The number of abortions rose in Ohio in 2025 with low rates of complications amid a 15% increase compared to the year before, “primarily due to telehealth prescriptions provided to Ohio residents,” the state’s annual report on preliminary data says. 

The report continued years of statistics showing low rates of complications compared to the number of abortions occurring.

Last year, legislators used a provision in the state operating budget to move up the deadline for the Ohio Department of Health to release the yearly report, from October to March.

The budget changes also revised details of the report, such as the age ranges listed, along with requiring an additional monthly report from the department.

The 2025 report noted the changes in release date and other details, adding that the earlier release data “requires analysis of a preliminary dataset,” and that “some abortion and complication reports may have been incomplete or in transit at the time this annual report was created.”

“While this earlier deadline required finalization of the report before all data was fully confirmed, the annual report does include the most accurate information available,” the department wrote.

The report showed a total of 25,135 abortions in 2025, up from 19,892 in 2024.

Of those more than 25,000 abortions conducted last year, 195 were reported to have one or more complications. The most frequent complication, still only occurring in 81 abortions, is categorized as a “incomplete abortion.”

No deaths related to abortion were reported in Ohio in 2025.

The vast majority of abortions, 73%, occurred in pregnancies that were less than nine weeks along, and 17.9% happened at nine to 12 weeks gestation.

Less than 300 abortions happened at 19 or more weeks of gestation, and of those, 439 were determined via ultrasound or other method to be inviable pregnancies. Two of the abortions conducted after 19 weeks gestation were considered viable.

The biggest group to receive abortions in 2025 were women 18 to 24 years old, which made up 32.8% of the total abortions in the state.

One of the new data points listed in the health department report is the number of abortions conducted on minors, including the facility at which they received the abortion.

In total, Ohio saw 148 abortions for residents 16 or younger, and 412 for those between the ages of 16 and 17.

The majority of abortions that occurred in Ohio were obtained by Ohio residents, who made up 79.1% of total abortions.

Out-of-state residents made up 5,200 of the abortions that occurred in the state, an increase from the 3,100 abortions noted in 2024 numbers.

Data that was listed as “unknown” in the report came up most when it came to demographic data, such as race or education.

For county-level identification, the report noted that telehealth prescriptions provided to Ohio residents were listed as “unknown/not reported,” a data point which amounted to 3,776 cases.

Also listed as “unknown” were more than 10,000 instances of the type of contraception used at conception in abortion cases.

The report comes as Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio announced an expansion of their telehealth abortion services through a virtual health center.

The organization said Ohioans can make appointments to receive medication abortion pills, “which is a convenient, accessible option for patients, particularly those who live in one of Ohio’s 24 counties without an OB/GYN, and for those who have a job or caretaking responsibilities that make it difficult to go to in-person appointments,” according to a statement.

Abortion rights advocacy group Abortion Forward said the newest state report shows more patients “getting access to the care they need,” a mark of success since a constitutional amendment allowing abortion up to viability was approved by 57% of Ohio voters in 2023.

“This is exactly why voters approved the Reproductive Freedom Amendment,” said Jaime Miracle, Abortion Forward deputy director.

Miracle said the report shows Ohio as a “medical destination state” for abortion services, especially for 13 states where the services have been banned, including Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia.

Ohio anti-abortion lobby group Ohio Right to Life said the report was a “tragic demonstration that the removal of protections for babies and their mothers in Ohio has real-world consequences.”

“We worked so hard to inform the voters of Ohio that adding an amendment to expand abortion would be devastating to Ohio,” said Carrie Snyder, Ohio Right to Life executive director, in a statement. “…The individual and cumulative magnitude of these statistics should not be overlooked.”

Ohio’s state and federal Republican legislators are working to regulate telehealth abortion, among other attempts to work around the state’s constitutional amendment.

On the federal side, Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted participated in a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing where abortion drugs were called “dangerous,” particularly mifepristone, one pill in a two-drug regimen for a medication abortion.

Husted joined fellow Republicans in pushing for the return of in-person requirements to receive abortion medication.

Decades of peer-reviewed studies have shown the two-pill regimen to be safe, with serious complications found to be statistically rare.

Mifepristone has been an FDA-approved medication for more than two decades.

As he faces a midterm election challenge from Democratic former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Husted will receive the financial backing of national pro-life groups.

In an announcement, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, and a pro-life political action committee called Women Speak Out said they would be putting $3.25 million into a campaign to “visit 500,000 Buckeye State voters at their homes by Election Day” in support of Husted, “as well as to elect pro-life champions in key U.S. House races.”

“The Ohio campaign is part of an overall $80 million investment for the 2026 midterm cycle to reach 10.5 million voters nationally, in the nation’s most competitive House, Senate, and (governor) battlegrounds,” a release from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America stated.