The Supreme Court’s repeal of the Roe v. Wade decision in 2022 was greeted as a calamity by people who champion the right to abortions, which certainly includes the national media. But now National Public Radio found some happy news: the number of abortions in America is up!
That’s according to the Guttmacher Institute, a former Planned Parenthood project that now describes itself as a “global action-oriented think tank dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights.” That makes them automatically reliable to the press, although pro-life advocates will also use their data to make their points (since it’s already treated as the primary source).
On Tuesday's Morning Edition, NPR’s feminist journalist Selena Simmons-Duffin filed a perfect press release for the pro-abortion forces. There was no pro-life dissent allowed. Inside their taxpayer-funded liberal bubble, NPR believes conservative arguments are overwhelmingly “bad faith” arguments that make America worse.
Guttmacher scientist Isaac Maddow-Zimet told NPR they estimate there were 1,026,700 abortions in 2023. By their measurement, that's the highest number in over a decade, and the first time there have been over a million abortions provided in the U.S. formal health care system since 2012
Taking pills to kill the babies is all the rage. The Guttmacher report also found that “medication abortions” rose to 63 percent of all abortions in 2023, up from 53 percent in 2020. There’s no praying protesters to face in your mailbox.
Abortion pills procured through “tele-medicine” appointments over the internet are up, but there’s also an increase in “medication abortions” at “brick and mortar” clinics as well.
Dr. Anitra Beasley of Baylor – who didn’t take part in the study, but is a donor to Democrats in Texas, including Robert “Beto” O’Rourke – told NPR "This is probably an undercount because they are not looking at abortions that happen outside of the formal health care system," like getting abortion pills from a friend, or acquiring them from Mexico. Stealthy abortions evade the statisticians.
The pro-life side was briefly mentioned, since “anti-abortion rights plaintiffs” will argue at the Supreme Court that the Food and Drug Administration incorrectly decided to “simplify access” to mifepristone, one of two drugs in the pharmaceutical abortion cocktail.
Maddow-Zimet underlined the abortion lobby’s preference for describing murders as “care.” The Court could “create potentially more of that confusion and difficulty for people both providing care and needing to access care." The baby isn’t accessing “care” in an abortion.
