{"id":294457,"date":"2023-07-09T09:08:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=294457"},"modified":"2023-07-07T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T02:30:08","slug":"midwestern-state-abortion-destination-2022-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/midwestern-state-abortion-destination-2022-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwestern state became ‘abortion destination’ in 2022… with massive spike in complications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(NRL News Today<\/a>) Multiple factors that could have been avoided transformed Indiana into an abortion destination state in 2022, said Indiana Right to Life president and chief executive officer Mike Fichter.<\/p>\n

Data reported by the Indiana Department of Health last Friday shows that nonresident abortions were up significantly in 2022, with more babies aborted in Indiana than a decade ago, and more pregnant mothers experiencing abortion-procedure complications \u2013 including one death.<\/p>\n

Fichter said the rise in nonresident abortions was a confluence of several factors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the result of abortion-industry hysteria, pre-emptive pro-life laws in Ohio and Kentucky that went into effect upon the overturning of\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em>, the time it took for Indiana\u2019s legislation to pass, and judicial activism blocking Indiana\u2019s new law from being in effect,\u201d said Fichter. \u201cTogether this combination of actions doomed Indiana to become an abortion destination state.\u00a0\u00a0This is exactly what we warned would happen, and it did.\u201d<\/p>\n

IDOH\u2019s report indicates\u00a09,529 abortions were performed in Indiana in 2022<\/a>, the largest annual number since 2010 when the state reported 10,031 abortions. The majority of abortions in 2022 were performed at Indiana abortion clinics, with nearly half (4,717) of those abortions conducted at Planned Parenthood locations.<\/p>\n

More than 50\u00a0abortions<\/a>\u00a0were reported\u00a0to be conducted at Indiana University Health locations, including IU Health Methodist Hospital (5 abortions), IU Health Riley Hospital for Children (32 abortions) and IU Health University Hospital (14 abortions). Additionally, 60 abortions were reported to be conducted at Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital, along with several other hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, the 2022 reported abortion complications increased by 600% over the number of abortion complications\u00a0reported in 2021<\/a>,\u201d said Fichter. \u201cAbortion is traumatic to women \u2013 mentally, emotionally, and the State\u2019s latest report underscores abortion presents real life-threatening complications as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

State data showed\u00a0100 reported abortion complications in 2022<\/a>, including one death, uterine perforation, incomplete abortions (retained tissue), and cervical laceration. A concerning\u00a072% of reported abortion complications<\/a>\u00a0were specific to medical abortions, in which Mifepristone and Misoprostol were listed as the abortion drugs used in 53 reported complications overall.<\/p>\n