Category: Abortion Statistics

NRLC Analysis of New Abortion Reports, Part Four By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research National abortion figures attempt to show the direction of the country as a whole, but state numbers sometimes offer a more complete or at least more nuanced view of the trends and currents.  And differences between …

By Kim Schwartz, Texas Right to Life Abortions in Texas plummeted after the reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to new data released by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. State abortion statistics for July 2022, the first full month after Texas’ total protections for preborn children regained effect, reported 68 abortions. The same time period a …

NRLC Analysis of New Abortion Reports, Part Three By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Though recent statistics show the number of chemical or “medication” abortions rising, to the point that they now account for more than half of those performed in the U.S., those same statistics still indicate that the …

NRLC Analysis of New Abortion Reports: Part Two By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Perhaps nothing has altered America’s abortion landscape as much as chemical abortions, changing the public’s image and women’s perceptions of abortion, the way these are performed and delivered, and significantly, their widespread availability. Loosened government regulations …

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued its Abortion Surveillance report for 2020. It showed what appeared to be a drop of 2% in the number of abortions performed in the U.S. The CDC recorded 620,327 abortions from state health …

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its annual “Abortion Surveillance Report” for the year 2020. The numbers showed a decline in abortions from the 2019 survey and a continuing steady decline in abortion numbers since 2011. The numbers reported by the CDC are confusing when compared to …

By Oregon Right to Life The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) released its annual abortion numbers, this time for 2021 and the first half of 2022.  In a welcome development for pro-lifers, abortions in the Beaver State dropped from 6,991 in 2020 to 6,577 in 2021. Unsurprisingly, women from Multnomah County accounted for the vast majority …

By Dave Andrusko It comes from a pro-abortion source–#WeCount, a national research project lead by the Society of Family Planning—but they have provided invaluable information gauging the effect of the reversal of Roe v. Wade on the number of abortions in various states. We reported on the preliminary results in late October in a report …

By Michael Cook According to a pro-abortion research centre, there has been a dramatic decrease in abortions as state bans shut down abortion clinics in the two months after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. In July and August 2022, providers reported 5,270 and 5,400 fewer abortions per month, respectively, compared …

By Dave Andrusko The headline, no doubt, depressed Maggie Koerth and Amelia Thomson-DeVeauxis but it is a boon to pro-lifers and cause for jubilation: “Overturning Roe Has Meant At Least 10,000 Fewer Legal Abortions.”                                             Yes, that’s correct. “A data set shared exclusively with FiveThirtyEight shows that in the two months after the Supreme Court decision, there were 10,570 …

By Bettina di Fiore  Support After Abortion, an online organization devoted to helping people impacted by abortion find hope and healing, recently published the results of a study it commissioned, which was conducted by the group Shapard Research. The study surveyed 114 women who obtained chemical abortions (commonly referred to as “medication abortions”) about their …

COLUMBUS, Ohio— On September 30, the Ohio Department of Health released the 2021 Ohio Induced Abortion Report, revealing a substantial increase in the number of abortions since 2020. A total of 21,813 abortions were reported, up from 20,605 in 2020. Abortions were overwhelmingly performed on Black women, with that demographic undergoing 43.3% percent of all …