
Share of women obtaining abortions who had tried self-induced abortion U.S 2008-2014
This statistic shows the distribution of women who obtained abortions in nonhospital settings in 2008 and 2014 who reported ever having attempted to self-induce an abortion with misoprostol or other substances. It was found that 1.3 percent of women who received an abortion in 2014 reported attempting to self-induce an abortion using misoprostol at some point in their lives.