I had no idea that many abortions were performed.
They don't either. Its all guesses that vary wildly depending what color shirt you wear, because a lot of things aren't reported or aren't what they are polled on. Possibly an undercount, maybe not.
Numbers don’t add up. We would notice a 20 million drop. Either there’s more to the story or it’s exaggerated.
Eggs Zachary.
More importantly, since this article didn't provide any useful reference to the data source, I had to go digging for it.
You can read it here for yourself:
The Guttmacher Institute recently published new data on abortion in the United States. As we work to update our fact sheets with the latest data, please be aware that some of the information below is out of date. In the meantime, please refer to the following resources for the most current facts...
www.guttmacher.org
To their credit, the report is very factual and doesn't draw extensive conclusions or extra meaning... unlike what is linked above.
To your point - Take a look at the first chart
Yes, abortions are on the rise... since 2020... but holy hell look at the long range trend. You wanna talk about an "aborted" generation? Thats us late Gen X and Millennials. It was 2x the rate back then, and a much smaller total population of the country at the time. By the math of the above prior article, that means something like half of us never made it.
This "striking increase" is a just a TINY blip by comparison.
The "more to the story" is that (1) this is a small effect compared to history and (2) immigration has been increasing to balance out the decreasing birth rate. That's how our population has remained slightly positive.
I could only imagine it being normal for 6 children would be hard to handle