Abortion Worldwide Report published
by Thomas W. Jacobson and Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 8 July 2019
We announce publication of the Abortion Worldwide Report in cooperation with the Global Life Campaign. This project merges our research on historical worldwide abortion numbers and policies and combines it with issue briefs and recommendations for pro-life policies. It will serve as an information resource for international pro-life efforts, as well as a robust compilation of available worldwide abortion statistics.
Editors and authors: Thomas W. Jacobson and Wm. Robert Johnston
Additional contributing author: Nicholas Eberstadt
See the Global Life Campaign website for more information or to purchase the book.
Announcement event hosted by the Family Research Council (25 January 2017)
Abortion Worldwide Report: 100 Countries, 1 Century, 1 Billion babies (release presentation, 25 January 2017)
Presentation at the National Right to Life Convention (1 July 2017)
Presentation at the National Right to Life Convention (30 June 2018)
Presentation at the National Right to Life Convention (5-6 July 2019)
The full Abortion Worldwide Report was published in April 2018 |
Contents of the Abortion Worldwide Report (AWR) (links to pre-publication sample chapters at the Global Life Campaign):
- Contents, Introduction, and Executive Summary
- Part I: Human Life, Human Rights, Government and Law
- Sanctity of Human Life
- Scientific/Medical Evidence
- Human Rights
- Government
- Law
- Part II: History and Consequences of Abortion
- Nations Protecting Life
- Nations Authorizing Abortion
- Reasons Given for Abortion
- Sex-Select Abortion (by Nicholas Eberstadt)
- Part III: National Policies
- Part IV: National Data Compilation and Methodologies
- Part V: A Sacred Accounting: Abortion Data
- Part VI: Global Summaries and Maps
- Part VII: Major Findings
- Empirical findings
- General findings
- The greatest genocide
- Part VIII: Final Word to Nations
- Part IX: Word of Truth and Hope
- Part X: Conclusions and Recommendations
- Addendums
Supporting material includes the following AWR Working Papers (WP) and Factsheets:
- AWR WP 1: Abortion Worldwide Report: Data sources, compilation and general issues (published in Abortion Worldwide Report, pp. 85-92)
- AWR WP 2: Proposed methodology for estimating missing data in country-level abortion time series (published in Abortion Worldwide Report, pp. 93-107)
- AWR WP 3: Extrapolated estimates for recent years, various countries (published in Abortion Worldwide Report, pp. 108-110)
- AWR WP 4: Australia: Estimated abortions, 1970-2015 (26 July 2016)
- AWR WP 5: Austria: Estimated abortions, 1974-2015 (29 May 2017)
- AWR WP 6: Canada: Estimated abortions, 2001-2015 (25 June 2016)
- AWR WP 7: India: Reported abortions, 1974-2014 (2 July 2016)
- AWR WP 8: Republic of Korea: Reported and estimated abortions, 1970-2015 (22 July 2016)
- AWR WP 9: South Africa: Estimated abortions, 1997-2015 (15 July 2016)
- AWR WP 10: U.S.S.R. republics: Reported and estimated abortions, 1922-1991 (21 Nov. 2016)
- AWR WP 11: United Kingdom and Ireland: Reported abortions, 1958-2015 (30 Aug. 2016)
- AWR WP 12: Yugoslavia and successor states: Reported and estimated abortions, 1948-2015 (15 July 2016)
- AWR WP 13: United States: Estimated abortions, 2012-2015 (30 May 2017)
- AWR WP 14: Republic of China (Taiwan): Reported abortions, 1951-2015 (25 Oct. 2016)
- AWR WP 15: Comparison of Abortion Worldwide Report figures to published estimates of global abortions (6 Jan. 2017)
- AWR WP 16: International statistics on reasons for abortions (forthcoming)
- AWR WP 17: Notes on state trends in abortion in the United States (30 May 2017)
- AWR WP 18: The past, present and potential futures of abortion in Ireland: Insights from international abortion data (10 May 2018) (also available here)
- AWR WP 19: Austria: Notes on levels of abortion (12 May 2018) (also available here)
- AWR WP 20: Estimates of levels of sex selection abortion in East Asian countries (9 June 2019)
- AWR WP 21: Abortion data updates for 2014-2017 (23 June 2018)
- AWR WP 22: Abortion data for countries of mainland Latin America (2 Dec. 2018)
- AWR WP 23: Additional empirical estimates of possible future abortions in Ireland (27 May 2018) (also available here)
- AWR WP 24: United States: Preliminary analysis of grouped trends in state abortion rates (7 Aug. 2018)
- AWR WP 25: United States: State abortion prohibitions, authorizations, and future prohibitions (19 July 2018)
- AWR WP 26: United States: Abortions by mother’s age, 1970-2014, and estimated abortions, 2015-2017 (forthcoming)
- AWR WP 27: Abortion data updates for 2014-2018 (17 June 2019)
- AWR WP 28: Data on late-term abortion in the United States (forthcoming; also available here)
- AWR WP 29: International data on late-term abortion (forthcoming)
- AWR WP 30: Abortions in the United States by race (forthcoming; also available here)
- AWR WP 31: Later, late-term, and no limit national abortion policies (21 June 2019)
- AWR Factsheet 1: Late-term abortions in the United States (17 June 2019)
- AWR Factsheet 2: International data on late-term abortions (18 June 2019) (also available here)
- AWR Factsheet 3: Abortions by race in the United States (20 June 2019)
- AWR Factsheet 4: United States abortions by mother’s age (21 June 2019)
- AWR Factsheet 5: Understanding estimates of total worldwide abortions (30 June 2019)
This research has built upon, and added to, the international data in the Abortion statistics and other data pages.
News items on the release:
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Last modified 8 July 2019.
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