These maps, compiled using data from the New York Times and the Guttmacher Institute, underscore findings from a recent Times investigation, including that there were more than 700,000 searches for how to self-induce an abortion in 2015.
Specifically, the two maps show a correlation between the states with the highest rates of self-induced abortion searches and those with the most abortion restrictions. Conversely, states with the lowest rate of such searches tend to have fewer antiabortion-rights laws. Further, the Times review found that searches for self-induced abortion jumped by 40 percent in 2011, the year that the Guttmacher Institute pinpoints as "the beginning of the country's recent crackdown on abortion" (Stephens-Davidowitz, New York Times, 3/5).


