Planned Parenthood played a key role in the U.S. abortion boom by popularizing the deadly abortion drug mifepristone, a new study finds

Abortion in the U.S. rose steadily from 1973 , when the Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade decision, until 1990 .

For the next 28 years , however, the total number of abortions declined.

It was n’t until 2018 that “this long-term decline veered sharply upward in a new direction,” about a 20 percent increase that lasted through 2023 .

Planned Parenthood “has explicitly chosen to focus on abortion as central to its mission”.