No, one in three women are not having abortions

PHILADELPHIA — Statistics are fun, especially for Democrats. They like being able to spout catch numbers like “one in three” or “one in five” and leave it at that. But when one actually looks into the numbers they cite, one finds they aren’t accurate.

At the Democratic National Convention, the President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Ilyse Hogue, explained that she had an abortion because she wasn’t ready at the time to have a family. She went on to cite a dated statistic to make it seem like very large numbers of American women are having abortions.