Posted on 01/04/2026 11:34:26 AM PST by Morgana
ccording to the latest vital statistics report from Kansas, which was made available on Wednesday, abortions reached a record high in the state in 2024, with a notable increase among minor girls.
Key Takeaways:
* Kansas' vital statistics report for 2024 was released on the last day of 2025, showing the highest number of abortions in the state since 1973.
* There were 19,811 abortions in Kansas in 2024.
* Among minors, abortions in the state increased by 47%.
* 76% of the abortions were committed on women from other states.
* In 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court found that abortion is a right in the state constitution.
The Details:
The report revealed that there were 19,811 abortions reported in Kansas in 2024, up from 19,467 in 2023, and the most in the state since 1973, when there were 12,612 carried out.
Shockingly, the report noted a 47% increase in abortions among minors. There were 552 abortions committed on girls under age 18, up from 376 in 2023. One hundred of those girls were from Texas, 96 were from Missouri, and 76 were from Oklahoma.
Overall, 76% of all of the abortions in Kansas in 2024 were committed on women who traveled from another state. There were 15,048 total abortions on women from Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Nebraska.
While the number of abortions rose by two percent from 2023, they were lower than the number projected by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. In the spring, Guttmacher estimated there were 22,720 abortions in Kansas in 2024.
According to the Sunflower State Journal, the vital statistics report is usually released by early summer, but the 2023 report was kept quiet until December 13, 2023, and the 2024 report was held until December 31.
In a statement, Kansas for Life said, "By waiting until the final hours of the year to release Kansas' 2024 abortion statistics, Gov. Laura Kelly has made it clear she hoped these numbers would go unnoticed."
"Kansans should ask why such critical public health data was withheld for so long, especially the shocking increase in abortions performed on minor girls."
Abortion is legal in Kansas through 22 weeks with exceptions after that for the life of the mother. The state Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that the state constitution protects abortion as a right; however, there is a mandatory parental consent law for minors.
However, in 2023, an undercover investigation found that Planned Parenthood in Kansas City, Missouri had been helping teens and potentially predators get young girls across state lines, including into Kansas, to undergo secret abortions.
The Bottom Line:
The abortion numbers out of Kansas indicate that the fall of Roe v. Wade and the enactment of state pro-life laws have done little to prevent abortions in the U.S., especially as companies and organizations bend over backwards to shuffle women, and apparently minors, across state lines to abort their babies.
“ 76% of the abortions were committed on women from other states.”
And when a 14 year old shows up for an abortion, I bet no clinic has ever reported the rape.
Or crossed state lines, which makes it a federal offense.
I think that's an unwarranted conclusion unless one can account for the previous average numbers of abortions in other states that do not occur now. And, of course, it's hard to account for the number of abortions that would have occurred in states with strong pro-life laws.
Still, it shows we should continue to concentrate our efforts on preventing interstate abortion tourism to death meccas like Kansas including abortifacient drugs.
Im sure our Governor Kelly and other pro-abort zealots in our state are extremely proud of the increased killings.
Kansas is very much like Minnesota.
Or being a young hooker one seldom knows.
For some reason Kansas has always been an abortion zone. Who could forgrt Tiller the baby killer who was protected by the wretched daughter of Satan Kathleen Sebelius who was Governor then
76% came from out of state. Hopefully Kansans get tired of being a murder destination.
We are not in Kansas anymore.
Scott Roeder terminated Tiller’s ‘medical practice’. Sad to read about my home state.
Studies have shown that the majority of pregnancy terminations today are the result of taking the abortion pill. I don’t think those stats are reflected here.
Do you think if the Holy Bible were taught in public schools that it might have an impact on teenage promiscuity, thus resulting in the decline of the teenage abortion rate? I do.
Very sad....leftist are happy..
If that’s so, then Kansas will be taken off my list of possible retirement destinations. WOW, I had no idea they’d gone that far over the edge there.
Only if it’s taught correctly.
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