Telehealth Abortions Have Increased 27 Percent In 2025 In The Wake Of Roe V. Wade Being Overturned

people have been accessing abortion care via telehealth, according to new data released from The Society of Family Planning on Tuesday, Dec. 9.

27% of abortions provided in the U.S. from January to June 2025 were provided via telehealth, according to the SFP. This percentage rose slightly, compared to 25% at the end of 2024 and just 5% in spring 2022, just before Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022.

“Telehealth abortions provided to people living in states with total bans increased substantially in the first six months of 2025,” the report reads.

The SFP now estimates an average of nearly 15,000 abortions were provided per month from January to June 2025. The new data points to telehealth providers maintaining access to patients in need of reproductive care — including in states with laws restricting or prohibiting abortion access.

“Telehealth has become a lifeline for people accessing abortion care, especially those in states with abortion bans,” Dr. Ushma Upadhyay said in a statement, per ABC News. Dr. Upadhyay serves as the Society of Family Planning #WeCount co-chair and is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health.

The telehealth appointments are permitted under shield laws in several states that prevent medical providers from being prosecuted over providing access to the abortion pill, commonly known as mifepristone or misoprostol, according to ABC News.

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Shield laws refer to “Legal protections put in place by some states to reduce legal risk for clinicians who offer abortions to patients in states where abortion is prohibited or severely restricted,” according to the SFP’s report.

The SFP began collecting data on the number of abortions completed in the U.S. by month and state in April 2022, shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

As of December, 13 states have a total abortion ban, with 28 having abortion bans based on gestational duration, per the Guttmacher Institute.