In a month-by-month study after Roe v Wade was overturned, pro-abortion group Society of Family Planning is tracing abortions in all 50 states.
Those abortion numbers are remaining about the same nationwide, the group said, but abortions dropped by 120,000 in 14 states where abortion laws restricted the practice.
That means conversely 120,000 more children have been born who would have been terminated in the womb.
Dr. Randall K. O'Bannon of the National Right to Life Committee tells AFN the study was no surprise.
“The most direct and obvious response that we found out was – and this is no big shock to anyone – that abortions really dropped in the states where they had protections in place for unborn children, and their mothers, after Dobbs,” he says.
Dobbs is the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe.
Although pro-life laws have meant more children are being born, Planned Parenthood was making plans before the Dobbs ruling to keep its business busy.
“They had sort of trained the people in their clinics as it were to work like travel agents,” Bannon explains. “And they would take women who were calling and asking about abortions, and they would say, ‘Look, we could help you get some money to travel. We'll set you up with an appointment over here in this clinic in a neighboring state.’”
