The Center for Disease Control has released abortion statistics for 2008. It takes the CDC a fair amount of time to collect abortion statistics, nationwide, and publish their findings, and these numbers are not 100% reliable, considering that states like California and New Hampshire did not report any abortion numbers to the CDC from the years 1999-2008, and some states, like Alaska, Louisiana, Maryland, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, failed to report their numbers during some of the years from 1999 – 2008. All things considered, however, the CDC provides one of the best snapshots of abortion trends in America (if nothing else it tells us what is happening in 43 out of 50 states over the course of a decade).
| Year | Number of Abortions |
| 1999 | 861,789 |
| 2000 | 857,475 |
| 2001 | 853,485 |
| 2002 | 854,122 |
| 2003 | 848,163 |
| 2004 | 839,226 |
| 2005 | 820,151 |
| 2006 | 852,385 |
| 2007 | 827,609 |
| 2008 | 825,564 |
