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Fri May 15, 2026, 10:38 PM

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Diversity in Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Among Abortion Patients

[The Guttmacher Institute's] most recent Abortion Patient Survey provides data on a national sample of 6,674 individuals who obtained an abortion at 56 health care facilities across the United States in 2021–2022 (see Methodology below for more details).

Some 1.1% of respondents reported their gender identity as something other than woman or female: 0.7% identified as gender nonbinary, 0.3% as transgender male and 0.1% as something else. Sixteen percent of respondents reported their sexuality as nonheterosexual: 12% said they were bisexual, 2% pansexual, 0.3% lesbian and 2% something else. Most respondents who identified as something other than cisgender also reported that they were not heterosexual.

Applying the overall proportion of respondents who identified as LGBTQ+ to the number of total abortions nationally in 2020 indicates that as many as 149,000 individuals who obtained abortion care that year identified as something other than cisgender and/or heterosexual.

https://www.guttmacher.org/2023/06/many-16-people-having-abortions-do-not-identify-heterosexual-women

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Hillary - Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. [View all] Swede Friday OP

Not people Hillary. Women. Women have always had and will always have Autumn Friday #1

Are women not people? People who aren't women also get abortions. WhiskeyGrinder Friday #3

Only women are impacted by abortion or the lack of safe abortions. It's not a people thing. Autumn Friday #4

I can assure you men and nonbinary people also get abortions. WhiskeyGrinder Friday #5

I can assure you no man has ever had an abortion. Men may be a bystander in a woman's abortion Autumn Friday #6

Having helped men and nonbinary people get abortions, I feel sorry that you live in such a narrow world. WhiskeyGrinder Friday #9

so the man had a uterus ? dave99 Friday #27

some men do WhiskeyGrinder Friday #45

The only sexual organ that matters for gender identity is the brain. Zelda_Orchid Yesterday #49

Only human beings with x only chromosomes can create and carry babies questionseverything Friday #26

Not true. Pregnancy is possible in women with Swyer syndrome (46,XY) WhiskeyGrinder Yesterday #52

Google says they would need a donated egg, if so my point would stand questionseverything 22 hrs ago #55

There is a documented study of a woman who had a normal pregnancy with her own eggs with that condition. So no. WhiskeyGrinder 22 hrs ago #57

You mean the boxer, right? questionseverything 21 hrs ago #58

No, why? WhiskeyGrinder 19 hrs ago #59

Just curious as to the " documented" case questionseverything 19 hrs ago #60

"." WhiskeyGrinder 17 hrs ago #61

Categorically untrue LearnedHand Friday #20

Do you think anyone reading this edhopper Friday #7

JK Rowling? nt LexVegas Friday #11

Egads, I hate that harridan wolfie001 Yesterday #48

This is why Democrats don't win. hamsterjill Friday #14

I'mWithYou+your statement. I'mWithHer(Hillary) oasis Friday #30

Post removed Post removed Friday #32

Oh, ffs. 🙄 QueerDuck Friday #17

Women are people Cirsium Friday #34

I know. QueerDuck Friday #41

I'm hiring a brass band... Cirsium Friday #42

Oh dear... lapucelle Friday #43

The GOP doesn't believe in facts. nt BootinUp Friday #2

My Favorite Abortion Quiet Em Friday #8

I think the answer is easier Buckeyeblue Friday #21

People do, in fact, like abortion. It's a solution that works for them. WhiskeyGrinder Friday #22

I don't know a single woman who is happy to have Phoenix61 Friday #28

this is such an ignorant statement electron_blue Friday #35

How so? nt Phoenix61 Friday #36

cuz... electron_blue Yesterday #54

I stand by what I said. Phoenix61 22 hrs ago #56

You're still missing the point and it seems like you have not been in that situation electron_blue 17 hrs ago #62

I know many people who were happy to get an abortion and did not find it disruptive. WhiskeyGrinder Friday #46

Yes!! Hope22 Friday #38

Thank you Madame President. niyad Friday #10

I am in my eighties. Abortion was never legal when I was single and birth control was hit or miss. appleannie1 Friday #12

Also young women who needed abortions and couldn't get them safely FakeNoose Friday #13

and public hospitals had abortion wards, mopinko Friday #19

Allow me to recommend a book about that! ShazzieB Friday #23

i'm old enough to remember those days. fortunately never had to face that myself, but mopinko Friday #24

Oh my goodness! This is bringing back horrible memories FakeNoose Friday #37

i find myself always pointed out that the men who make these laws mopinko Friday #39

Even the Bush family was pro-choice after a family friend died from a back-alley abortion. OMGWTF Friday #29

I've heard that abortions are on the increase Ilsa Friday #15

Part of it's the economy, but it's more because the abortion pill protocol makes it easier to end a pregnancy, WhiskeyGrinder Friday #16

Kitchen tables ... oldsoldierfadingfast Friday #44

But this is not about reality, it is about the control of women. Other methods have been used and have killed women. efhmc Friday #18

As usual, Hillary is right dlk Friday #25

We can do so much better than rusty coathanger abortions,..and then sepsis,.... magicarpet Friday #31

i'm so grateful for these meds. mopinko Friday #40

I am stunned by some responses. karynnj Friday #33

Mahalo to you and Hillary, Swede. Cha Friday #47

Before modern times, and now again, women will have to "Call Jane" TomWilm Yesterday #50

Yes, but only those who are in the upmost echelon should be able to have one. OldBaldy1701E Yesterday #51

Hillary intentionally used the word people, likely because of Republicans concerted efforts to dehumanize women dlk Yesterday #53