By Katarina White |

Before Arizona voters passed a constitutional amendment in 2024 to legalize abortion up until birth, the state’s abortion laws still had some guardrails in place—things like parental consent, waiting periods, and informed consent. But even with those protections, the 2023 Abortion Report shows how far the abortion industry had already entrenched itself in our state.

In 2023 alone, 12,705 surgical abortions were performed across seven reported facilities in Arizona. This number does not include chemical abortions, which are increasingly common and more difficult to track in detail.

Two Planned Parenthood facilities—in Tempe and Flagstaff—do not appear in the report because they were not fully operational in 2023 and did not perform surgical abortions. However, both clinics are now fully open and positioned to expand services under Arizona’s new constitutional amendment declaring abortion a “fundamental right.”

These facilities weren’t included in the 2023 data—but they will be moving forward. And with surgical and chemical abortions alike being completely accessible, the number of lives lost will certainly rise.

These aren’t just statistics. These are real buildings where children lost their lives—some within walking distance of the State Capitol.

Here are the seven facilities listed in the 2023 report:

• Camelback Family Planning – 4,295 abortions
  4141 N 32nd St. STE 105, Phoenix, AZ 85018 – 5.84 miles from the Arizona State Capitol
• Family Planning Associated Medical Group – 2,644 abortions
  1331 N 7th St. Unit 225, Phoenix, AZ 85006 – 2.17 miles
• Acacia Women’s Center – 2,355 abortions
  2023 W Bethany Home Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85015 – 5.12 miles
• Choices Women’s Center – 1,148 abortions
  5240 E Knight Dr, #112, Tucson, AZ 85712 – 108.26 miles
• Planned Parenthood Glendale Health Center – 1,422 abortions
  5771 W Eugle Ave, Glendale, AZ 85304 – 10.38 miles
• Planned Parenthood Southern Arizona Regional Health Center – 552 abortions
  2255 N Wyatt Dr, Tucson, AZ 85712 – 108.71 miles
• Desert Star Family Planning, LLC – 264 abortions
  5501 N 19th Ave #420, Phoenix, AZ 85015 – 4.74 miles

And here are the two locations not included in the 2023 report—but now fully operational and likely to contribute to higher abortion totals in future reports:

• Planned Parenthood – Flagstaff
  2500 S Woodlands Village Blvd, Suite 12, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 – 149.3 miles
• Planned Parenthood – Tempe
  1837 E Baseline Rd, Tempe, AZ 85283 – 13.1 miles

In 2023, Arizona recorded 77,881 live births. But alongside that hope, 12,705 babies were surgically aborted—and that’s just what we can confirm. That means over 14% of pregnancies in Arizona ended in death rather than life. With new clinics now open and constitutional protections in place, there is every reason to believe that number will rise sharply in 2025 and beyond.

Let’s be clear—this is not about “empowering women.” The abortion industry has stalked poor and minority communities for decades, flooding their neighborhoods with clinics and pushing abortion as a solution to poverty. They’ve told vulnerable women that ending the life of their own child is liberation. They’ve called this “healthcare.” They’ve called it “compassion.”

It’s none of those things.

They don’t offer housing. They don’t offer prenatal support. They don’t offer stability or hope. They offer a suction machine and a billing invoice—and they call that freedom.

Friedrich Nietzsche warned of what happens when societies lose their moral clarity:

“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly.”

That is precisely what we are witnessing now. Arizona didn’t become more just when it added abortion to the Constitution. It became more dangerous, more dishonest. It wrapped violence in the language of rights and stripped away the last legal defenses for the most defenseless people among us.

This is not progress. This is exploitation—and it’s protected now by law.

The abortion industry and its political allies think the people of Arizona will look the other way. That we’ll adjust. That we’ll stop being horrified. But we won’t. We will keep pointing out the numbers. We will keep naming the buildings. We will keep exposing the lies.

And we will not stop until the killing ends—and Arizona remembers what it means to protect life.

Katarina White serves as Board Member for Arizona Right to Life. To get involved and stay informed, visit the Arizona Right to Life website.