Virginia’s 2024 abortion facility statistics were provided to the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) upon request in July 2026. Preliminary 2025 facility totals were also provided to CLI but will not be covered in this article. Because Virginia’s Department of Health (VDOH) doesn’t publicly release demographic information related to abortions anymore, and the CDC hasn’t published its annual abortion surveillance reports since 2024 (on 2022 data), only the state’s facility level data will be analyzed.
VDOH noted that their 2024 data only includes abortions performed by centers physically located in the state. This means that abortion drugs mailed into the state by prescribers from other states (associated with virtual-only organizations) as well as the total number of abortion drugs mailed within the state by hybrid brick-and-mortar centers were not included in the state’s 2024 abortion total of 24,280. The data also does not contain the number of abortions obtained by Virginia residents out of state or the number of self-managed abortions performed by women outside of the healthcare system.
In a separate section, CLI will describe data provided by the Guttmacher Institute’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study (MAPS) detailing the number of women who traveled to Virginia to obtain abortions and their states of residence, as well as the number of abortions obtained by Virginia women 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.
A VDOH resource defines abortion (or as the state labels it, “Induced Terminations of Pregnancy”) as “fetal deaths in which the pregnancy has been deliberately terminated with the purpose of producing a nonviable fetus. Molar and ectopic pregnancies are excluded.” The state’s statute code defines abortion differently. The Code of Virginia §16.1-241 notes that to “perform an abortion” is “to interrupt or terminate a pregnancy by any surgical or nonsurgical procedure or to induce a miscarriage.” Another provision within Virginia’s statute code (§32.1-249) defines an induced termination of pregnancy as “the intentional interruption of pregnancy with the intention to produce other than a live-born infant or to remove a dead fetus and which does not result in a live birth.”
In Virginia, abortion is widely available throughout pregnancy because of the state’s ineffective gestational limit at the third trimester. While the language of the law limits abortion after the second trimester, the law contains a broad health (life and health of the mother) exception that doesn’t differentiate between physical and mental health, which effectively allows abortion throughout pregnancy for nearly any reason (Va. Code Ann. §18.2-72-74).
Virginia’s 2024 Facility Report
Below is a comparison of Virginia’s abortion facility totals for 2024 and 2023, as CLI did not publish an analysis of the facility data it received from Virginia in 2023, and it is important to recognize the changing trends of where women obtain abortions in Virginia.
NA = Suppressed facility totals were values less than 10 abortions.
In summary, in 2024, 65% of Virginia’s reported abortions were performed by independent centers, 33% by Planned Parenthood centers, and 1% by hospital and doctor’s offices. In 2023, the breakdown was 80%, 18%, and 2%, respectively.
In 2024, while the Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Roanoke and Charlottesville locations combined to perform the most abortions in the state, the individual facility that performed the most abortions in the state was the Whole Woman’s Health location in Alexandria.1 The facility that experienced the biggest percentage (1,569%) and numerical (1,930 abortions) increase in the total number of abortions performed from 2023 to 2024 was the Bristol Women’s Health Center. The Medical Center for Women’s Peninsula location had the largest percentage (34%) and numerical (238 abortions) decrease from 2023 to 2024.
Notably, The Medical Center for Women Roanoke location did not report any abortions in 2023 or 2024, even though Google Reviews showed that patients seemingly obtained abortions in both 2023 and 2024. This location performs both drug-induced and surgical abortions.
The Summit Medical Center in Roanoke, Meadow Reproductive Health and Wellness Center, Whole Woman’s Health of Petersburg, and A Woman’s Choice of Danville all opened in 2024, which is why zero abortions were reported at these facilities in 2023. Relatedly, it is unclear if the Falls Church Health Care Center (the only other brick-and-mortar center in Virginia that currently also mails abortion drugs within the state) did not report any abortions performed via the mail because zero occurred, because the service hadn’t started yet, or because they were not reported to the VDOH.
Guttmacher Data2
In 2024, Guttmacher estimated that 40,100 abortions occurred in Virginia, while the state reported 24,280. Guttmacher’s 2024 estimate was 65% higher than the state’s reported total. Guttmacher also estimated that of the 40,100 abortions performed in the state, 30,670 were performed on state residents while 9,430 were performed on nonresidents. To see the states from which women traveled to Virginia to obtain abortions, and the numbers of these women, see below:
- 280 Alabama women
- 160 D.C. women
- 1,840 Florida women
- 1,140 Georgia women
- 110 Kentucky women
- 170 Louisiana women
- 460 Maryland women
- 2,240 North Carolina women
- 870 South Carolina women
- 1,280 Tennessee women
- 240 Texas women
- 460 West Virginia women
- 180 women from unknown nonresident states
Additionally, Guttmacher estimated that 3,280 Virginia women traveled out of state to obtain an abortion. To see the states where Virginia women traveled to obtain abortions, and the numbers of these women, see below:
- 940 VA women to D.C.
- 1,640 to Maryland
- 570 to North Carolina
- 130 to unknown states
The discrepancy in abortions reported by the state and estimated by Guttmacher (a difference of 15,820 abortions) is primarily a result of the discrepancy in mail-order abortions reported by the state and estimated by Guttmacher. The state reported that in 2024, 681 mail-order abortions were reported to VDOH. As noted above, the state did mention in the data provided to CLI that mail-order abortions from outside of Virginia are not included in the state’s reported total. The Society of Family Planning’s (SFP) #WeCount project found that of the 41,900 abortions they estimated to have occurred in Virginia in 2024, 10,130 abortion drug regimens were mailed within and/or from outside of the state. SFP also found that 31,770 of the 41,900 estimated abortions were performed in person, while the state reported 23,599.3 While the discrepancy between the state’s reported total and Guttmacher and #WeCount’s estimates was primarily driven by the state’s exclusion of mail-order abortion drugs mailed into the state, the discrepancy of abortions occurring at brick-and-mortar centers within the state according to the state and Guttmacher/#WeCount is still statistically significant.
- The totals for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic’s Roanoke and Charlottesville locations had to be combined for CLI’s graphical presentation of the data because the data provided to CLI did not differentiate which individual total was for which center. Instead, the table simply listed Planned Parenthood South Atlantic in two different rows. Charlottesville and Roanoke are the only two Virginia locations governed by the Planned Parenthood South Atlantic affiliate.
- The Guttmacher Institute notes that their monthly abortion totals by state are estimates and that each state’s estimate is within a range of uncertainty. Guttmacher’s travel and residence data can be found in the CSV folderhere (State_Abortion_Travel_2023_2024_2025.csv). This information is updated as of October 5, 2026.
- #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 is updated as of October 5, 2026.
