Wyoming’s 2025 abortion report was published online by the Wyoming Department of Health (WDOH) in June 2026. The report shows that abortions decreased 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. The report also does not contain the number of mail-order abortions obtained by Wyoming residents prescribed by licensed abortion providers in Wyoming and in other states. In a separate section, the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) will describe data provided by both the Guttmacher Institute’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study (MAPS) and the Society of Family Planning’s (SFP) #WeCount project detailing the number of mail-order abortions obtained by Indiana residents from out of state prescribers. 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, 2025 estimates on out-of-state travel totals have not been released. 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’s law 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…” (§35-6-122).
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 effectively allows abortion throughout pregnancy for nearly any reason (Johnson et al. v. State of Wyoming et al., 2023).
Statistics and Changes in Wyoming Abortions, 2024-2025
The 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
2025 marked the fifth full year of reporting since Wyoming’s current abortion reporting law went into effect. In 2025, there were 448 abortions reported, a decrease of 28% from 2024. Drug-induced abortions decreased by 30% and composed 67% of the 2025 total, as opposed to 69% of the total in 2024 (Fig. 1). CLI estimates that Wyoming’s 2025 abortion rate was 4.0 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age.1 As of July 2026, 11 states had released abortion statistics for 2025, with four showing that abortions had decreased.
State Report Summary
In 2025, the state didn’t report the number of abortions by women’s residency status as it had before 2023. Thirty-eight percent of the abortions were performed on women ages 24 and younger, 50% on women ages 25 to 34, and 12% on women ages 35 and older.
Forty-four percent were obtained by women with no previous live births, compared to 22% by women with one prior live birth and 34% by women with two or more previous births. Fifty-seven percent were performed on women who had never had an abortion before. Twenty-seven percent were performed on women with one previous abortion, and 16% on women with two or more previous abortions.
Eighty-nine percent of the abortions reported in Wyoming occurred at 10 weeks of gestation or earlier, with 46% reported at six weeks or earlier and 43% between seven and 10 weeks. Eleven percent of the abortions (51 abortions) were performed at 11 weeks or later, a decrease of 21 from the 72 reported in 2024. There were two unknown complications reported while 446 abortions were reported to have no associated complications.2
Sixty-seven percent of the abortions occurring in Wyoming in 2025 were drug-induced while 28% were performed via suction curettage procedures. There were 21 dilation and evacuation procedures reported in 2025, compared to one reported in 2024.
Six percent of the abortions reported in Wyoming in 2025 were performed at a doctor’s office, while one abortion was performed at a hospital. Ninety-four percent of the abortions were performed at abortion clinics.
Breakdown of Abortion Providers3
| # of brick-and-mortar locations | 3 |
| # of independent centers | 1 |
| # of Planned Parenthood centers | 0 |
| # of hospitals/doctors’ offices that perform abortions | 2 |
| # of abortion drug providers | 3 |
| # of abortion drug-only providers | 2 |
| # of surgical and abortion drug providers | 1 |
| Latest gestational age that a center performs surgical abortion | Through 23 weeks |
These abortion provider totals were current as of July 20, 2026.
Guttmacher Data4
Guttmacher estimated that in 2025, 520 abortions occurred in Wyoming, versus the state’s reported total of 448. A possible explanation for the discrepancy between the state’s reported total of abortions and Guttmacher’s estimate is that Wyoming report does not include abortions performed using abortion drugs mailed within or from out-of-state, which Guttmacher’s estimate does (as does SFP’s #WeCount project). SFP’s #WeCount project estimated that 830 abortions occurred in the state in 2025, with 390 occurring in-person, 400 via virtual-only, mail-order organizations, and 40 via hybrid brick-and-mortar organizations that ship mail-order abortion drugs.5
State Ranking
In CLI’s updated 2024 evaluation of abortion reporting across the country, Wyoming’s abortion reporting was ranked as tied for 27th 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.
- 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 2020-2025 are Vintage 2024 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 2025 were calculated using the Vintage 2024 postcensal estimates because 2025 population estimates have not yet been released by the CDC.
- Statistics on abortion complications reported here represent a minimal number of deaths and complications as this data is collected in a non-systematic and non-verifiable way. As such, this data cannot be used to calculate either an accurate abortion mortality rate or an accurate abortion complication rate for the state.
- Provider 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/doctors’ offices included in databases like Abortion Finder and INeedAnA. This information was up to date as of July 20, 2026.
- The Guttmacher Institute notes that its monthly abortion totals by state are estimates and that each state’s estimate is within a range of uncertainty. Guttmacher’s data can be found in the CSV folder here(Summary_Table_Annual_2023_2024_2025). This information was updated as of July 20, 2026.
- #WeCount’s data can be found here by 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 20, 2026.
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