Key highlights from the report include:
- Based on data from the Guttmacher Institute and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)– and estimating figures for subsequent years (2018-2019)–National Right to Life now estimates 61,628,584 abortions have been performed in the United States since 1973.
- Utilizing data from the Guttmacher Institute and the CDC, National Right to Life estimates that the number of abortions has dropped to 862,320 annually – the lowest number recorded since 1973, and nearly 800,000 fewer than the all-time high of 1.6 million abortions in 1990. National Right to Life attributes continued pro-life educational, legislative, and political efforts with much of the overall decline seen over the past 30 years.
- State legislatures continue to be successful in enacting pro-life legislation that extends protections to unborn children and helps their mothers. These laws include protections for pain-capable unborn children, laws banning dismemberment abortions of living unborn babies, and efforts to steer state funding away from organizations that perform abortions, such as Planned Parenthood.
- Planned Parenthood, which reported over $1.6 billion in revenues in 2018-2019, while posting over $240 million in “excess revenue,” is estimated to have made nearly $160 million performing 345,672 abortions – over 40% of all abortions in the United States annually.
