They said it.
In England and Wales in 2019:
one in five abortions are carried out at seven weeks (picture below)
one in 5 at 8 weeks (pictures below)
nearly one in 10 at nine weeks,
and the same percentage between 10 and 12 weeks
S. Nye Whose Child? UK Abortion, a Gospel Matter (undated) 31
Share on FacebookA report on abortion from The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Reproductive Health Services said the following:
“In the immediate years after national legalization, both the number and rate of legal abortion steadily increased. The abortion rate peaked in the 1980s, and the trend then reversed, a decline that has continued for more than three decades. Between 1980 and 2014, the abortion rate among US women fell by more than half, from 29.3 to 14.6 per 1000 women.
In 2014, the most recent year for which data are available, the aggregate number of abortions reached a low of 926,190 after peaking at nearly 1.6 million in 1990.
The reason for the decline is not fully understood but has been attributed to several factors, including…increasing numbers of state regulations resulting in limited access to abortion services.”
The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Reproductive Health Services The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2018) 26 – 28
Share on FacebookFrom a report on abortion in the United States:
“Today, aspiration is the most common abortion method used in the United States, accounting for almost 68% of abortions performed overall in 2013.
Its use, however, is likely to decline as the use of medication abortion increases. The percentage of total abortions by the medication method rose from 10.6 to 22.3% between 2004 and 2013. In 2014, approximately 45% of abortions up to nine weeks’ gestation were medication abortions, up from 36% in 2011.
Fewer than 9% of abortions are performed after 13 weeks’ gestation – typically by D&E. In 2013, approximately 2% of US abortions at 14 weeks’ gestation or later were induction procedures.”
The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Reproductive Health Services: The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2018) 5
In 2016, a poll was conducted that measured what percentage of the population agreed with different reasons women had abortions. These are the results:
The woman’s health is seriously endangered: 85% approve, 11% disapprove
The woman is pregnant as a result of rape: 75% approve, 21% disapprove
There is a strong chance of serious fetal defect: 72% approve, 24% disapprove
the woman is married and wants no more children: 45% approve, 51% disapprove
The woman wants an abortion for any reason: 44% approve, 51% disapprove
The woman cannot afford more children: 43% approve, 54% disapprove
The woman is unmarried: 41% approve, 56% disapprove
Tom W Smith, et al. “General Social Surveys, 1972 – 2016” retrieved June 6, 2017, in Ziad Munson Abortion Politics (Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2018) 66
Share on FacebookA Gallup poll in July 2011 gather the following statistics:
⦁ 26% of respondents believed abortion should be legal under any circumstances; 51% believed abortion should be legal only under certain circumstances, and 20% believe abortion should be illegal in all circumstances.
⦁ 87% favored a law requiring doctors to inform women about possible risks of abortion before performing the procedure, whereas 11% opposed such a law.
⦁ 50% favored a law requiring that a woman seeking an abortion be shown an ultrasound image of her fetus at least 24 hours before the procedure, whereas 46% opposed such a law.
⦁ 71% favored a law requiring parental consent for a minor to get an abortion, whereas 27% opposed such a law.
⦁ 69% favored a law requiring a 24 hour waiting period to get an abortion, whereas 28% opposed such a law.
⦁ 57% opposed a law prohibiting health clinics that provide abortion services from receiving any federal funds, whereas 40% favored such a law.
⦁ 47% of those polled consider themselves pro-choice, and 47% consider themselves pro-life.
Teresa LeGault 2020 Sentiments of an American Woman: The History and Future of Women and Abortion (100X Publishing, 2020) 124 – 125
Share on Facebook“A nationwide study found that although 97% of OB-Gyns had encountered a patient seeking abortion at some point in their practice, just 14% do abortions.”
The study cited was Stulberg, Debra B., et al. “Abortion Provision Among Practicing Obstetrician–Gynecologists.” Obstetrics & Gynecology, vol. 118, no. 3, Sept. 2011, p. 609, doi:10.1097/aog.0b013e31822ad973
KATIE GLENN, J.D ““At-Home Abortion” is a Poison Pill” in Catherine Glenn Foster, Steven H. Aden, ed. UNSAFE: America’s Abortion Industry Endangers Women (Americans United for Life, 2021)
Share on FacebookPro-choice author Johanna Schoen wrote that in the late 1970s:
“… Legalization made abortion into the…most widely performed surgical procedure in the United States.”
Johanna Schoen Abortion after Roe (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University Of North Carolina Press, 2015) 25
She cites:
Willard Cates Jr. and David A Grimes “Morbidity and Mortality of Abortion in the United States” in Abortion and Sterilization: Medical and Social Aspects, Jane E Hodgson, ed. (New York: Grune and Stratton, 1981) 155
Share on FacebookHow many abortions are performed worldwide?
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the number of abortions performed in the world each year is estimated as 46 million (126,000 per day.)
Cited in Philip J Calef Being Honest about ABORTION…and other life-and-death issues (Kearney, Nebraska, 2007) 46
In the 1980s, abortion was more common than it is today. One source in 1989 wrote:
“It is indisputable that abortion has become embedded in American society. Some 1.6 million abortions are performed each year; thus, 30% of all pregnancies in this country are voluntarily terminated. This places the United States near the top of industrialized nations in the percentage of aborted pregnancies. In Canada, the figure is 14%. In the Soviet Union, where contraceptive technology is often ineffective and not widely available, the rate soars to 68% of pregnancies.”
The San Diego Union – Tribune, May 7, 1989
Quoted in Oliver Trager Abortion: Choice & Conflict (New York: Facts on File, 1993) 15
The many pro-life laws enacted since 1989 may play a role in the decreased number of abortions committed today.
African-American author Elisha J Israel revealed the following statistics in his book:
“In 2008, according to the Guttmacher Institute, there were 1.21 million abortions in the United States and 30% of these were performed on African-American women. In this year African-American women averaged 994 abortions per day. To put this in perspective, in the years between 1882 and 1968, known as the “Lynching Century”, the Tuskegee Institute recorded 3466 lynchings of African-Americans. Today, through abortion that number 3446 is surpassed in about 4 days… In any given year since 1973, the number of abortions surpassed the amount of deaths of the 10 leading causes of death for African Americans. Since 1973, more black lives have died from abortion than for deaths resulting from heart disease, violent crime, HIV/AIDS, cancer, accidents, and diabetes combined.”
Elisha J Israel Killing Black Innocents (2017)96
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