Good News: Abortion Rates Have Dropped 12% Since 2010

09 Jun, 2015 by Warner Todd Huston

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Wow, so what is going on out there. As our nation gets more liberal in some respects, abortion rates are falling. Abortion is down 12 percent since 2010.

Abortion pushers will claim that it is because some states have passed new laws limiting abortion, but that doesn’t explain why even states with easier access have falling abortion rates.

States that have passed laws to reduce abortion such as Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Oklahoma, have seen a drop in the number of abortions, but so have states with easier access to abortion such as New York, Washington and Oregon.

Only two states—Louisiana and Michigan—have seen a “significant increase” in the number of abortions.

…Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life told the AP that the reduced rate reflects “a change in attitudes.”

“There’s an entire generation of women who saw a sonogram as their first baby picture,” Yoest said. “There’s an increased awareness of the humanity of the baby before it is born.”

What ever the case, this also tracks with the fact that rates of pregnancy of unwed teenagers are going down, too.

This is all good news.

Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago-based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com, BigJournalsim.com and all Breitbart News' other sites, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, and many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs across the country to discuss his opinion editorials and current events as well as appearing on TV networks such as CNN, Fox News, Fox Business Network, and various Chicago-based news programs. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the book "Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture" which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston and follow him on Twitter, on Google Plus , and Facebook.