Abortions Improve as Abortion Capsules Flourish, Democrat States Fund Killing Infants
Last week the Society of Family Planning released updated abortion data through its #WeCount project. The latest update contains both state and national abortion data through the first six months of 2025. Unfortunately, the news is not good for pro-lifers.
According to the WeCount data, over 591,000 abortions were performed in the first six months of 2025. This represents a 1.1 percent increase when compared to the first six months of 2024.
The WeCount data provides some important information on how policy changes impact the incidence of abortion. Two state Medicaid programs have recently started to fund elective abortions. Nevada’s Medicaid program began covering elective abortions in mid-December of 2024, and Delaware’s Medicaid program started covering elective abortions as of January 1, 2025.
Unsurprisingly, there has been an uptick in abortions in both states. When the first six months of 2025 are compared with the last six months of 2024, both Nevada and Delaware saw their abortion numbers increase by between 8 and 10 percent. This is consistent with a broad body of political science, economics, and public health research that shows that taxpayer funding of abortion increases abortion rates.
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However, the main takeaway from this new WeCount data is that the percentage of abortions done via telehealth continues to increase.
In the first six months of 2024, just under 20 percent of all abortions were done via telehealth. That figure increased to 27 percent for the first six months of 2025. Telehealth abortions are undermining the strong pro-life laws that many states enacted in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision.
Preventing telehealth abortions needs to be a top priority for the pro-life movement. State attorneys general in Florida and Texas have recently sued the Food and Drug Administration over policy changes regarding chemical abortions. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also has brought a civil lawsuit against a New York physician who had allegedly sent chemical abortion pills to a woman in Texas.
LifeNews.com Note: Michael New is an assistant professor at the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America and a senior associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
