Over 32,000 babies have been spared death at the hands of abortionists since Roe was overturned: Report

Hundreds of pro-life groups and institutions have been attacked by pro-abortion terror groups since the Supreme Court's June 24 ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade. While many are unlikely to see justice meted out, they can take comfort knowing that the decision that has made them targets simultaneously helped save thousands of babies' lives every month.

A new report from the Society of Family Planning, an international pro-abortion nonprofit, indicated that since the Dobbs decision, "compared to the average monthly number of abortions observed in the pre-Dobbs period, there were 32,260 cumulative fewer abortions from July to December [2022]."

While this decrease is not linear month to month, there were nevertheless fewer abortions in every month following the Supreme Court's ruling.

The Society of Family Planning report claimed that the national abortion rate fell from 13.2 per 1,000 women of reproductive age to 12.3 per 1,000 women following the Dobbs decision.

The most dramatic drops occurred in states with abortion bans in place, which "witnessed a cumulative total of 43,410 fewer people who had abortions."

The New York Times reported that most abortions are now banned in the following 13 states: Idaho, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas. In Georgia, abortion is prohibited after about six months of pregnancy. In Arizona and Florida, abortion is prohibited after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The gestational limit on abortions is 18 weeks in Utah, 20 weeks in North Carolina. Bans have been attempted but blocked in various other states.

Time magazine noted that in the aforementioned 13 states, there was a 96% drop in abortions from July to December as compared to those executed in April and May. In Georgia, the number of abortions reportedly dropped by 40%.

The largest declines were observed in Texas (15,540 fewer abortions), Georgia (10,930) fewer abortions), Tennessee (6,560 fewer abortions), Ohio (4,920 fewer abortions), Arizona (4,650 fewer abortions), and Louisiana (4,250 fewer abortions).

There was, however, a spike in killings (a cumulative total of 11,150 more) in states where abortion was permitted. Spikes were observed in the six-month period after the Dobbs decision in Florida (7,190), Illinois (6,840), North Carolina (4,730), Colorado (2,580), and Michigan (2,490).

Tessa Longbons, a research associate with the Charlotte Lozier Institute, told the Daily Caller that this report is evidence that pro-life laws are "saving lives" and "contributing to a drop in abortion nationwide."

"It means babies are being saved," said Longbons. "It means women are being protected from the harms of abortion."

FiveThirtyEight's Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux concurred, noting that "tens of thousands of people are either getting abortion pills through the gray market online - or just staying pregnant."

While optimistic, Longbons nevertheless highlighted that the number in the report "doesn't include the abortion pills that are being shipped illegally."

The report framed the drop in abortions in a negative light, suggesting that women now finding it inconvenient to exterminate their children "experience a variety of negative outcomes, including increased economic insecurity, poorer physical health, and continued exposure to violence from the man involved in the pregnancy."

The report makes no mention of the babies' lives potentially spared death at the hands of abortionists.

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