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 performed in 2013. The news buttresses the overall decline in the number of … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Continuing a welcome pattern that extends back to 2001, there were fewer abortions in Ohio in 2014 than any year since the state began tracking the number of abortions in 1976. On Wednesday, the Ohio Department of Health released data showing there were 21,186 abortion in 2014, a 8.7% decline from 2013. … Read more
Sonya’s Law Delivers — Mother’s Informed, Babies Saved By Barbara Lyons, Retired Executive Director of Wisconsin Right to Life Sonya was a young mother of two – and now pregnant. She was thinking of having an abortion when she saw a bus sign sponsored by Eyewitness for Life offering a free ultrasound. In the caring … Read more
By Dave Andrusko National Right to Life President Carol Tobias The best news is the straightforward fact that in 2013 the fewest number of women in Utah had abortions than at any time since 1977. These encouraging results came about even though the number of women in their childbearing years has doubled in the … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research The government’s latest report confirms the good news reported by Guttmacher earlier this year. That not only the number of abortions in the U.S. have dropped to lows not seen since the earliest days of legal abortion in America, so, too, have abortion … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research It is not unexpected, given news of a large recent overall decline in U.S. abortions and abortion rates, but it is encouraging nonetheless to see that the larger downward trend among all women is also being reflected in significantly lower abortion rates among … Read more
WASHINGTON – A report released today by the Guttmacher Institute found that abortion rates and ratios are continuing to decline in the United States – but downplayed the role that public debate over the rights of unborn children have played in this trend. In its “Abortion Incidence and Service Availability in the United States, … Read more
By Dave Andrusko National Right to Life has already produced an outstanding analysis of the new abortion numbers provided by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. (See “New Guttmacher Study Ignores Impact of Public Debate Regarding Rights of Unborn on Abortion Rates“) Tomorrow, Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon, NRLC’s director of education, will provide NRL News Today … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research and Dave Andrusko, National Right to Life News Today editor Given the trends seen in recent national reports, National Right to Life now believes that there have been over 56 million abortions since 1973. One critical piece of evidence in that calculation arrived … Read more
By Dave Andrusko I was literally just watching a clip from “Up with Steve [Kornack],” a typical MSNBC agit-prop program, when the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute issued a report titled, “More State Abortion Restrictions Were Enacted in 2011–2013 Than in the Entire Previous Decade.” That came a few hours after I viewed a portion of … Read more