Abortions Are Down in Florida

Recent data from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) shows abortion numbers are down in Florida from year to year. Records indicate there have been just over 16,500 abortions so far in 2022 and, if the trend continues, would be a 38 percent decrease from 2021.

During 2021, there were 79,811 abortions, which was a 6.6 percent increase from 2020. The data also showed that the overwhelming majority of abortions performed were elective, which backs up other data points from across the country.

Pro-abortion advocates say the life of the mother ought to be one of the exceptions provided in stringent pro-life states, but less than one percent of abortions are done in order to save the life of the mother. Similarly, data has shown that 75 percent of abortions done after 13 weeks were elective.

AHCA determined that abortions in the state increased by less than 7 percent in 2021, while the number of cases due to social and economic reasons increased 11.2 percent.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), amid a wave of pro-life legislation in red states, signed a 15-week abortion ban into law. Critics have said that restrictive abortion laws do nothing to save pre-born children’s lives. However, a recent study out of Texas showed that after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a “heartbeat bill” into law, abortions fell in the Lone Star State by approximately 50 percent from month to month… (Excerpt from the Florida Capitol Star)