Rate of abortion among teenage girls in the U.S. 2021, by age
majority of U.S. adults still favor the legalization of abortion.
In 2021, the rate of abortion among adolescent women aged 19 years in the United States was around 12 per 1,000 population. Abortion in the United States remains a controversial and divisive subject. In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the historic court ruling that gave women the right to abortion. Now states are allowed to completely ban the procedure if they so choose. However, despite the ruling and subsequent abortion bans in many states, polls show the