page_title: Abortion in Hawaii
section_title: Clinic history
hierarchical_section_title: Abortion in Hawaii / History / Clinic history
caption_attribution_description: English: Number of abortion clinics in Hawaii by year. Created using data linked on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LauraHale/Template:Abortion_by_US_state .
context_page_description: Abortion in Hawaii is legal. 66% of adults said in a poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Hawaii began allowing abortion on demand de jure in 1970, the first state to do so. State law enacted at that time stated said, “the State shall not deny or interfere with a female’s right to choose or obtain an abortion of a nonviable fetus or an abortion that is necessary to protect the life or health of the female.”
  The number of abortion clinics in the state has been declining for years. There were 15 hospitals that performed abortions in 1970, 51 clinics in 1982, 52 clinics in 1992, six in 2011, four in 2014 and three in 2017. In 2017, women in rural parts of the state had trouble accessing abortion services because of lack of clinics and costs to travel. There were 3,643 abortions in 1970, 2,147 in 2014 and 3,200 in 2017. Public funding existed for abortions for poor women using state Medicaid funding. People in Hawaii participated in the #StoptheBans movement in May 2019.
context_section_description: Abortions in 1970 were required to take place in a hospital.  They cost around US$350, and 57.5% of women used personal funds or loans to cover the cost of their abortion. In 1970, the first year that abortion was legal in the state, abortions were performed at fifteen hospitals. Between 1982 and 1992, the number of abortion clinics in the state increased by one, going from 51 in 1982 to 52 in 1992. In 2011, there were only six clinics in the state, partly a result of the lack of doctors more generally in the state. In 2014, there were four abortion clinics in the state. In 2014, 40% of the counties in the state did not have an abortion clinic. That year, 5% of women in the state aged 15 – 44 lived in a county without an abortion clinic. By 2017, there were only 3 clinics left.
  In 2017, 28 facilities in Hawaii provided abortion care with 4 of those facilities being clinics, including two Planned Parenthood clinics. Despite a demand on Kauai, an island of 67,000 people, there were no abortion clinics there in 2017.  Of Hawaii's eight major islands, only two islands have abortion clinics.
  Telehealth abortion services are currently available in Hawaii. Patient seeking a medical abortion are evaluated by a clinician using video conferencing. This service allows many women seeking abortion to avoid inter-island travel to an abortion clinic.
caption: Number of abortion clinics in Hawaii by year
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