US Birth Rate Drops Again; Abortion Numbers Soar

You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. (Leviticus 18:21)

Why would God need to tell his people not to offer their precious child on the altar of a pagan god? Well, because it turns out that sinful mankind is very apt to offer their children as a sacrifice to a god—whether that’s Molech or the god of self, convenience, comfort, safety, or pleasure. We’re no better today than the pagan nations around Israel that gave up their children. And the numbers at Planned Parenthood prove it.

For its 2024–2025 fiscal year, the abortion (baby murder) giant reports that it performed a record 434,450 abortions. Let that sink in: 434,450 precious, helpless image bearers of God, murdered in their mother’s womb. That’s an 8% increase from the year before. That’s an averaged 1,190 babies every single day.

Most of those babies are likely killed via abortion pills (which are deadly to babies and harmful to women) prescribed through “telehealth” visits.

Katherine Van Dyke, an American Life League researcher, highlighted Planned Parenthood’s expanding use of telehealth services, which increased 126% from 2024 to 2025, reaching 320,390 telehealth appointments plus another 62,000 through virtual centers. These undoubtedly push dangerous abortion pills that kill babies and injure women.

Yes, even though Roe was overturned, horrific numbers of abortions continue, even in states where it is no longer legal to operate a clinic, because anyone can order pills online and kill their baby. The blood of these murdered children is surely crying out to the God who “hates . . . hands that shed innocent blood” (Proverbs 6:16–17).

Instead of welcoming babies into the world as the blessings and gifts that God says they are, men and women are murdering the children God has given them!

It’s no shock that, around the same time I saw this report from Planned Parenthood, there was another news item announcing that the US birth rate has hit another record low, dropping from 1.6 births per woman, to 1.57 births (that’s more than a 1% decrease). Instead of welcoming babies into the world as the blessings and gifts that God says they are, men and women are murdering the children God has given them! It’s another tragic consequence of a worldview grounded on man’s word rather than God’s Word.

According to one source, the birth rate is so bad that:

There were MORE babies born in 1966—when our population was 196 million—than in 2025, with 343 million people.

Of course, if the nearly half a million babies Planned Parenthood murdered last year (and that’s just the numbers for Planned Parenthood—that doesn’t include other abortion providers!) had been allowed to live, think what a difference that would make for the future of this nation.

In fact, it’s estimated there are over one million abortions each year right now in America. The number of additional births needed each year in America to even out the birth rate is just over one million!

Abortion is evil. Babies are a blessing from God, and we need to do everything we can to protect those lives.

Behold, children are an inheritance of Yahweh,
The fruit of the womb is a reward. (Psalm 127:3 LSB)

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.