The number of legal abortions being performed in Indiana is steadily dropping, with a total of twenty-two abortions reported in Q1 of 2025 in Indiana, according to the Indiana Department of Health Termination of Pregnancy Quarterly Report.
Of the twenty-two reports submitted by hospitals to the Health Department, only two were properly filled out, with eleven incomplete reports submitted by Indiana University Health and the other nine from an unidentified hospital. Each report that is not submitted properly is a Class B misdemeanor under Indiana Code § 16-34-2-5.
Along with the abortion report, the quarter's complications report was released. This report includes any women treated at an Indiana hospital for an abortion complication, whether the abortion took place legally at an Indiana hospital, illegally through mail-order abortion, or in another state.
Twenty complication reports were filed, with complications ranging from infection, vaginal bleeding, failure to terminate the pregnancy, incomplete abortion, and pelvic inflammatory disease.
Twenty percent of patients who reported to the hospital with complications were admitted, 45% of patients required surgical intervention, and 20% required a blood transfusion. The majority of complications reported occurred after a chemical abortion, rather than a surgical abortion.
The incomplete reports submitted are deeply concerning, along with the lack of access for the public to view Termination of Pregnancy Reports. The state of Indiana doesn’t know whether the abortions being performed qualify as legal abortions under the law, whether they are being performed on minors, or exactly at what hospitals the abortions are being performed.
Voices for Life, a grassroots pro-life Indiana organization, along with the Thomas More Society, has brought a lawsuit about the issue of a lack of public access to the reports. Their appeal was submitted on May 27th, and the plaintiffs have thirty days to respond. After that, oral arguments will be scheduled.
While we are thankful that the number of legal abortions continues to fall in the state, we mourn with the women, children, families, and medical personnel who are suffering from abortion. It is clear from the complications report that abortions are not a safe medical procedure, and women deserve to know the truth about not only the unsafe and potentially life-threatening complications that may occur, but also that their life and their baby's life are valuable.
Any abortion remains a tragedy. We are deeply committed to supporting women, children, and families so that abortion becomes unthinkable in our state.
