2016 Survey Says: Largest Attempt in Decades to Expand Abortion Has Failed by Cheryl Sullenger

In 2016, America experienced the largest attempt to expand abortion since the 1980s.

It failed.Operation Rescue’s annual survey of abortion facilities found that after all the dust had settled on a very active year of reorganization within the Abortion Cartel, closures of abortion facilities compensated for the new opens. This has left the number of abortion facilities in America essentially the same as 2015 – despite the best efforts of the Abortion Cartel to expand abortion services in a year characterized by conditions that favored it.

Operation Rescue has released an informative report that includes the most accurate numbers of medication and surgical abortion facilities in the U.S. and how those numbers have changed since 2009, the first year Operation Rescue began to document the number and type of abortion facilities.

Other findings include:

• A total of 31 abortion facilities permanently closed in 18 states in 2016.
• The average cost of a first trimester surgical abortion has increased 5% over last year’s average.
• The average cost of a medication abortion has increased 3% at facilities that provide only that type of abortion. This is despite the relaxing of FDA protocols that make abortion drugs easier for abortion facilities to dispense.
• There are 31 abortion facilities that continue to offer Methotrexate injections to cause abortions even though it has a 33% failure rate and poses more dangers to women than other methods. The motive for risking patients’ lives with this drug is profit-driven.
• Evidence of price-gouging for medication abortions has surfaced in California where the average cost increased a whopping 13% over last year’s state average — even though a new state law made it less expensive to dispense abortion drugs.