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Louisiana’s 2022 abortion report was published by the Louisiana Department of Health in June 2023. Parish and clinic data were provided to Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) by the Department of Health upon request. The report shows that abortions decreased markedly from 2021.

In 2021, there were 32,454 abortions reported in North Carolina, an increase of 8.2 percent from 2020.

With major international studies showing that the abortion pill regimen carries four times the risk of complications as surgical abortion, Charlotte Lozier Institute has filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to grant a…

The provision of alternatives to abortion has been the hallmark of the U.S. pro-life movement since the founding of the first pregnancy help centers more than a half century ago.  Ever since, and accelerating after the mid-1980s, PHCs, as the centers are…

Scientists at New York City’s Rockefeller University recently created the first human-chicken hybrid embryos. The result—interspecies embryos—raises ethical dilemmas that health policy has yet to address.

On February 5, 2024, Sage Publications retracted three peer-reviewed articles authored by affiliates of the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Prior to these retractions, Sage issued an expression of concern against the first of the three articles in July of 2023. Reproduced here are…

For years abortion advocates and researchers have been asserting that an abortion is in fact safer than carrying a pregnancy to term.  They contend that pregnancy is a long process and the chance of complications during the gestational period and birth is…

A first pregnancy abortion, compared to a birth, is associated with significantly higher subsequent mental health services utilization following the first pregnancy outcome. The risk attributable to abortion is notably higher for inpatient than outpatient mental health services.

This paper is focused on a narrow matter, namely, the nature of the standard of judicial review adopted by the Kansas Supreme Court in Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt.[2] The most important (and decisive) point to emphasize is that the standard of…

This paper counters arguments that pro-life laws violate state constitutional rights to abortion, endanger women’s lives, and/or are unconstitutionally vague. It also discusses how states are clarifying abortion limits to reassure healthcare providers that they may continue to exercise their clinical judgment…

California does not collect or report abortion data. The Centers for Disease Control’s 1996 abortion surveillance report was the last to include California data.

Arizona’s 2022 abortion report was published online by the Arizona Department of Health Services in December 2023.