State data compiled by Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration shows that abortions in Florida will decline precipitously between 2024 and the last few years.

According to the AHCA 2024 “By County Report”, 60,755 unborn children were aborted last year in Florida, including 3,754 whose mother was from outside of Florida. The total number of abortions in Florida in 2024 represents a 28% decrease compared to 2023 when 84052 unborn children were aborted. In 2024, abortions performed outside of the state decreased by 51 per cent from 7 736 in 2023.

State law requires that abortion clinics and doctors who perform abortions outside of a medical setting submit monthly reports to AHCA. The AHCA reports do not include any abortions performed outside the formal health system. Therefore, the total number in Florida of abortions could be higher.

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 and returned the abortion issue to the individual states, the networks that distribute abortion pills in states with shield law and internationally are more active than ever. According to the pro abortion Guttmacher Institute, medication abortions will account for 63 percent (up from 53 percent) of all abortions performed in the United States by 2023.

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The state’s new six-week abortion ban, which took effect on May 1, is likely to be responsible for the sharp drop in abortions recorded in 2024. Florida’s six week restriction allows for exceptions in cases of rape, human trafficking, or incest up to 15 weeks, as well as preserving the mother’s life, and fatal fetal anomalies in pregnancy not yet in the third trimester.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Heartbeat Bill six-week limit in April 2023. However, it was not effective until the Florida Supreme Court decided on the previous 15-week abortion restriction. After the Dobbs ruling, the 15-week abortion limit was implemented in July 2022. The law was allowed to stay in place while the litigation took place, replacing the pre-Dobbs state law that allowed abortions to be performed up to the third month of pregnancy.

Florida appeared to become an “abortion-destination state” while the 15-week restriction was in effect because every surrounding state in the south passed near-total abortion limits or six-week restrictions. Data from AHCA confirms Florida had thousands more women from out-of-state come for abortions between 2023 and 2022 compared with previous years. There were also more abortions and second trimester abortions. In 2022, there were 6,708 out-of state abortions, up from 4,873 and 3,988 respectively in 2021.

Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion group, released data showing that in 2023, one out of three abortions took place in the South and one in twelve in the United States. Guttmacher reported that more women from outside Florida were getting abortions, with a total of over 9,000.

ACHA data include information on trimester as well as the reason why a woman chose to have an abortive. In 2024 there were 57.655 abortions in the first trimester and 3.097 abortions in the second trimester. State data show that three babies were aborted during the third trimester. One was for a fatal fetal anomaly and two others for a genetic defect.

In Florida, the most common reason for abortions in the first and second trimesters is “elective”. The second-most popular reason was “social and economic reasons”, with 12,679 aborted babies in the first and 594 in the second trimester.

Data shows that nearly 1,300 abortions are performed because of the mental or emotional health of the woman; 825 are for reasons other than life-threatening, while 303 are due to genetic defects or deformities in the fetus; and 121 due to physical conditions which endanger the mother’s health.

Around 202 abortions due to fatal fetal anomaly were performed, 16 of which occurred in the first trimester. The other 184 took place in the second trimester.

According to the report, seven abortions were caused by incest. Two were due to victims of human trafficking. And 100 were due to rape. 85 percent occurred in the first trimester.

The AHCA reports that infants who were born alive during abortions are also reported, but the state report doesn’t specify whether they survived or died.

In 2024, the state reported 4 babies born alive during abortions. This is down from 16 in 2022 and 14 in 2023. In 2021, 4 babies were born alive during abortions. This was down from 14 in 2023 and 16 in 2022.

Florida’s current six-week abortion restriction was challenged again in 2024 when pro-abortion groups tried to change the constitution of the state to include the right to an abortion throughout pregnancy, with certain exceptions. The amendment would have removed the current six-week abortion restriction in Florida and made it a destination for other states to get an abortion.

Florida was among ten states that, in November 2024, had an abortion referendum on the ballot. Florida was the first state since the Supreme Court’s Roe decision to reject an abortion amendment. Three of the ten state ballots that included abortion in November were rejected, including Florida and Nebraska.

Florida constitutional amendments require 60 percent approval to be approved. Amendment 4 was narrowly defeated by 57 percent of voters in favor and 43 percent against. In many other states, constitutional amendments are only required to be approved by a simple majority. This lower threshold has allowed abortion measures in conservative states such as Missouri to pass.