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration (ACHA) website. The full report was provided to the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) in August 2025, following a request made in February 2025. The data provided to CLI showed that brick-and-mortar abortions reported in the state decreased significantly from 2023 to 2024.

The data published by the state does not include the number of abortions obtained by Florida residents out of state or the number of self-managed abortions performed by women outside of the healthcare system. It is also highly unlikely that the report contains the total number of mail-order abortion drugs obtained by Florida residents prescribed by licensed abortion providers in Florida or from other states.

In a separate section, CLI will describe data provided by the Guttmacher Institute’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study that details the number of abortions obtained by Florida women in other states as well as the number of women who traveled to Florida to obtain abortions in 2024. Guttmacher’s abortion estimates include the number of abortions obtained at brick-and-mortar facilities and those provided via telehealth and virtual providers in and outside of Florida. On May 1, 2024, when the state’s six-week abortion law went into effect, an explicit prohibition on mail-order abortions in Florida also went into effect. This means that any mail-order abortions that occurred prior to that date were captured by Guttmacher as mail-order abortions and any mail-order abortions after that date were captured as mail-order abortions provided via shield laws involving prescribers in other states.

Florida’s statute code defines abortion as “the termination of human pregnancy with an intention other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus.”

Before May 1, 2024, abortion was legal through 15 weeks of gestation and after in cases where a continued pregnancy threatened the mother’s life or physical health and/or the unborn child had a serious or fatal fetal anomaly and had not yet reached viability. On May 1, 2024, the state’s six-week law, originally signed into law in 2023, went into effect and prohibited abortions after six weeks of gestation. Exceptions to the state’s six-week law include:

• Cases where a continued pregnancy threatened the mother’s life or physical health and/or;
• In cases where the pregnancy has not progressed to the third trimester and it is determined by two physicians that the unborn child has a fatal fetal anomaly and/or;
•  The pregnancy is a result of rape, incest, or human trafficking and the gestational age is not more than 15 weeks of gestation.

Statistics and Changes in Florida Abortions, 2023-2024

The report does not include information on Planned Parenthood’s Florida abortion market share.

Abortions Totals and Trends

In 2024, 64,854 abortions were reported in 2024, a decrease of 23% from the previous year. Of the 64,854 abortions performed in 2024, 39,699 were drug-induced, amounting to 61% of the total and down 15% from 2023 (Fig. 1). CLI estimates that Florida’s 2023 abortion rate was 15.8 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, down 23% from 2023 (Fig. 2).¹

There were 562 abortions performed at 15 weeks or later in Florida in 2024, down 58% from 2023.

State Report Summary

Ninety-four percent of Florida abortions were performed on state residents in 2024, while 6% were performed on women from other states. The number of abortions performed on nonresidents in Florida decreased by 50% from 2023 to 2024. A possible explanation for this drastic change is that, in 2023, Florida had a much more permissive abortion law compared to the surrounding states, where the majority of nonresident women obtaining abortions in Florida traveled from (Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi). In May 2024, the state’s six-week law went into effect, and Florida’s abortion law became as restrictive as Georgia’s.

Six percent of Florida abortions were performed on girls under the age of 20, 25% were performed on women ages 20 to 24, and 28% on women ages 25 to 29. Thirty-five percent of Florida abortions were performed on women in their thirties, and 5% were performed on women ages 40 and older. One hundred and three abortions were performed on women of unknown maternal age. Fifty-one percent of the abortions were performed on white women, and 34% on black women. CLI estimates that Florida’s black abortion rate was 26.3 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age, which was more than two times the white abortion rate of 11.1. Eight percent of the abortions were performed on women of other races and another 8% on women of unknown races. Thirty-four percent of Florida abortions were performed on Hispanic women, 56% on non-Hispanic women, and 9% on women of unknown ethnicity.

Ten percent of the abortions were performed on married women and 71% on unmarried women, while 19% were obtained by women whose marital status was not reported. Forty-three of abortions were performed on women with no previous live births, 25% on women with one prior live birth, and 32% on women with two or more previous live births. Sixty-two percent of the women undergoing abortions reported zero prior abortions, while 21% reported one prior abortion and 17% more than one. Sixty-one percent of the abortions in Florida in 2024 were drug-induced. Thirty-five percent were curettage procedures, and one abortion was performed via hysterectomy/hysterotomy. Four percent of the abortions were performed using a different or unreported method.

To see how a change in legislation from 2023 to 2024 impacted the gestational ages at which abortions were performed, see the table below:

As one can see from the table, due to legal changes, the number and percentage of abortions performed at six weeks or earlier rose significantly (31%) from 2023 to 2024, but the number of abortions performed at seven weeks or later decreased by 58%. The composition of total abortions performed at six weeks or before and at seven weeks and after virtually switched from 2023 to 2024. Sixty-seven percent of abortions occurred at six weeks of gestation or before in 2024, while 33% occurred at seven weeks or later, compared to 40% being performed at six weeks or before in 2023, while 60% were performed at seven weeks or later.

Six babies were reported to have been born alive during abortion procedures in Florida in 2024, while 14 were reported to have been born alive in 2023. The report does not indicate the gestational ages of the babies or what happened to them after they were born.

Seventy-three percent of Florida abortions were reported as “elective,” 22% were performed for social or economic reasons, and 2% were performed for the mother’s emotional or psychological health. In contrast, only 1% were performed for the mother’s physical health, and less than 1% because the unborn baby had a health condition (0.5% for a “serious abnormality” and 0.3% for a “fatal abnormality”). There were 133 abortions (0.2%) performed because of risk to the mother’s life, 104 (0.2%) due to rape, seven due to incest, and two due to human trafficking.

Abortion Clinic Annual Report

In accordance with Section 390.012 (8) of the Florida Statute Code, ACHA must submit a report to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives recapping all regulatory actions related to abortion centers taken by the agency over that year. ACHA’s 2024 report reveals key statistics about abortion centers operating in the state:

• There were 51 licensed abortion clinics (excluding licensed hospitals and physicians’ offices) in 16 counties. Forty-two of the 51 clinics were licensed as first- and second-trimester abortion centers, while nine were licensed as first-trimester only. Miami-Dade County had the highest number of first-and second-trimester abortion clinics, with six in Miami, three in Hialeah, and one in Miami Gardens.
• Licensed abortion centers submitted 100% of the required induced termination of pregnancy reports.
• The agency conducted 167 on-site inspections, including follow-up visits—aa 209% increase from 2023, when the agency conducted 54 inspections. There were 30 licensure applications and 128 complaint inspections, compared to 22 complaint inspections in 2023.
• There were 30 abortion clinic applications, including 25 renewal applications; four change applications (one personnel change, one change of address, and two requests to terminate a license); and one new application to open an abortion center in Pensacola, Florida (which was denied because the applicant owned a clinic in another state that demonstrated a “pattern of deficient performance”).
• ACHA initiated 10 administrative actions in response to six late ITOP submissions and four late licensure renewal submissions.

Concerningly, “deficient practice” was found during 19 licensure inspections, as opposed to three in 2023, and 10 complaint investigations, as opposed to two in 2023. There were eight cases in which personnel records were incomplete, four instances where the center failed to ensure a patient’s record had the appropriate physician certification, and three instances of centers failing to ensure medications were current for emergency use. A few other examples of deficient practice include one instance each of:

• Failure to ensure ultrasound equipment was available in the clinic;
• Failure to ensure all equipment maintenance documents were available for inspection;
• Failure to maintain its federal Clinical Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certificate; and,
• Failure to ensure fetal remains were removed from the center in a timely manner.

While Florida does not report abortion complications with the rest of its annual abortion statistics, data for any incident resulting in serious injury to a patient or viable fetus during a second-trimester abortion is recorded in the annual Regulatory Actions report. In 2024, seven second-trimester centers submitted a total of 10 reports with a total of 14 injuries: five cases of hemorrhage/excessive bleeding, two cases of a perforated uterus, one cervical injury, and six other, unknown injuries that required specialized medical attention. Nine conditions required hospitalization.

For the first time, the Regulatory Actions Report broke down the number of abortions performed by the type of provider. However, this report seems to have been prepared and published before the state finalized its abortion totals, as the total number of abortions in the Regulatory report was 60,755 versus 64,854 reported by the state as the final total. In 2024, 99% of abortions documented by the Regulatory report were performed at abortion centers, 1% at physicians’ offices (three offices reported performing abortions), and less than 1% at hospitals, of which 40 reported performing abortions.

Guttmacher Data²

In 2024, Guttmacher estimated that 74,970 abortions occurred in Florida, while the state reported 64,854. According to Guttmacher’s travel and residence data,³ 70,950 Florida residents and 4,020 nonresidents obtained abortions in Florida (the state reported 3,875). The number of Florida residents obtaining abortions in the state, as reported by Guttmacher (70,950), was significantly higher than the number reported by the state (60,979). To see the number of abortions obtained in Florida by women from various states according to Guttmacher, as compared to the totals for the same states as reported by Florida,⁴ see the following table:

A possible explanation for the discrepancies in the ACHA-reported data and Guttmacher’s estimates is that the state does not seem to collect data on telehealth (mail-order) abortions, while Guttmacher’s estimates include both the number of brick-and-mortar abortions and the number of mail-order abortions obtained by women in the state regardless of whether those abortions were obtained via shield law (after May 1, 2024) or through providers in the state before May 1, 2024. There is a difference in opinion regarding the legal status of telehealth abortions in the state before the explicit ban went into effect on May 1, 2024, with some people and organizations arguing that there was an implicit ban on such abortions as a result of a 2015 law. Regardless, Guttmacher data captures abortions in both situations and represents a mode of provision that the state seems not to have included in its abortion total. When CLI reached out to ACHA regarding whether the state prohibited telehealth abortions before May 1, 2024, and if they are now collecting data on shield law abortions, ACHA never responded.

Lastly, Guttmacher estimated the number of abortions obtained by Florida residents who traveled to other states to obtain an abortion. To see the number of abortions obtained by Florida women in various states, see the following table:

State Ranking

In 2024, CLI published a paper reevaluating abortion reporting across the country, and Florida was tied for 23^rd best. Florida could continue to improve its abortion reporting by providing more information about the babies who survive abortions and information on all complications that occur, not just those that occur during the second trimester and beyond.

1. National rates were calculated by the Guttmacher Institute. Florida rates were calculated by CLI using the following formula: (total number of abortions performed in Florida ÷ 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. 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 August 28, 2025.
3. Guttmacher’s travel and residence data can be found here (State_Abortion_Travel_2024.csv).
4. ACHA’s report includes totals for nonresidents in other states not included in Guttmacher Institute’s travel data because Guttmacher does not include counts under 100 abortions, per their data suppression guidelines.

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