{"id":226819,"date":"2020-07-05T15:14:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=226819"},"modified":"2020-07-05T00:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T05:14:52","slug":"indiana-abortions-down-5-lowest-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-abortions-down-5-lowest-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Indiana abortions dropped by 5% in 2019, lowest number since 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalrighttolifenews.org\/2020\/07\/four-hundred-fewer-children-aborted-in-indiana-in-2019-according-to-new-indiana-department-of-health-report\/\">National Right to Life News\/Indiana Right to Life<\/a>)\u00a0Four hundred fewer children were aborted in Indiana in 2019 compared to 2018, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001pMtRRwGb3DLZCKhRJcJ0PGJImz9eX40F74PVVMg5vX7WMaDi2jetr-FokNNKC0mS0A8M7ww1zjaWjD02g_M6RKTMLhF6gA6n0tUcD1xcbjedm1gEA8ZNcEGeEuNq3001sUD1ros2wXPZHcKDO4PbqaLZmRfGaevuElkD4sMCSoA--6h53SjjEDxc4QbeZRgZCMklR2GfOan_v_i1quc1nAcouC8_jmQH17ax6EJZRfY=&amp;c=imw6BPrSyknEyu8DrXfJ-XZKVAhl1Yy8wvNROCWZc-JzaR_QlGlcYQ==&amp;ch=UazE0JW-RUqfy4A1Y_B_pNadxfskbHeynsMxlBIGiPiK82vsNANwZg==\">Indiana Terminated Pregnancy Report 2019<\/a>\u00a0released yesterday by the Indiana State Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows 7,637 abortions in 2019, a 5% decrease from the 8,037 abortions reported in 2018.\u00a0The drop in abortions ends a two-year period of increases in Indiana and is the lowest total abortions reported in Indiana since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we cannot specifically point to any one reason why abortion numbers dropped overall in 2019, we are encouraged in knowing that 400 fewer children were aborted in Indiana last year,\u201d states Indiana Right to Life President and CEO Mike Fichter.\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s the equivalent of an entire graduating class in many Indiana high schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fichter continued, \u201cYet our hearts are still broken knowing that 7,637 children were denied the right to be born, and an untold number of women now bear the physical, emotional and spiritual burdens of those abortion decisions.\u00a0Meanwhile, abortion businesses in Indiana continue to enjoy a multi-million-dollar revenue stream at the expense of innocent babies.\u00a0The lives of all unborn children matter.\u00a0We will continue to work for the day when not a single abortion is done in our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new report shows chemical abortions continue to rise in Indiana, with 44% of abortions now being reported as \u201cmedical\u201d [abortion pill] (41% in 2018) with 56% being reported as surgical (59% in 2018).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFZDhM5Gwhk\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/student-funds-indiana-baby-box-saved-life\/\">Months after student raised funds to install Indiana baby box, it saved a baby girl\u2019s life<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report also reveals the continuation of a disproportionately high percentage of abortions on Black\/African-American women, comprising just under 32% of abortions in Indiana, while dropping slightly among Latino\/Hispanic women.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood remains by far the largest abortion business in Indiana performing 57% of abortions.\u00a0Whole Women\u2019s Health, allowed to open in South Bend without a license through the order of a federal judge in 2019, reported 138 abortions.\u00a0Marion County reported the most abortions at 5,669 followed by Lake County at 994 abortions and Monroe County at 816 abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Tippecanoe County showed a large drop in abortions from 196 in 2018 to 20 in 2019, likely due to the lack of an abortion doctor working in that county for most of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Eskenazi Hospital reported 34 abortions, while Indiana University Health Methodist reported 17 abortions and Indiana University Health North Hospital reported 1 abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Non-Indiana resident abortions dropped by 156 in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article was reprinted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalrighttolifenews.org\/2020\/07\/four-hundred-fewer-children-aborted-in-indiana-in-2019-according-to-new-indiana-department-of-health-report\/\">National Right to Life News<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(National Right to Life News\/Indiana Right to Life)\u00a0Four hundred fewer children were aborted in Indiana in 2019 compared to 2018, according to the\u00a0Indiana Terminated Pregnancy Report 2019\u00a0released yesterday by the Indiana State Department of Health. The report shows 7,637 abortions in 2019, a 5% decrease from the 8,037 abortions reported in 2018.\u00a0The drop in abortions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":745,"featured_media":224381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,7077],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Report: Indiana abortions dropped by 5% in 2019, lowest number since 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Four hundred fewer children were aborted in Indiana in 2019 compared to 2018, according to a 2019\u00a0report released yesterday.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-abortions-down-5-lowest-2016\/\" 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