Statistics from states that have abortion bans show that they are working as intended, protecting babies from abortion and instead ensuring women have access to adequate medical care.
Indiana’s official second quarter 2024 abortion report, released Aug. 29, showed that 27 abortions were reported in April, May and June, the lowest quarterly level in Indiana since before Roe v. Wade in 1973.
“The numbers represent a 98.6 percent decrease in abortions compared to the second quarter of last year, when Indiana’s abortion law was still blocked by the courts and 1,938 abortions were reported,” Indiana Right to Life told LifeNews.com. “The decrease from 2023 to 2024 represents 1,911 fewer babies aborted in Indiana in the second quarter of 2024 compared to the second quarter of 2023.”
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The new state health department report provides the following information:
The majority of abortions were chemically induced (59%). Indiana’s abortion rate (abortions per number of women ages 15-44) in Q2 2024 was 0.02, down from 1.17 in Q2 2023. The majority of abortions were performed on women ages 25-34 (41%). The majority of abortions were performed on women with some college credit, an associate’s degree, or a bachelor’s degree (67%). Nearly two-thirds (63%) of women suffering from abortion complications reported being Black or African American.
The new data follows similar abortion information release from Texas.
The latest monthly abortion report from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (ITOP), released today, reveals that claims made by the Kamala Harris Presidential campaign regarding medically necessary abortions in Texas abortion law are completely false.
Harris and her attorneys argue that in Texas and other states with pro-life laws, doctors cannot or will not perform abortions if the pregnancy puts a woman’s life at risk.
For example, when the Texas Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Texas’ pro-life law in Zulawski v. Texas, Harris said, “This Texas Supreme Court decision means that women will continue to be denied necessary medical care and their health and lives will be put at risk.” The latest data from the HHSC ITOP report proves the opposite, showing that in the first 22 months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Texas physicians performed 113 abortions to save the life and health of pregnant women.
From July 2022 to April 2024, reported elective abortions in Texas plummeted from thousands per month to zero. However, during this period, physicians performed 113 medically necessary abortions, with 11 reported in April, all of which were performed in hospitals. The monthly average number of reported medically necessary abortions (to protect a woman’s life or health) after Dobbs is 5.1. This number is roughly equivalent to the monthly average (January 2022 to May 2022) of 2.3 before Dobbs.
