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Despite Media Claims, Abortions Likely Haven’t Dropped in 2025. Here’s Why… by Nancy Flanders – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Despite Media Claims, Abortions Likely Haven’t Dropped in 2025. Here’s Why… by Nancy Flanders

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By Nancy Flanders, Live Action, Oct 6, 2025

Despite media claims, abortions likely haven’t dropped in 2025. Here’s why.

While preliminary data from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute estimates that in the first six months of 2025, there was a five percent (5%) decline in “clinician-provided abortions” in states that do not have laws protecting all children from abortion, there is good reason to doubt these numbers..

The preliminary data estimates (collected far differently than before the reversal of Roe v. Wade) also show an eight percent (8%) decline in abortions in pro-abortion states for women traveling from pro-life states.

But while media outlets claim this means the number of abortions is dropping for the first time since the end of Roe, at-home DIY abortions by pill are not declining. …