A new CDC report shows that abortions in America are falling as pro-life laws states are passing after Roe are saving babies from abortions. Currently, 17 states have pro-life laws protecting babies from abortion at conception or when their heartbeat can be detected.
The annual abortion surveillance report, published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shows abortions declined 2% in the United States in 2022.
The CDC doesn’t count abortions from every state, so the total number of abortions is below the actual total for the country, but it does compare the same 48 states to each other year after year so the data is instructive when it comes to ascertaining trends.
In 2022, a total of 613,383 legal abortions were reported by 48 areas. That’s lower than the estimated 1 million abortions that actually take place every year in America because the CDC doesn’t count California, the biggest state in the nation by population.
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Not only did the number of abortions decline, but the abortion rate – the percentage of pregnant women having abortions – has declined as well.
The abortion rate was 11.2 abortions per 1,000 women between ages 15 and 44 in 2022, a decrease of 3% from 11.6 abortions per 1,000 women the prior year, according to the CDC figures. Between 2013 and 2022, abortion rates decreased among all age groups except for women between ages 30 and 34.
Rates were lowest in Missouri and highest New Mexico. Missouri, in 2022, banned most all abortions while New Mexico allows killing babies in abortions up to birth.
The report found most babies killed in abortions, 78.6%, were killed at 9 weeks. More than half of abortions involved the dangerous abortion pill that has killed dozens of women.
Black women accounted for the highest percentage of abortions at 39.5% followed by white women at 31.9% and Hispanic women at 21.2%, according to the CDC numbers. Black women had the highest rate at 24.4 abortions per 1,000 women between ages 15 and 44 and white women had the lowest rate at 5.7 abortions per 1,000 women.
The CDC says 87.7 percent of abortions were done on babies of unmarried women.
