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ILLINOIS ABORTION STATISTICS

1973-2004

YEAR NUMBER OF
ABORTIONS
  YEAR NUMBER OF
ABORTIONS
1973 32,760   1989 50,633***
1974 46,800   1990 54,039***
1975 56,252   1991 46,502***
1976 66,356   1992 56,552***
1977 71,326   1993 0****
1978 70,211   1994 30,594*****
1979 68,524   1995 52,300
1980 67,514   1996 53,613
1981 67,937   1997 50,147
1982 66,613   1998 49,403
1983 65,434   1999 45,924
1984 60,854*   2000 45,884
1985 61,986**   2001 46,546
1986 61,575**   2002 46,945
1987 48,646***   2003 42,228
1988 50,478***   2004 41,577

* Based on 9 1/2 months of reported data.

** Since the Illinois Department of Public Health was prohibited from mandating abortion reporting by a temporary restraining order issued in 1984, these numbers were generated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from voluntary reports submitted by Illinois abortion facilities.

*** In 1987, CDC turned over the annual voluntary survey of facilities performing abortions to the Department.

**** No data collected.

*****A settlement to the 1984 TRO was reached in the fall of 1993 that allowed Illinois to resume mandatory reporting of abortions. In May 1994, IDPH notified health care providers that abortion reporting was again required. Although, providers were asked to submit abortion numbers dating back to Jan. 1, 1994, only about 1,000 reports were received for the first four months of the year. Data for 1994 should be considered incomplete.






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