The following comes from a Dec. 2 story on LifeSiteNews.com.
More babies are alive today thanks to state laws restricting abortion and the closure of abortion facilities, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC released its annual report on abortion on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. In all, U.S. abortionists performed 765,651 abortions in 2010 in the states that report abortion numbers – a moderate decrease from 2009, the report stated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, released the day after Thanksgiving, says “the availability of abortion providers” and “state regulations” lowered the abortion rate nationwide.
The official document listed regulations on abortion, such as waiting periods and notification laws, as among the first items responsible for the reduction.
“Multiple factors are known to influence the incidence of abortion,” the report states. These include “the availability of abortion providers” and “state regulations, such as mandatory waiting periods, parental involvement laws, and legal restrictions on abortion providers.”
“I think the CDC is finally recognizing that common sense safety laws that are aimed at protecting women from shoddy or unscrupulous abortion practices are having the effect of closing substandard clinics and decreasing the numbers of abortions,” Cheryl Sullenger, senior policy adviser at Operation Rescue, told LifeSiteNews.com.
If true, abortion numbers should nosedive in the next few years. BusinessWeek reports that 73 abortion facilities have closed their doors since 2011.
“The absence of an abortion clinic gives women time to think through their situations and seek other alternatives to…running down to the local abortion clinic,” Sullenger told LifeSiteNews.
A surge of new laws enacted since 2010 gave women information they needed to make an informed choice and time enough to make their decision, according to the legislators that introduced them.
Although rigorous data are hard to find, anecdotal evidence suggests that as the laws multiplied, abortions have ratcheted down.
Arizona provides a textbook example. In 2009 the state enacted the “Abortion Consent Act,” which requires a notarized parental signature before a minor may have an abortion, as well as giving women medically accurate information 24 hours before the procedure.
When the law took effect – after a protracted court battle – the number of abortion providers reduced by 30 percent, and the abortion rate dropped 32 percent in one month, according to the Associated Press.
Neighboring Texas has a similar history. The New England Journal of Medicine reported in 2011 that a Texas law requiring abortions at 16 weeks or later to be performed in an ambulatory surgical center reduced the number of abortions performed at or after 16 weeks by 88 percent. Texans had a total of 2,000 fewer abortions.
“As the numbers from 2012 and 2013 come in, we can expect to be a dramatic decrease in the number of abortions nationwide, since this is when the flood of pro-life legislation as a result of conservative gains in the 2010 midterm elections goes into effect,” Sullenger told LifeSiteNews.
In 2011, the nation passed a record-setting 83 pro-life laws restricting abortion and setting more stringent requirements for abortionists, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
The second highest number of pro-life laws passed in 2012, as governments enacted 43 new statutes….
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Abortion never stops. It goes underground. Deaths increase…no data….swept under the rug…ignorance wins again. Right wingers are all warm and fuzzy. Pathetic is a very nice way to look at it, sorry to say.
Dustin you are gravely wrong. Can you please picture the slaughter of babies! Picture broken limps all do to your precious word abortion. Underground? How foolish to say the least. In California there are new bills that have no regulations on abortions….women are now more in danger. But Frankly I am very concerned for the death unborn babies, because they did not choose to be aborted and they were not given the blessing to live and be born etc. There are NO winners in abortion! NONE! But there are many accomplices to abortion, that I see!
Although the numbers of clinical abortions are beginning to trend downward in the most desireable direction, and for good causes so explained by the CDC, are they misleading in regards to our baby citizens still in the womb? What are the total number of babies dying each year on account of unnatural causes like the morning-after pill and abortificants including abortions?
Excellent point made Jeanie. Also the numbers are not low enough….just one abortion is way too many!
Is TU-486 included in the abortion numbers.
Good news, BUT—-I don’t think California was included in the numbers.
Abortion mills in CA are NOT required to report numbers. With their new Non-physician surgical abortionists penetrating the state, Planned Parenthood will increase the expansion of their business operation. Currently, they are opening new sites. With their tentacles into the schools and the Latina /Black/Minority communities, they will decidely increase the number of abortions.
Never forget —that the goal of Planned Parenthood is not women’s health, but population control.
Maybe this article is just there to give people hope but the reality is a staggering delusion, and perhaps a false sense of hope for now. Abortion is not seen as murder by many. So what difference does it make. Our morals are still declining and people of like mindedness are not finding enough of the support and edification that they need to persevere.
What’s gonna stop or slow down abortion is wisdom and knowledge in the Lord, fear of the Lord etc…….and helping people know the truth about the unborn….it is a baby no matter what others say. It feels, it screams when it is being butchered to death. Exposing more and more on what it also does to women and their minds and health….also helps. But the root of the issue is morals…if one fears the Lord, they surely would think twice before they volunteer to walk in to an abortion clinic to abort/murder their child.