The Average Cost to Kill a Baby in an Abortion in America is $649

For the last decade, Operation Rescue has tracked the average cost of first-trimester abortions. This statistic best predicts what the average woman might pay since the overwhelming majority of abortions take place in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

In 2025, the average cost of a first-trimester abortion rose from $605 to $649 – the highest average cost ever documented, and the largest increase overall ($44), in the last ten years.

This average includes surgical, medical, and telemedicine abortion prices from brick-and-mortar abortion clinics only. Virtual suppliers will be addressed further down in this section.

Looking at individual types of abortions, the average cost of a surgical abortion jumped from $682 to $756, while the average cost of a medical abortion saw a less dramatic increase, $603 to $622.

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The price of telemedicine abortions (offered by brick-and-mortar clinics) also went up. In 2023 and 2024, telemedicine abortions were around $530. In 2025, the cost rose to $570.

Overall, only eleven states saw a decrease in pricing, the most dramatic being Nebraska, which saw an individual decrease of $242. Nebraska was one of the few states to defeat a pro-abortion amendment in 2024, passing a pro-life amendment instead that constitutionally protects babies in the womb after the first trimester.

“With over half of Nebraska voters choosing life,” says Newman, “perhaps abortion businesses can’t find enough customers, forcing them to slash prices. Elections really do matter, and pro-life voters can make a meaningful difference when they show up to the polls.”

The majority of remaining states saw a rise in abortion pricing. Two other states and the District of Columbia experienced the largest hikes: in Iowa, an overall increase of $147; in Connecticut, an overall increase of $188; and in D.C., an overall increase of $203.

Concerning Planned Parenthood, the abortion giant once again kept pricing for surgical abortions slightly lower than those of independent clinics. In 2025, Planned Parenthood charged 10% less for surgical abortions, almost the same difference as in 2024. However, the gap between medical abortions at Planned Parenthood versus independent clinics seems to be closing. Whereas in 2024 medical abortions were 4% cheaper at Planned Parenthood, in 2025 that difference was only 1% – barely noticeable.

Telemedicine at Planned Parenthood saw the biggest change. In 2024, Planned Parenthood charged 14% more for telemedicine at brick-and-mortar clinics than independent clinics. In 2025, that gap doubled, with Planned Parenthood charging 28% more for telemedicine than independent clinics.

“Telemedicine abortions drastically reduce the time and resources an abortion business has to spend on a customer, while still increasing its profits,” says Newman. “Judging by their current pricing model, no one knows this better than Planned Parenthood – and no one is trying harder to make the biggest profit.”

Operation Rescue also tracks the prices of virtual suppliers, which are separated into two subcategories: fully virtual and virtual hybrid. A fully virtual clinic has no physical building; it operates exclusively online via a website, while a hybrid virtual either has a physical location but no in-person services, or offers virtual services but requires the customer to pick up abortion pills in person.

When comparing abortion pricing between virtual suppliers and brick-and-mortar clinics, telemedicine at a brick-and-mortar clinic is the most expensive at $570. Virtual hybrids are not much different in pricing, with an average of $561. Fully virtual suppliers are the absolute cheapest at $375.

It is also important to note that every category saw an increase in the overall average cost of abortion – surgical, medical, telemedicine, and virtual. Knowing what a difficult economy Americans are facing, one might call these “inflation abortions.”

Last year, Operation Rescue discovered that 43% of virtual suppliers (fully virtual and hybrid) do not require any kind of video or phone call with the abortionist. That percentage dropped slightly to 37% in 2025. However, even with a 6% decrease, over one-third of virtual suppliers still recklessly remove any real way of verifying if the person on the other end of a string of texts or emails has been truthful about who they are, how far along they are in pregnancy, or if they want the pills for a nefarious reason.

This lack of accountability or scrutiny is made evident in the breakdown of pricing for virtual suppliers that do require some kind of personal interaction (phone or video) and those who require nothing, willing to sell abortion pills to any buyer that manages to fill out the online form. The first has an average cost of $510, while the second has an average cost of just $217.

The cost of $217 for abortion pills without any kind of telemed visit did increase from the 2024 average, which was $179, but it still remains the cheapest – and most dangerous – way for women to obtain abortion pills.

“The more you’re willing to risk, the less money you’ll have to pay,” Newman comments. “That’s the message the FDA allowed and fully endorsed to women when it removed common sense regulations like a required in-person visit for the abortion drug mifepristone.”

Abortion pills through a telemed visit are already incredibly dangerous. Even with a video call, there is no ultrasound required to verify gestational age or rule out complications like ectopic pregnancy. And abortionists know it. Multiple Planned Parenthood regions, for example, force a woman to answer “Are you comfortable not having an ultrasound?” when scheduling a telemed appointment. She must answer “Yes” to proceed with scheduling, quickly placing liability on the woman if a complication goes undiagnosed.

Virtual suppliers that do not require any kind of telemed visit are endangering women even further. Not only is there no ultrasound performed, but an abortionist doesn’t even lay eyes on the person seeking the abortion pills, which fails to confirm if she’s nine weeks pregnant or nine months, or if “she” is actually an angry boyfriend who stole a woman’s ID and is ordering pills for nefarious purposes.

“In the last two years, alone, there have been multiple cases of men obtaining abortion pills online and dosing pregnant women,” adds Newman. “These cases have made national news. Furthermore, Operation Rescue carefully detailed this criminal activity in a special report regarding the dangers of unregulated abortion pills submitted directly to HHS Secretary RFK Jr. earlier this year. Still, nothing has been done by the FDA or HHS to deter these predators or hold virtual suppliers to any kind of accountability. It is unconscionable.”

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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