LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – According to the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services’ vital statistics records, 26.5% of women who have had induced abortions in Michigan have had two or
more additional abortions called “previous induced abortions.” That’s more than 1/4 of Michigan women who have decided to choose abortion as one option of birth control in 2021.

This is the highest percentage reported since the data was first collected in 1980.

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An induced abortion is a deliberate interruption of a pregnancy.

A whopping 4,045 out of the 7,525 women who had two or more previous induced abortions are from Wayne County alone which accounts for more than 50% of the total for all counties.

Black women accounted the the highest number of women who chose to have a total of three or more abortions with 5,611 doing so; followed by 1,472 white women, 25 American Indians, 55 Asian & Pacific Islanders, 106 multiracial women and 62 reported as “other.”

Overall, according to the data collected by the state of Michigan, there were 30,074 reported induced abortions in 2021 with the highest number of abortions in Michigan being done for women who are 30 years of age and older.

Those abortions accounted for 33.8% of the abortions in Michigan in 2021.

Women who were not married accounted for 85.1% of the abortions.

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The county with the highest number of abortions in 2021 was Wayne County with an abortion rate of 33.7 abortions per 1000 females ages 15-44. Other counties with high abortion rates include Genesee (22.1), Macomb (19.3), Oakland (14.6) and Muskegon (13.4).

By race, 55.6% of the abortions by women in Michigan in 2021 were by black women and 35% by whites, with the remaining races reporting less than 3% for each race.

The reporting of previous induced abortions specifically says it pertains to “Michigan residents” but the reporting on overall induced abortions says that the information is in regard to abortions “occurring in Michigan.”

With reports of abortion tourism possibly coming to our state, it is unclear if the state of Michigan is going to separate out the data of how many Michigan residents get abortions and how many are done here for residents of other states.

If they are all added together as it appears to be done now, that could propel Michigan abortion statistics into numbers never seen before in our state.