115 Abortion Centers Across America Kill Viable Babies in Abortions
When examining gestational limits, Operation Rescue used self-imposed limits at each abortion business, not the state-mandated limit.
In 2025, 64% of abortion clinics nationwide limited abortions to the first 14 weeks – the same percentage found in the previous year. However, the percentage of abortion clinics that commit later abortions (20 weeks and beyond) saw a slight rise from 17% in 2024 to 18% in 2025. In other words, 115 clinics in America are willing to kill babies in the womb well into the second trimester.
Gestational cut-off ranges were also assessed independently for surgical abortions versus pill abortions committed at brick-and-mortar clinics.
Gestational Limits for Pill Abortions
Looking at the breakdown of abortion clinics committing chemical abortions in the first 14 weeks, 10% limit abortion pills to six weeks or less, and are located in states with heartbeat laws.
Twenty-three percent administer or mail pills from 7 to 10 weeks, a 3% drop from 2024. However, the number of clinics that offer abortion pills between 11 and 13 weeks increased from 64% in 2024 to 67% in 2025. In addition, at least one brick-and-mortar clinic in 2025 offered abortion pills up to 14 weeks. Not only do the majority of abortion clinics provide abortion pills well past the FDA’s limit of 10 weeks, at least one brick-and-mortar clinic is willing to go even further – into the second trimester.
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Operation Rescue has reported again and again on the dangers of chemical abortion. Alyona Dixon, Amber Thurman, and Candi Miller are all women who recently died from complications after ingesting abortion pills. Of the three, Dixon was reportedly past the FDA’s limit of 10 weeks.
The media never revealed the gestational age of Miller’s baby. However, she received abortion pills from Aid Access, a virtual supplier that offers abortion pills up to 14 weeks as well as “future” abortion pills – meaning pills for women who are not even pregnant. Aid Access also does not require any kind of phone or video conference to verify information offered by the woman seeking the pills. Miller could have been months into pregnancy and still received pills from Aid Access. Perhaps that is why the media seemed able to somehow verify everything about Miller’s death except how far along she was. Miller being dangerously past 10 or even 14 weeks would not have fit the pro-abortion narrative.
Virtual Suppliers Even More Willing to Extend Gestational Limits
The willingness to push past the FDA’s 10-week limit is most obvious among the Virtual Back-Alley. For two consecutive years, at least 85% of virtual suppliers exceeded that cut-off.
In 2025, 74% overall limited abortion pills to 11 weeks. However, the latest gestational age identified among virtual suppliers in 2024 was 13 weeks, offered by 3 suppliers. In 2025, not only did that number of suppliers increase to 4, but two additional virtual suppliers offered abortion pills up to 14 weeks.
Combined, 11% of virtual suppliers provided pills on the cusp or beginning days of the second trimester in 2025. One year prior, it was only 5% of virtual suppliers.
Gestational Limits for Surgical Abortions
Just over one-third (31%) of surgical abortion clinics committed abortions at 20 weeks or later – a slight increase from 2024 (30%) – while the number of surgical clinics that commit abortions before 14 weeks fell slightly, moving from 37% in 2024 to 36% in 2025.
This trade of 1% from earlier abortions to later-term abortions is the result of the “14 and under” category losing 4 clinics in 2025, and the “20 weeks or later” category gaining three.
The percentage of surgical abortions committed between 14 weeks and 19 weeks and 6 days remained the same (33%).
Latest Gestational Limits Nationwide
In 2025, the latest gestation age at which pills were administered at brick-and-mortar clinics nationwide was 14 weeks – one week later than the previous year, and four weeks beyond the FDA-approved limit.
The maximum gestational age documented during the survey for surgical abortions was 39 weeks, and several clinics evaluate circumstances on a case-by-case basis to perform abortions beyond their own stated limits.
In 2024, eight states and the District of Columbia had no gestational limits on the books. In 2025, that number increased to 10 states that legally allow abortion through all nine months, as well as the District of Columbia. Those states include: Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, and Vermont.
In seven states, the age at which abortions were committed was extended, and Missouri, which was abortion-free in 2024, resumed abortions up to 18 weeks of gestation.
Of the 37 states with legalized abortion, 22% expanded gestational limits at one or more clinics beyond the maximum gestational age documented in 2024.
“When abortion radicals lost the federal safety net of Roe, they doubled down, finally saying the quiet part out loud,” says Newman. “After decades of claiming to simply want abortion to be ‘rare and legal,’ there has been a no holds barred push to enshrine abortion through all nine months in every state constitution and push past every legal limit, expanding late-term abortions on one end of the spectrum and erasing any idea of a gestational cut-off for abortion pills at the other end of that spectrum. When all the rhetoric is laid aside, abortion radicals really want just one thing: more abortion, in every state, at every stage of pregnancy.”
LifeNews Note: This article was originally published by Operation Rescue, a leading pro-life, Christian activist organization dedicated to exposing abortion abuses, demanding enforcement, saving innocent lives, and building an abortion-free America. The author, Ricardo Pinedo, writes for Operation Rescue.
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