What pro-lifers can take away from Guttmacher's 2024 abortion data

[Michie]

While a pro-life researcher advised advocates to view the Guttmacher Institute's latest estimates showing a slight abortion increase in 2024 with some skepticism, the scholar believes that the data does offer a few insights about the impact of public policy on the incidence of abortion.

Michael New, a senior associate scholar at the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute and assistant professor of social research at the Catholic University of America, broke down the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute's updated abortion estimates for 2024 released this month, showing that 1,038,100 abortions were performed that year. Planned Parenthood's former research arm notes that the total rise in abortions represents an increase of less than 1% since 2023.

"While pro-lifers should take these Guttmacher estimates with a grain of salt, their report contains some interesting information for pro-lifers," New told The Christian Post.

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What pro-lifers can take away from Guttmacher's 2024 abortion data

While a pro-life researcher advised advocates to view the Guttmacher Institute s latest abortion estimates with some skepticism, the scholar noted that the data does offer a few insights regarding

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[Jermayn]

It aches my heart that a mother's womb is one of, if the most, dangerous places on the planet in this day and age.

 

[iluvatar5150]

No kidding. Who could've predicted that and authoritarian/paternalism-only approach wouldn't work?

For the record, I have a lot more sympathy for the pro-life argument than I do for most anything else espoused by the Right, but it's been obvious for decades now that the movement has been focused far less on cutting the number of abortions than they have been on amassing power via legislative and political wins.