Abortion Statistics and Trends over the Past Thirty Years Out of the Long Dark Night.

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Abortion Statistics and Trends over the Past Thirty Years Out of the Long Dark Night.

While the number of abortions skyrocketed when abortion was legalized in 1973, peaking at 1.6 million in 1990, fortunately the annual totals have since steadily declined. Today, that death toll is believed to be in the neighborhood of 1.3 million. All told, NRLC projects that there have been over 43 million unborn babies that have lost their lives since the U.S. Supreme Court made Roe v. Wade (and its companion case Doe v. Bolton) the law of the land.

These lost lives are the numbers that matter most in the end. An examination of that data in more detail, however, tells us not only how we got here, but where we might be going in the future. And what it suggests is that the long dark night may be coming to an end.

Before Roe

While it was the Court's decisions in Roe and Doe that legali...

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