Indiana Abortions Drop 98% as Abortion Ban Saves Babies

State figures from multiple states with abortion bans show the bans are working as intended – protecting babies from abortions and allowing women to receive appropriate medical care instead.

Indiana’s official abortion report for the second quarter of 2024, released on August 29, reveals 27 reported abortions for April, May and June – the lowest quarterly level in Indiana since before Roe vs. Wade in 1973.

“The numbers represent a 98.6 percent drop in abortions compared to quarter two of last year, when Indiana’s abortion law was still blocked by the courts and 1,938 abortions were reported,” Indiana Right to Life tells LifeNews.com. “The drop from 2023 to 2024 represents 1,911 fewer babies aborted in Indiana in quarter two of 2024 versus quarter two of 2023.”

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The information in the new state health department report shows the following information:

• The majority of abortions were chemically induced (59%).
• Indiana’s abortion rate (abortions per number of females 15-44) in Q2 2024 was .02 compared to 1.17 in Q2 2023.
• The majority of abortions were done on women ages 25-34 (41%).
• The large majority of abortions were done on women with some college credit, associate, or bachelor’s degree (67% percent).
• Nearly two-thirds of women suffering abortion complications (63%) were reported as Black of African American.

The new data follows the release of similar abortion information from Texas.

The latest monthly report from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission on induced terminations of pregnancies (ITOP) released today shows that claims about medically necessary abortions in Texas abortion law by Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign are completely false.

Harris and her proxies claim that doctors cannot or are not willing to perform abortions in cases when the pregnancy endangers a woman’s life in Texas and other states with pro-life laws.

For example, when the Texas Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Texas’ pro-life laws in Zurawski v. Texas, Harris said, “This Texas Supreme Court ruling means women will continue to be denied access to necessary medical care, putting their health and lives at risk.” The latest data from the HHSC ITOP reports prove otherwise, showing that doctors in Texas performed 113 abortions to save pregnant women’s lives or health in the first 22 months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

From July 2022 through April 2024, reported elective abortions in Texas quickly dropped from thousands per month to zero. However, during this period, doctors reported performing 113 medically necessary abortions, with 11 reported in April, all in hospitals. The monthly average of reported abortions for medical necessity (to protect the life or health of the woman) after Dobbs is 5.1. That number is comparable to the monthly average before Dobbs (January 2022 through May 2022), which is 2.3.