Here’s Why the CDC is Not Publishing Annual Abortion Data

Every year, typically the day before Thanksgiving, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued its Abortion Surveillance report, usually giving us abortion data from most of the states for two years earlier. It takes that long to compile it.This year, Thanksgiving came and went, and, surprisingly, no study from the CDC.We were especially anxious to see this year’s report. It would have given us data from 2023, the first full year since Dobbs and the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Though CDC