Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, November 2021 / Vol. 70 / No. SS-9

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• Alternative Title:
  Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2019
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries
• Personal Author:
  Kortsmit, Katherine ; Mandel, Michele G. ; Reeves, Jennifer A. ; Clark, Elizabeth ; Pagano, H. Pamela ; Nguyen, Antoinette ; Petersen, Emily E. ; Whiteman, Maura K.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Reproductive Health
• Description:
  Problem/Condition
  
  CDC conducts abortion Surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions and number of abortion-related deaths in the United States
  
  Period Covered
  
  2019.
  
  Description of System
  
  Each year, CDC requests abortion data from the central health agencies for 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City. For 2019, 49 reporting areas voluntarily provided aggregate abortion data to CDC. Of these, 48 reporting areas provided data each year during 2010–2019. Census and natality data were used to calculate abortion rates (number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years) and ratios (number of abortions per 1,000 live births), respectively. Abortion-related deaths from 2018 were assessed as part of CDC’s Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System (PMSS).
  
  Results
  
  A total of 629,898 abortions for 2019 were reported to CDC from 49 reporting areas. Among 48 reporting areas with data each year during 2010–2019, in 2019, a total of 625,346 abortions were reported, the abortion rate was 11.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years, and the abortion ratio was 195 abortions per 1,000 live births. From 2018 to 2019, the total number of abortions increased 2% (from 614,820 total abortions), the abortion rate increased 0.9% (from 11.3 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years), and the abortion ratio increased 3% (from 189 abortions per 1,000 live births). From 2010 to 2019, the total number of reported abortions, abortion rate, and abortion ratio decreased 18% (from 762,755), 21% (from 14.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years), and 13% (from 225 abortions per 1,000 live births), respectively.
  
  Interpretation
  
  Among the 48 areas that reported data continuously during 2010–2019, overall decreases were observed during 2010–2019 in the total number, rate, and ratio of reported abortions; however, from 2018 to 2019, 1%–3% increases were observed across all measures.
  
  Public Health Action
  
  Abortion Surveillance can be used to help evaluate programs aimed at promoting equitable access to patient-centered quality contraceptive services in the United States to reduce unintended pregnancies.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Abortion, Legal Adolescent Adult Female Humans Population Surveillance Pregnancy Young Adult
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, 2021; v. 70, no. 9
• Series:
  Surveillance Summaries: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss7009a1
• ISSN:
  1546-0738 (print) ; 1545-8636 (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  34818321
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8654281
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  32 pdf pages
• Volume:
  70
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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