And it also said that that 2% figure is a 20% increase over the previous year.
20% increase still adds up to less than 2%. Furthermore, there is no evidence that they came from "red states," nor has there been any change in the abortion laws that would have supposedly encouraged the out-of-towners (if you accept NARAL logic). It's very possible that there are simply more people from Jersey or other nearby places who have relatives in NYC or are collecting welfare there, and have their abortions in NYC, since the general rate of abortions as a whole is rising.
Nice try.
That means that it was 1.66% and now it is 2%, an increase of about a third of a percent. Hardly a meaningful increase from an analytical point of view, perhaps not even statistically significant.
That is the kind of statistic that people report who have nothing else to rely on, much like "cutting the rate of growth in revenues."
Yes, and illegal immigration has increased by even greater percentages. New York is among the most popular of destinations for immigrants of both the legal and the illegal kind.
Any idea how many poor Mississippi women travelled up to New York City for an abortion?
I wonder where Mississippi women who want abortions go to get them. And I wonder what woman would travel to NYC for an abortion. What states near NYC have restrictive abortion policies? Are abortion-promoters sending women to NYC?