Abortions dropped by more than 11 percent in 2020 over the previous year, newly obtained figures show.
NewBostonPost filed a public records request to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to see how many abortions took place in the Commonwealth in 2019 and 2020. While there were 18,593 abortions in the Commonwealth in 2019, there were 16,452 in 2020 — a reduction of about 11.5 percent.
