Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH

Are abortion numbers rising in the US? Podcast Episode · More or Less: Behind the Stats · 08/06/2025 · 9m

Really enjoyed talking to Lizzy McNeill on the BBC More or Less podcast about trends in abortion provision post Dobbs (along with @ushma.bsky.social !) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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#WeCount - Society of Family Planning The Society of Family Planning is the source for abortion and contraception science.

Ready to dive into the latest data on how abortion volume is shifting across the US?

Explore our newly revamped #WeCount page, where you can build your own custom charts and downloadable tables using the new data explorer.

societyfp.org/research/wec...

As an #NIH employee, I support our #EPA colleagues in their #DeclarationofDissent. You can sign it, too. #FEDStrong

Three years after Roe fell, more women are managing their abortions without doctors A growing body of research demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of self-managed abortion with pills, coupled with the global pandemic in 2020 and the fall of Roe in 2022, has many U.S. doctors c...

Society members Elisa Wells, MPH and Jennifer Karlin, MD, PhD are featured in this recent NPR article about the safety of and access to self-managed abortion care.

www.npr.org/2025/06/22/g...

And while we’re at it, if Texas can put age requirements for porn sites, then California can put age requirements for any site about guns.

And with what we know about FOX News harming seniors, age limits for watching that channel.

DO IT.

The FDA’s ‘data guy’ should trust the data on the abortion pill FDA Commissioner Marty Makary’s pledge to reexamine the safety of medication abortion isn’t just pointless — it’s dangerous.

If the FDA wants data about medication abortion, we've got it.

"The evidence for medication abortion’s safety is overwhelming and crystal clear. The FDA’s job is simple: follow the science, not second-guess it," write @ushma.bsky.social and Kiki Freedman in @thehill.com

Thank you for spotlighting the rock-solid science behind the abortion pill—and helping cut through the noise with facts that matter.

The FDA’s ‘data guy’ should trust the data on the abortion pill FDA Commissioner Marty Makary’s pledge to reexamine the safety of medication abortion isn’t just pointless — it’s dangerous.

"Makary, who proudly calls himself a 'data guy' should have no trouble acknowledging that the science behind mifepristone is rock solid—and it hasn’t changed."

📣My new op-ed with @heyjane.com's Kiki Fredman that calls on @fda.gov to trust the data on the #abortion pill!

thehill.com/opinion/heal...

#WeCount report, April 2022 to December 2024 - Society of Family Planning Author: Society of Family Planning Published: June 23, 2025 #WeCount is a time-limited reporting effort that aims to capture national shifts in abortion volume, by state and month, following the Dobbs...

Check out our full report for more results and info on our methods.

societyfp.org/research/wec...

There is massive variation in the use of telehealth in states where abortion remains legally protected. In states where in-person care is easily available, telehealth is less common.

But telehealth abortions are also on the rise in states where abortion is legally protected.

Shield laws have facilitated the increases.

Telehealth abortions continue to be on the rise. By the end of 2024, 1 in 4 abortions were provided via telehealth.

The monthly average number of abortions climbed from around 80,000 in 2022, to 88,000 in 2023, to 95,000 in 2024.

Abortions have remained slightly HIGHER than before Dobbs.

It's the 3rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision.

As Co-Chair of @societyfp.bsky.social's #WeCount Project, I wanted to share some of our latest findings. 👇

The U.S. saw just over 1 million abortions in 2024.

societyfp.org/research/wec...

The Propaganda That Threatens the FDA’s Mifepristone Regulations — rePROs Fight Back Mifepristone is the first (and extremely safe) of two medications that people will take during a medication abortion—and access to it is under blatant attack in the courts. Dr. Ushma Upadhyay ,…

Mifepristone is the first (and extremely safe) of two medications that people will take during a medication abortion—and access to it is under attack in the courts.

ANSIRH expert @ushma.bsky.social‬ discussed these attacks on @reprosfightback.bsky.social‬.

This not only eliminates hope for a vaccine going forward, but also undoes all the progress that has been made so far.

The only explanation for these insane policy shifts is that they wrongly view HIV as a disease that only affects gay people and Africans, and want them to die.

“he is trying to please overlords while saying things he must know are false."

Another said that while Bh*ttach*rya had once been "respected," "now he sounds like a joke, an ignorant political hack, every time he speaks...he comes across as someone who has sold his soul."

Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medi...

Denying lifesaving care, threatening doctors — Trump’s policies are deadly. And if women die because of them, that’s not a side effect. It’s his goal.

apnews.com/article/abor... administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions

🚨 New Episode 🚨

This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social I talked to the wonderful @ushma.bsky.social with @ansirh.bsky.social and Julia Kay with @aclu.org about Project 2025 Abortion Pill Pseudo-Study and the threats to access to mifepristone. #podcast

How shoddy science is fueling a charge to restrict abortion pill access The FDA has been tasked with re-evaluating the safety of mifepristone after a flawed report claimed it has a high rate of serious complications.

“We should all be alarmed that the people in charge of our public health institutions are calling for a review of the science based on an unvetted and flawed report,” said ANSIRH researcher @ushma.bsky.social‬

Reproductive-rights groups push against Kennedy’s mifepristone review Reproductive-rights advocates are pushing back against the review of the abortion medication mifepristone ordered by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.   Kenn…

“The FDA could be doing even more to eliminate medically unjustified barriers to these medications. Instead, there is now an effort to use junk science as a basis for even more restrictions."

@ushma.bsky.social of @ansirh.bsky.social on baseless attacks on mifepristone

No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss

How shoddy science is fueling a charge to restrict abortion pill access The FDA has been tasked with re-evaluating the safety of mifepristone after a flawed report claimed it has a high rate of serious complications.

“We should all be alarmed that the people in charge of our public health institutions are calling for a review of the science based on an unvetted and flawed report." - @ushma.bsky.social‬ www.nbcnews.com/health/women...

One crappy report cannot silence decades of peer-reviewed high-quaility published research.

In this study, published in Nature Medicine, among over 6,000 patients who had a telehealth abortion. We found that telehealth abortion was just as safe and effective as published estimates of in-person care. Serious adverse events were 0.25%.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this study, we followed people looking at all healthcare up to 6 weeks after their abortion.

Among 11,000 medication abortions, less than a third of one percent (0.3%) had a serious adverse event.

journals.lww.com/greenjournal...

Hawley is pointing to new junk science to motivate RFK Jr. and FDA to review the science on mifepristone.

I've been studying #abortion safety for a decade.

The science is clear: mifepristone is safe.

Let me tell you about a couple of **peer-reviewed and published** studies I've done... 🧪