A new study of eight million women is blowing gaping holes in the pro-abortion argument that women need abortions and that women who use abortion rarely are or become mothers.
Life News reports:
The new study, authored by Dr. James Studnicki and a team of Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) scholars, revealed that out of nearly five million Medicaid-enrolled women with at least one pregnancy, less than 6% had both births and abortions. Researchers also found that women in the study population almost never used abortion as a tool to space their children.
CLI President Chuck Donovan said:
“The abortion industry wants America to believe that abortion is a normal experience for mothers. They want to make it acceptable to target vulnerable women and children by citing estimates and surveys conducted at abortion centers to support the narrative that ‘everybody is doing it.’ This new peer-reviewed research proves those narratives simply aren’t true.
“What Dr. Studnicki and his team have done is truly remarkable. This peer-reviewed research is based on nearly five million women who had nearly eight million pregnancies. By comparison, the frequently cited ‘Turnaway Study’ from the abortion industry is based on interviews with just 813 women.
“Most mothers are not undergoing abortions. We know that instinctively. We know that based on logic. Now, we know it based on data.”
The study’s findings concluded:
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Abortion is not a ‘normative experience’ for mothers:
- Only 5.7% of the Medicaid-eligible study population had both births and state-funded abortions.
- Mothers without abortions had 92.8% of total births compared to only 7.2% of total births to mothers who also had state-funded abortions.
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Women with both births and abortions have more abortions than births:
- Women in the study population who had both births and state-funded abortions averaged 3.2 pregnancies, or more than twice the average number of pregnancies for women with “only births” or “only state-funded abortions.”
- CLI peer-reviewed research published in June found that rapid repeat pregnancy was most common among women who had abortions.
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Abortion was rarely used to support healthy families or space out children:
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Abortions that could have been performed to delay a first birth (2.2%), space two births (1.0%), or end childbearing (3.0%) were rare.
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CLI Vice-President Dr. James Studnicki noted:
“After studying the largest universe of actual pregnancy outcomes ever analyzed, our team found that abortion is in no way typical of motherhood. We didn’t sample or conduct surveys – we analyzed all recorded events. We followed the data. It is quite uncommon, if not rare, to have both births and abortions. The overwhelming number of children are born to mothers who never have an abortion.”
Pro-baby murderers are vastly outnumbered by humans.