I’m sure that columnist Linda Blackford and the rest of the editorial staff of the Lexington Herald-Leader are aghast, but almost 1,900 lives were saved!

Kentucky abortions dropped by nearly half last year, showing impact of statewide bans

by Alex Aquisto | Thursday, October 5, 2023 | 4:48 PM EDT | Updated: 5:11 PM EDT

The number of reported abortions provided in Kentucky last year dropped by roughly 43 percent, according to new annual report tracking the medical procedure.

The reduction in legal pregnancy terminations correlates directly with the commonwealth’s trigger law banning abortion and a six-week ban, both of which became enforceable last summer with the overturning of federal abortion protections by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Last year, 2,550 abortions were provided in Kentucky, down from the 4,441 performed in 2021, according the the Cabinet for Health and Family Services’ Office of Vital Statistics report released Wednesday. All but three of the 2,550 were provided before August, when both bans were fully in place.

Kentucky’s trigger law bans abortion except when a pregnant person’s life is at risk. The concurrent six-week ban, or fetal heartbeat law, outlaws abortion after fetal cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy. Health care providers who perform abortions outside these confines can be charged with a felony.

There’s more at the original, but the math is simple: 4,441 – 2,550 = 1,891, 1,891 lives saved in the Bluegrass State.

Of course, it’s not quite that simple: we have no statistics on how many pregnant women in the Bluegrass State drove to Pennsylvania or New York or someplace else where prenatal infanticide remains legal, but the odds are that the number wasn’t as high as 1,891. There are surely hundreds, and quite possibly well over a thousand, babies born in Kentucky who would not have been had not the Supreme Court thrown out the repugnant Roe v Wade decision.

Think about what that means! Perhaps over a 1,000 new Kentuckians, most of whom will grow up to be productive adults, who will grow up to be a real benefit to our state, our country, and our society. While this site reports a lot on crime, the vast majority of people are not criminals. While we have sometimes reported on welfare malingerers, most Americans are not on welfare.

That trend has continued into this year. From January to July, reported abortions in Kentucky dropped by almost 100% compared with 2021, according to state data. Thirteen abortions were reported to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services between January and July of 2023, compared to 2,591 reported in 2021 during the same time frame — a reduction of 99.5%.

In other words, as many as another 2,578 lives were saved!

Illinois, which borders the Bluegrass State on the northwest, allows prenatal infanticide, so it would be unsurprising if there were not some future Kentuckians slaughtered in the Land of Lincoln. That number might, however be smaller than one might believe from the raw statistics, given that there were no abortion clinics west of Louisville prior to the change in the law, so it’s probable that western Kentucky women who wanted abortions were already traveling to Illinois for abortions before Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and thus not reflected in Kentucky’s statistics.

The statistics do get fuzzier when state lines are considered:

While most of the abortions provided last year were for in-state residents, people who live in 19 other states got abortions in Kentucky, including 215 pregnant people from Indiana, 123 from Tennessee, and 48 from Ohio.

As soon as I read the idiotic phrase “pregnant people,” I know that the article author is not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree!

Miss Aquisto’s article continues to state that the cumulative number of abortions nationwide has been greater than in 2020, but 2020 is hardly a comparable year, due to the lockdowns resulting from the COVID-19 panicdemic. The statistics she used, from the pro-abortion^[1]Those claiming not to be pro-abortion, but simply pro-choice, are lying through their scummy teeth. To be pro-choice, you have to want enough abortions to occur to make abortion a profitable … Continue reading Guttmacher Institute, are vague guesstimates at best, by an organization which promotes abortion and has a vested interest in seeing a larger number of abortions reported.

We do not really know just how many lives have been saved due to the Dobbs decision, and though it would seem obvious that at least some have, even that cannot be taken for granted. What we do know is that more needs to be done, to save more people from being murdered before they ever have a chance to live.