Category: Abortion Statistics

By Texas Right to Life January 22, 2020, marked the 47th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in all fifty states.  As the somber day approached, new analysis from National Right to Life estimates that 61,628,584 babies’ lives have ended through legal abortion in those 47 years.  This number represents close to 62 million …

Pregnancy Resource Centers provide alternatives HARRISBURG, Pa. – The number of abortions in Pennsylvania rose slightly in 2018, just over 1 percent, according to the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, an affiliate of National Right to Life. Over the past several years, abortion rates have trended mostly downward. In 2012, there were 34,536 abortions in Pennsylvania. Since …

By Dave Andrusko By the time you finish this post, I trust it will be clear why this is the third of what we four stories about the latest abortion figures from the Centers for Disease Control. For reasons known only to the CDC, it always releases its latest abortion analysis right around Thanksgiving—in this …

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Over the Thanksgiving holidays, the government released its latest report on abortion in America, confirming a welcomed long term downward trend in the numbers of abortions. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the number of abortions fell 2% from 2015 to …

By Dave Andrusko Today’s overview of abortion data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will be a first look at the very encouraging news that the number of abortions continue to drop. Later this week, Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon, NRLC’s director of education & research, will provide an in-depth analysis of the report that …

By Dave Andrusko I don’t think I qualify as even a hoarder-lite, but it is true that I have kept remembrances stashed away going all the way to high school! My beloved spouse asked me to go through a couple of boxes with the intent, no doubt, that, at best, I would throw most of …

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D, NRL Director of Education & Research In the report released Wednesday, the Guttmacher Institute reported the welcome news that the number of abortions in 2017 was 862,320, a 7% drop from 2014. The abortion rates and abortion ratios also declined. This has also been an era in which the number …