Guttmacher is now estimating that there were 1,026,690 abortions in the United States in 2023, the first full year after Dobbs.
Guttmacher Says Abortions Increased After Dobbs
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Tax-Funded PBS, NPR Eagerly Push Planned Parenthood ‘Study’ of Rapes and Abortion
By Tim Graham PBS and NPR are funded by taxpayers – federal, state, and local. But they’re “owned” by the Left. Look no further than a very biased Planned Parenthood study fishing numbers out of the air to assert that there were more than 64,000 “people” who became...
Fifty Years of Abortion in America
Abortion Statistics Before and After Dobbs By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Before Dobbs, there was one critical benchmark in U.S. abortion history – January 22nd, 1973, the date Roe v. Wade was decided, legalizing abortion on...
Abortion statistics: United States data and trends
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2016 abortion statistics highlight the brutal reality of the abortion industry in England and Wales
Editor’s note. The following comes from our friends at SPUC--the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and is reposted with permission. The 2016 Abortion Statistics for England and Wales were published today, and they serve to highlight the horrendous impact...
Abortion numbers in decline across Minnesota—except at Planned Parenthood
By Paul Stark Editor’s note. Previously we ran an initial overview of the abortions statistics in Minnesota for 2015. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) explained, “Abortion numbers have dropped in eight of the last nine years in Minnesota to their lowest...
501 fewer babies lost to abortion in Arizona in 2014
By Dave Andrusko The Arizona Department of Health Services is reporting the welcomed news that there was a 3.7% decline in the number of abortions in 2014. In absolute numbers there were 501 fewer abortion deaths--12,900 abortions versus the 13,401 reported abortions...
Claim that “One in Three” women will have abortion by age 45 receives “Two Pinocchios” from Washington Post
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research You’ve heard it before. The claim that “one in three” women will have an abortion by age 45. You may even remember earlier iterations that had it as high as 43%. And you probably said to yourself,...
Parental Notification law reduces teen abortions in Minnesota
By Paul Stark MINNEAPOLIS — Teen abortions in Minnesota have declined dramatically since the state enacted a law 25 years ago requiring parental notification before minors undergo abortions. The law (MN Statute 144.343), strongly supported by Minnesota Citizens...
Is it true that everyone supports fewer abortions?
By Dave Andrusko This will be a kind of good news/in spite of the good news post. Allow me to explain. The title of the relatively short story was just four [encouraging] words long: “States report declining abortions.” And the first paragraph? The first paragraph was...