{"id":294456,"date":"2023-07-10T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T19:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=294456"},"modified":"2023-07-09T23:38:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:38:14","slug":"indiana-department-health-drop-abortions-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-department-health-drop-abortions-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Department of Health shows drop in abortions this year… but questions remain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Indiana Department of Health report reveals that the number of abortions being carried out in the state has declined<\/a> since the passage of a pro-life law \u2014 even though the law has not yet taken effect.<\/p>\n

The report<\/a>, released on June 30, showed that the state’s total number of abortions in 2022 increased<\/a> by 13%, which is believed to have been caused by an increase in women coming from states with pro-life laws including Kentucky and Ohio. However, at the end of 2022 and in the first months of 2023, data shows that the number of abortions in the state dropped<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The number of total abortions in Indiana for the first quarter of 2023 was 1,927 compared to 2,286 abortions during the same time frame in 2022. However, the number of abortions on out-of-state women in the first quarter of 2023 totaled 383, a large increase over the 127 abortions on non-residents in the same time frame of 2022. The majority of those women came from Kentucky. U.S. abortion data shows that 86% of women who have abortions are unmarried<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The reports also show a spike in abortion complications, from 14 reports of 16<\/a> complications in 2021 to 100 reports of 121<\/a> complications in 2022 \u2014 and 28<\/a> reported complications for the first quarter alone of 2023.<\/p>\n