Category: Abortion Statistics

By Louisiana Right to Life There were 8,144 abortions in Louisiana in 2019, according to preliminary figures provided recently to Louisiana Right to Life by the Louisiana Department of Health. This is less than a 1 percent increase in the number of abortions from 2018, when 8,097 abortions were reported. Despite the slight increase in …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. This appears in the February digital edition of National Right to Life News. Please share this story and others from the latest edition of the “Pro-Life Newspaper of Record.” On January 22, 2020, the 47th anniversary of the wretched Roe v. Wade decision, NRLC published its 7th annual “State of …

By Carole Novielli The most recent data available shockingly reveals that in 2016, more Black babies were killed by abortion than were born in New York City. The data also shows that in 2016, Black abortions accounted for nearly 40 percent (38.7%) of all abortions in NYC. These alarming statistics reveal how abortion is decimating …

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research The fine folk from the University of California -San Francisco (UCSF) – long known as America’s Abortion Training Academy – are out with another installment of their “Turnaway Study,” a five-year-long study that was supposed to be designed to determine the social, psychological, and …

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 …