States officially recorded nearly 13,000 fewer abortions in the months after the Supreme Court returned citizens’ ability to protect unborn children, something that pro-life advocates say proves pro-life laws work. Yet the abortion industry carried out more than 600,000 abortions in 2022, including tens of thousands of abortions in the second or third trimester. While no mothers died from illegal abortions, five women died from “safe, legal” abortions in 2022. The data also showed nearly nine out of 10 abortions take place to mothers who become pregnant outside of wedlock. Overall, the U.S. government’s official tally shows a long-term reduction in the number, rate, and ratio of abortions over the last nine years.
The Biden administration’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) curiously released its annual compilation of abortion data, known as the abortion surveillance, on November 28 — Thanksgiving day. The CDC reports state-level data voluntarily submitted by 48 reporting areas: 46 states, New York City, and the District of Columbia.
The abortion industry carried out 613,383 recorded abortions in CDC-reporting areas during 2022, the CDC reports. That’s a decrease of 12,595 from the previous year, when the industry committed 625,978 abortions in the same locations, according to the 2021 abortion surveillance.
The 2022 report is the first to reflect the changed legal picture after the Dobbs decision. The landmark pro-life ruling, which took place on June of that year, returned the issue of abortion to democratic control and allowed states to once again protect children in the womb. By the end of the year, 22 states had implemented some law protecting babies from abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
Pro-Life Laws Work, Say Advocates
The Biden administration’s new report shows that 2022 broke the trend of rising abortions “[F]rom 2018 to 2019, increases of 1%–3% were observed across all measures,” it notes, while pro-life scholars trace a rise in abortions to the mid-2010s. The number of abortions rose 5% in 2021, while abortions fell by 2% in 2022. The CDC compared the 47 governments that had consistently reported data over the last decade and found, “[f]rom 2021 to 2022, the total number of abortions decreased 2% (from 622,108 total abortions)” to 609,360 — a difference of 12,748 abortions. The abortion rate also decreased by 3% in one year, to 11.2 per 1,000 women aged 15-44. […]
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