Alabama's abortion ban, which permits abortion only when the mother's life is at risk or the unborn child has lethal abnormalities, resulted in only three abortions performed in the state in 2025. However, over 1800 women traveled out of Alabama to obtain abortions elsewhere during the same year.

Six former employees of Planned Parenthood Southeast, which serves Alabama among other states, have filed a federal lawsuit claiming they were wrongfully fired for opposing leadership policies that shifted focus away from abortion rights and LGBTQ issues. The lawsuit alleges discriminatory practices and a rebranding effort under former CEO Mairo Akposé that led to dismissals after internal complaints, prompting an ongoing investigation and Akposé's resignation.

Since the Dobbs decision in 2022, Alabama has seen a 60% increase in crisis pregnancy center openings, with centers evolving into comprehensive agencies offering material support, counseling, and medical services. The Women’s Resource Center in southwestern Alabama has expanded services to include parenting classes, mental health counseling, STI screenings, and community education to better support women and families in the state.

The Alabama Supreme Court's 2024 IVF decision extended personhood to human embryos for the purpose of a 'Wrongful Death of a Minor' lawsuit, bringing IVF, surrogacy, and infertility issues to the forefront of national discussion. As political parties positioned themselves as 'pro-parent, pro-IVF,' many evangelicals began to reconsider their views on these topics, questioning the assumption that IVF is inherently pro-life because it creates life.

The Lozier Institute provides abortion reporting data specific to Alabama for the year 2025. This report focuses on abortion statistics and trends within Alabama.

Fight for Alabama Families presented U.S. Senator Katie Britt with its Pro-Family Champion Award in Washington, D.C., recognizing her efforts to protect access to IVF in Alabama and nationwide following the Alabama Supreme Court's 2024 embryo ruling.

The attorneys general of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama have taken shield law states to the Supreme Court over the trafficking of chemical abortion pills into pro-life states, alleging these actions break state laws. This legal action involves Alabama directly through its attorney general's participation in the case against the distribution of abortion pills across state lines.

The appropriate, pro-life response to the Alabama ruling is not to gut Louisiana’s IVF laws. Rather, it is to recognize that ultimately, it is up to the industry to avoid another “Alabama situation” by maintaining standards that would have prevented the events that led to the Court case in the first place, and to reinforce those standards through legislative action that establishes, maintains, and reinforces accountability. Sen. Pressly’s bill does the opposite.

Alabama’s 2024 abortion report was published online by the Alabama Department of Public Health in September 2025, showing that only three abortions at brick-and-mortar facilities in the state were reported to the Department. After Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, the state immediately started enforcing its prohibition on abortions within the state except […] The post Abortion Reporting: Alabama (2024) appeared first on Lozier Institute .