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Spain’s 2024 Abortions Rise 3% to 106,172, Mostly in Private Clinics

The health ministry is moving to enforce the 2023 mandate by ordering regional plans with possible legal steps to expand public provision.

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Participantes en una manifestación a favor del aborto.
La ministra, en la rueda de prensa
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Overview

  • Official data report 106,172 voluntary terminations in 2024, up 2.98%, for an incidence of 12.36 per 1,000 women aged 15–44.
  • About 79% of procedures were performed in private centers compared with roughly 21% in the public network as the minister cites widespread regional noncompliance.
  • Extremadura, Andalucía, Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid, Murcia, Ceuta and Melilla diverted virtually all cases to private clinics, with Madrid recording only 86 public procedures (0.47%) last year.
  • Most abortions occurred before eight weeks of gestation, with pharmacological methods predominant in public services and surgical approaches prevailing in private and extrahospital centers.
  • Nearly half of patients reported no contraceptive use; cases rose among under‑20s to 11,699 (+6.99%), increased notably among women 30–39, and Catalunya led with 21,761 cases and the highest rate.