Pro-life laws in some states are saving lives, according to the annual “Abortion Surveillance” report released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s report covers 2022. Roughly half of it accounts for abortion under the Roe v. Wade regime, before the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling that allowed abortion on demand. The other half of the report accounts for abortion under the post-Dobbs v. Jackson landscape, after the high court sent the issue back to Americans and their elected representatives. Again, the data is clear: Pro-life laws that went into effect in the immediate aftermath of the court’s Dobbs ruling saved lives. But there’s cause for concern, too. Pro-abortion states are undermining progress in pro-life states. Here are key takeaways from the CDC report that you need to know. Every year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releases a report compiling information about abortion in the United States. The report answers important questions. Among them: How many abortions happened in a given state during a one-year period? What were the ages and races of women getting abortions? How many previous abortions did these women have? Were they married or unmarried? How many weeks pregnant were the women when the abortions took place? Was the abortion done using pills or a surgical procedure?   The CDC’s data is valuable—to an extent. Reporting to the government agency is voluntary, and not all states submit the same information. Four states submit no information at all. And the states that don’t participate (California, New York, New Hampshire, and New Jersey) all have weak abortion restrictions, if any. We know that the CDC data undoubtedly is missing thousands of abortions in these jurisdictions. Some organizations have released more recent data that includes 2023, among them the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute and individual state health departments. But for this discussion, we’re looking specifically at data available to the CDC for its yearly surveillance report. With the caveat that the data is limited, we can learn from overall trends. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 613,383 abortions took place in 2022. This is down from 625,978 abortions in 2021 and 620,327 in 2020. Pro-life laws in a dozen states sprang to life after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022, and the results are undeniable: These laws save lives, and fewer women and girls were harmed by abortion. The continued rise in the percentage of abortions that are chemical, rather than surgical, is concerning. For years, activists have sounded the alarm that abortion pills pose the single biggest threat to the progress of the pro-life movement. The CDC report again proves just how well-founded those warnings are. In 2022, 57.6% of abortions were done by pills rather than surgical procedures. This is up from 56% in 2021 and 22% a decade earlier, in 2012. Looking back all the way to 2001 (when abortion pills first became an option and were accounted for in the CDC data), such pills were used in less than 3% of all abortions. When we zoom in on state-specific data, we see that some states with lax abortion laws—including states that border pro-life states—actually saw an increase in the overall number of abortions. Take New Mexico, for example. Abortions more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. For neighboring Texas in 2022, abortions were a third of what they were the year before. Unfortunately, it appears that many women traveled to New Mexico to obtain an abortion that they otherwise wouldn’t have had back in Texas. How can we tell? New Mexico reported that 40% of abortions were done on out-of-state residents in 2021. The next year, more than 62% of abortions were performed on out-of-state residents. This is a dynamic we see in other states as well. Abortions increased in Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, and North Carolina. At the same time, the number of abortions performed on out-of-state residents also saw a big bump in these states. Another troubling dynamic is the shift in when abortions occurred, particularly abortions prior to six weeks gestation (the point at which ultrasound typically can detect an unborn child’s beating heart). In recent years, the percentage of abortions at or before six weeks was rising higher and higher, meaning women were obtaining abortions earlier and earlier in pregnancy. As the chart below shows, the percentage climbed steadily following Food and Drug Administration approval of the abortion drug mifepristone in 2000. The percentage jumped significantly after 2016, when the Obama administration significantly weakened safety protections for this dangerous drug. In 2022, the percentage of abortions performed at of before six weeks dropped from 45% to 40%. Looking at the raw numbers, we see that even though fewer abortions occurred in 2022 compared to 2021, thousands more abortions occurred later in pregnancy. Why does this matter? We see that when more states protect unborn children early in pregnancy, it corresponds with fewer abortions overall. That said, it’s likely that some women in pro-life states would have gotten an abortion earlier if they could get one in their home states. Instead, they got one later after traveling to a pro-abortion state. More abortions occurring later in pregnancy should concern everyone who cares about women’s health and safety. After all, the further along a woman is in pregnancy, the more likely she is to experience complications from an abortion. Will this trend continue to show up in the CDC’s 2023 data? Time will tell. Besides these takeaways from the agency’s abortion report this year, there’s plenty more number-crunching and analysis to do in the months and weeks to come. It’s clear that pro-life laws in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision saved lives. The total number of abortions declined, and hearts are beating today that otherwise wouldn’t have had a chance at life. That’s cause for celebration. But it’s also clear that pro-life laws in some states are up against radically pro-abortion laws in other states. Women continue to travel to pro-abortion states and dangerous abortion pills continue to be shipped into pro-life states. The Dobbs ruling was a victory half a century in the making. But the status quo isn’t the end goal. The pro-life movement’s mission never was to protect women, girls, and babies in Texas, Idaho, and Tennessee while abandoning them to abortion on demand in New Mexico, California, and Illinois. The fight to build a culture of life continues at the local, state, and federal levels. Convincing our fellow citizens of the value and dignity of each and every life is more important than ever. 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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, was shot Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan in an apparent targeted attack. Thompson arrived at the hotel early for a conference when a masked assailant allegedly waiting for him shot him and fled. According to the New York Post, Thompson was fatally shot in the chest and pronounced dead at Mt. Sinai Hospital. “The masked man, who had a grey backpack on, then fled into a nearby alley. Thompson was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead,” Collin Rugg wrote. “UnitedHealthGroup was scheduled to start its annual Investor Conference at 8 a.m. Wednesday, according to the company,” News 8 reported, Rugg noted. NEW: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot and k*lled in Manhattan by a man in a black mask. The 50-year-old CEO was outside of the Hilton hotel when a man came up to him and shot him in the chest. The masked man, who had a grey backpack on, then fled into a nearby… pic.twitter.com/umBPdGby17 — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 4, 2024 From the New York Post: Andrew Witty, CEO of parent company UnitedHealth Group, said the firm had been holding its Investor Day conference at the hotel on Wednesday, which Thompson was attending. The conference was abruptly called off due to “a very serious medical situation” with one of its team members, Witty said in a statement. Officials said no arrests have been made yet and that the investigation is ongoing. The suspect was described as a white male wearing a cream-colored jacket, black face mask, and black and white sneakers. Officials said he was carrying a gray backpack. Witnesses told The Post the suspect had been spotted near the vicinity of the hotel, on 6th Avenue, milling around. Gunman who shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thomspon waited for Thompson to arrive, fired multiple times from 20 feet, fled on foot in a back alley then hopped on a bicycle; he remains at large: eyewitness to CNN — zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 4, 2024 Surveillance photos show suspect in fatal Midtown shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson https://t.co/mWQJgx0Cje pic.twitter.com/gqYdacOuZG — New York Post (@nypost) December 4, 2024 Per CNN: Details on the circumstances are not immediately clear, but investigators say it appears to be a targeted shooting. No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing, the NYPD said. Police are expected to provide a briefing on the incident later this morning. CNN has reached out to UnitedHealthcare for comment. Thompson was named chief executive officer for UnitedHealthcare in April 2021. UnitedHealthcare is part of UnitedHealth Group, ranked fifth in the Fortune 500, according to the company. WATCH:

British rock band Sports Team was robbed at gunpoint in California while stopping for coffee ahead of their first concert of a U.S. tour. The band’s first scheduled gig for the tour is in Sacramento. The London-based alternative rock band stopped for coffee at a Starbucks in Vallejo and a group of armed men scoured their van. One of the robbers pulled a gun on a band member who went to confront them. “Just been robbed at gun point 10 minutes into the US tour. Stopped for coffee. Man runs in saying some guys are smashing into a van. Ran out to try to stop it and find masked guys ransacking the van. Start yelling and they pull out a gun,” the band posted to Instagram. “Police response was ‘submit an online report.’ Lost a lot of personal gear, but they didn’t get the instruments so driving on to Sacramento to play tonight. They can take our Nintendo Switches but they can never take our ability to play rock songs about motorways. In all seriousness pretty shocking how resigned everyone seemed to be to it. ‘It happens’. 9am at some petrol station Starbucks. Wild,” the post continued. UK band Sports Team robbed at gunpoint while getting coffee in California on first day of US tour: ‘Get down!’ https://t.co/fv7tJBcGvE pic.twitter.com/Y2GHLEVtGG — New York Post (@nypost) December 4, 2024 KTLA 5 reports: Video posted by the band from inside the Starbucks shows what appears to be the thief waving a gun at members of the tour before two people retreat back inside. “This is so f—ed up!” one person inside the coffee shop can be heard saying. The thief, according to a statement from the band cited by The Guardian, got away with stage equipment, laptops, passports, personal items and other valuables. Just In: British indie rock band robbed at gunpoint outside Vallejo Starbucks 10 minutes into US tour https://t.co/eAfNSg98mP — KRON4 News (@kron4news) December 4, 2024 From the New York Post: Recounting the incident hours later, the band’s drummer said everyone “ran out, shouting.” “Somebody opened the door and was like, does anybody have a white Sprinter van? Because you’re being robbed right now,” Greenwood told BBC News. “Lauren, our tour manager, was slightly ahead of me, and somebody else ran past us in the opposite direction, and said, ‘Careful, he’s holding something.’” “I really thought I was about to watch someone get shot, because it took a while for our tour manager to realize. In the video, you can hear me screaming at her to get down.” Known for their songs “M5,” “The Drop,” and “Here’s the Thing,” Sports Band were nominated for a Mercury Prize in 2020 — an annual award ceremony that honors the best music albums from the UK and Ireland. The band’s debut album, “Deep Down Happy,” shot to the second spot on the UK Albums Chart, serving as a springboard for their 2022 album “Gulp!” which reached the top three in the charts.

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