If the RATE of abortion relative to population is an indication, then this may be of some use:
CA, NV, FL, IL, NY, NJ, MD, DC, DE and others would find it hard to ban abortion, where it is QUITE profitable and widespread. It's a little hard to tell from this image, but DC is the only one in the "over 56%" section - which means more pregnancies end in abortion than childbirth. Trying to ban abortion in that place would be one tough cookie.
Texas would probably ban it, as would Louisiana. Michigan would have a huge fight on it. California wouldn't ban it, but then California would probably pass some weirdly out of place law on it because that's what California always does. New Hampshire is less clear-cut than one might think, since both Senators from NH are routinely pro-life or very pro-life.
In the end, it would matter little. There would still probably be over a million abortions annually, as there are now. It would likely be reduced, though.
I don't see why it's any different than when the country was half-slave, half-free. Half the country kills babies legally, half wouldn't. Not much change, there'd be cross-border abortions all the time. If you give a damn about life then murder has to be as universally illegal as slavery is today.
WTF. Source please.
When Washington State isn't busy electing terrorists to the Senate, we're getting the state government to fund abortions!
Though my statistics are a tad dated, they don't show quite as severe of a picture.
According to
The US centers for disease control
the abortion ratio (number of abortions per 1000 live births) peaked at 264 in 1984, and has gradually declined since. The total number of abortions peaked in 1990, as aside from a small hiccup in 1996 has been steadily declining. (both stats are from table 2).
Since three states don't report abortion statistics (California, Alaska, and New Hampshire), it is plausable that the number is still over a million, but the general nationwide trend has been downward for the past decade.
The State with the largest abortion ratio reported would be Rhode Island with 345 abortions per 1000 live births in 2000 (meaning roughly 1 in 4 pregnancies ended in abortions. (Yes, I know NYC and DC have higher rates - NYC being about 2 in 5, but they're not states). [Table 3]
I think the key (which I suspect has been gradually working) is to increase education to decrease unwanted pregnancies in the first place.
