New figures show that the number of abortions increased during the first six months of 2023, compared to the same period in 2020, when the procedure was legal throughout the country.
The numbers cast doubt on the effectiveness of states’ restrictions on abortion since the Supreme Court ended a national right to the procedure in June 2022.
“It’s a signal that it’s harder to enforce bans than people in the pro-life movement hope,” Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, and a leading historian of the legal abortion debate, told The Washington Times. “Focusing on banning pills and out-of-state travel will only make Americans ignore the laws, just like they did with alcohol during Prohibition.”
“Overall, plenty of data collected since the [Supreme Court] decision show that thousands of lives have been saved by strong state-level, pro-life laws,” said Michael New, an assistant professor of social research at the Catholic University of America and scholar at the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute. “As such, pro-lifers would do well to stay the course.”
In June, the Society of Family Planning estimated 25,640 fewer abortions nationwide between July 2022 and March 2023 than during the three months before the ruling. The pro-choice group based its report on a growing database it has assembled of abortion providers nationwide. “I’m going to guess the numbers are even higher because, whenever something gets criminalized, it goes underground and some of it won’t get reported,” Ms. Ziegler said.
Between September 2021 and January 2022, the number of abortions in the Lone Star State dropped by 10,000, he found.
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