Indiana's Abortion Rate Continues to Drop

The Indiana Right to Life recently reported in their July Lifeline Report that the abortion rate in Indiana is dropping. “Abortion data just released by the Indiana State Department of Health in May reveals Indiana’s abortion rate dropped to a 33-year low in 2012 as a result of a 5% drop in abortions from 2009 to 2010. There were 10,031 unborn children aborted in 2010 which is 526 less than the previous year. The statistics are the most current available from the ISDH. Indiana’s abortion rate has now dropped over 8% since 2008 and has fallen nearly 40% from Indiana’s highest annual abortion rate of 16,505 in 1980.”

Indiana Right to Life President and CEO Mike Fichter says he “believes the decline is Indiana’s abortion rate is due to a variety of factors including pro-life policies passed by the Indiana legislature, expanded efforts by Indiana crisis pregnancy centers to provide alternatives to abortion, and a growing awareness of the humanity of the unborn child through technology such as ultrasound. In addition, high school and college students are coming to the pro-life movement in unprecedented numbers and are helping abortion-vulnerable peers to choose life when experiencing a crisis pregnancy.” Fichter goes on to say, “We are on the right track in Indiana. This most recent decline will energize and motivate Indiana’s pro-life community to work even harder to bring about the day when abortion is a sad and tragic memory of the past.” ARE YOU ENERGIZED? ARE YOU MOTIVATED?