{"id":212573,"date":"2019-10-18T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=212573"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:29:11","slug":"2000-20-million-abortions-declining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/2000-20-million-abortions-declining\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortions on decline in U.S. after topping more than 20 million since 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guttmacher’s latest abortion report indicates that over 20 million abortions have taken place within the United States since 2000. According to the data,\u00a0between 2000 and 2017, a total of\u00a020,057,120 abortions have been reported to the Guttmacher Institute — and interestingly, over one quarter (26%) of those procedures (5,281,838) were committed by taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood. But even as national abortion numbers drop, Planned Parenthood’s market share of abortions is climbing. In recent years, Planned Parenthood<\/a> has been gaining a growing share of abortions, and currently commits<\/a> nearly 40% of the nation’s abortions.<\/p>\n

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Abortion and Planned Parenthood totals and MktShare 2000 to 2017 (Image: Live Action News)<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2014, Guttmacher reported a total of\u00a0926,190 abortions in the U.S. — and\u00a0although Guttmacher did not publish abortion totals for 2016, its 2017\u00a0Abortion Incidence and Service Availability\u00a0<\/em>report noted<\/a>\u00a0864,080 abortions were committed in 2016 and 862,320 abortions in\u00a02017<\/a>, as previously<\/a> reported by\u00a0Live Action News. To gather information, Guttmacher allegedly sent surveys or made calls to “2,277 facilities in our universe of potential abortion-providing facilities as well as state health departments….”<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood’s former\u00a0\u201cspecial affiliate<\/a>\u201d reports receiving “questionnaires from 954 entities (42%) and acquired data during telephone and e-mail follow-up from an additional 386 entities (17%).” It also “used health department data to determine the abortion caseloads of 423 facilities (19%).” Then, for another 446 facilities (20%), the Guttmacher report states<\/a> that it “estimated abortion totals using a variety of techniques and information sources.”<\/p>\n

2017 State Abortion Data<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the report, the 12 states<\/em> Guttmacher viewed as “supportive of abortion rights in 2017… accounted for 43% of all U.S. abortions in that year.” Those states were “California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington.”<\/p>\n

The number of abortions from those states plus several additional states with high reported abortion numbers for 2017 are listed below:<\/p>\n