3 things to consider about #WeCount’s latest report showing abortion increase
#WeCount – a pro-abortion project Family Planning Society (SFP), that funded through David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Buffett Foundation, which both have invested on abortion pill maker Danco – recently updated data which aims to compare the number of abortions in the US before and after the Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizationthat turned upside down Roe v. Wade.
Although in the organization previous report showed a general decrease in the number of abortions performed after theDobbs, its current report shows the opposite, claiming a cumulative increase of 2,200 abortions per month. It is rotated by different media outlets as evidence that pro-life laws are ineffective.
But does the evidence support this conclusion? Here are some reasons to view this report with skepticism:
1. Limited accuracy and comprehensiveness
It should be noted that there are limitations to the accuracy and comprehensiveness of the data presented. SFP confess that only 82% of the abortion facilities they knew provided data for this report. Data are calculated (estimated) for the remaining 18%. The SFP further admitted that it cannot consider so-called “self-managed” abortions, where it defines as “any attempt to terminate a pregnancy outside the formal health care system, including the use of drugs, herbs or others, or obtaining pills from friends or online without clinical assistance.”
2. Unequal comparison
As Charlotte Lozier Institute Research Associate Dr. Michael New mentionedSFP compared the one-year cost of post-Dobbs data in only one two months‘ amount of pre-Dobbs data. The pre-Dobbs the data used represent “a small number of datapoints,” New told Live Action News. “The number of abortions performed in these months may not represent the number of abortions performed in other months prior to Dobbs decision. I would have more confidence in their data if they compared a year’s worth of post-Dobbs data on a year’s worth of pre-Dobbs data,” concluded New.
Also new is Dr taught that “Texas and Oklahoma already have strong pro-life laws in place Dobbs. As a result, abortions in these states subsequently decline Dobbs looks less dramatic.”
3. Dramatic declines in pro-life states
The SFP report itself asserted that “States with abortion bans experienced the greatest reductions in the number of abortions. Among states with total abortion bans, there were a combined 94,930 fewer clinician-provided abortions in the year since Dobbs,” added, “This change represents a 100% decrease in the number of abortions, compared to pre-Dobbs 2022 and June 2023.”
The report also notes that states with legal abortion laws saw the largest increase in the number of abortions performed within their borders during this period.
In other words, contrary to the media hype, the SFP report shows that Pro-life laws save liveswhile pro-abortion laws unsurprisingly lead to an increase in premature deaths due to abortion.
This finding was bolstered by comparisons of Texas birth data before and after the implementation of that state’s heartbeat act in 2021. Analyzes of that data conducted by Charlotte Lozier Institute and the Journal of the American Medical Association both showed an increase in births in Texas to more than 1,000 per month.
Conclusion
It is impossible to know exactly how many abortions are performed in the United States for many reasons, not the least of which are the activities of organizations such as Access to Help, which operate outside normal regulatory structures and do not report the number of abortions they are responsible for to organizations like SFP. In addition, there are no federal laws which require the reporting of abortion statistics, and state laws vary.
what are we Possible it is safe to conclude, however, that pro-life laws accomplish what they set out to accomplish – namely, a significant increase in the number of lives saved from abortion.
