Minnesota Abortions Reach Three-Decade High Under Tim Walz
Abortions increased for the third straight year and hit a 34-year high in 2024, according to a report released today by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). Last year’s abortion total of 16,315 marked a 61 percent rise since 2021, but it might exclude abortions from one longstanding facility that was active during 2024. The gestational age of many abortions was not reported as required.
“With DFL majorities following the 2022 elections, the legislature and Gov. Walz worked to make Minnesota an extreme outlier—in the region, in the country, and in the world,” said MCCL Co-Executive Director Cathy Blaeser.
“They legalized abortion for any reason and at any time throughout pregnancy. They revoked protection for born-alive infants. They repealed a program supporting pregnant women and new mothers as well as a law ensuring informed consent prior to abortion. They also weakened abortion reporting requirements so that the public knows a lot less, and abortion facilities face no repercussions for keeping us in the dark. It’s long past time to restore and strengthen commonsense
protections for innocent human life: for newborns who survive abortion or who have disabilities, for women at risk of coerced abortion or caught in trafficking, for unborn babies who can experience pain. It’s time to support women and protect both mother and child.”
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The recent surge defies a long-term downward trajectory that had seen abortions drop 48 percent from 1980 to 2015. The 2024 total is the highest in Minnesota since 1990. More than 3,000 abortions took place on non-Minnesota residents (similar to the previous year), according to today’s report; most of these were residents of surrounding states. Abortions on Minnesotan residents
>Notably, Robbinsdale Clinic, which closed in early 2025 but performed abortions throughout 2024, is not listed in the new MDH report; the center reported 726 abortions in 2023. In addition, the gestational age of more than 1,000 abortions was not reported, a sharp departure from previous years (that figure is a 348 percent increase over the previous year and a 1,368 percent jump since 2022). A total of 379 abortions were reported at 20 weeks gestation or later (similar to 2023), with two in the third trimester.
Among abortion facilities, Planned Parenthood performed a record-high 10,638 abortions in 2024, while practitioners like Just the Pill and Carafem, which send chemical abortion drugs through the mail, accounted for a significant portion; 1,643 abortions were classified as “telehealth.”
In 2023, lawmakers changed parts of Minnesota’s abortion reporting law, delaying the release date of the annual MDH report to Dec. 31 and repealing certain reporting requirements. As a result, today’s report does not include post-operative abortion complications or the reasons behind abortion. Nor does it report cases of infants who survive abortion and the care they receive. Lawmakers in 2023 also gutted a law requiring that medically appropriate measures be taken to save the lives of such infants.
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