Indiana’s protective abortion ban is successfully saving unborn babies, with reported abortions plummeting to just 26 in the final three months of 2025 — down dramatically from 1,979 in the same quarter of 2021 before the law took full effect.
That’s according to new data from the Indiana Department of Health.
The department released its abortion report for October through December 2025 on February 28, revealing the lowest quarterly abortion total in recent years.
That’s good news and means babies are being saved from abortions. There are still out of state companies mailing abortion pills to Indiana, and some women go to neighboring states for abortions. But even if the Indiana abortion ban saves just one baby, that’s worth celebrating.
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Of the 26 abortions that still occurred, 31% involved the drugs misoprostol and/or mifepristone, while 69% were surgical procedures. Eight of the abortions, or 31%, took place after 21 weeks of gestation on viable babies. Eighteen, or 69%, were done at Riley Health Maternity Tower. Fifteen, or 58%, were listed as involving a “lethal fetal anomaly” – although prenatal testing is often wrong.
The figures continue a steep decline since the state enacted its ban protecting unborn children.
Comparable quarterly totals were 1,724 abortions in the fourth quarter of 2022, 46 in 2023, 39 in 2024, and now just 26 in 2025.
A separate complications report documented 15 abortion-related complications filed during the period. The most common was “incomplete” abortion — in which a baby’s body parts were left inside the mother — with 11 cases reported.
Other complications included infection and bleeding. Some women required blood transfusions, additional surgical intervention or hospital admission. Of the complications, 11, or 73%, were linked to abortion drugs, including cases involving drugs received by mail order.
The strong results come as Planned Parenthood announced it will close two Indianapolis abortion centers — the Midtown and Southside clinics — on April 3, consolidating operations at its Georgetown Health Center following federal defunding of the abortion organization.
The positive trend persists despite an ongoing legal challenge to the ban.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has appealed a March 5 Marion County Superior Court ruling by Judge Christina R. Klineman that issued a permanent injunction against the ban, claiming it violates the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act by interfering with what the judge described as a religious right to abortion.
A spokesman for Attorney General Rokita said: “We disagree with the court’s decision and have already appealed. As we have with every challenge against our pro-life law, we’ll continue fighting to protect the lives of the unborn.”
Indiana Right to Life President and CEO Mike Fichter condemned the ruling, stating: “For the court to rule that taking the life of an unborn child is an exercise of religious freedom is deeply distressing—and a perversion of the law’s intent. Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act was never intended to equate taking the life of an unborn child with religious expression in our state.”
The Indiana Department of Health reports are based on mandatory submissions from abortionists. The data reflect only abortions reported as occurring in Indiana.
