The Guam Catholic Pro-Life Committee has recently obtained the “2024 Abortion Report” from the Bureau of Vital Statistics of Guam’s Department of Public Health and Social Services. Guam law (10 GCA 3218) requires abortion providers to submit basic information about abortions committed on Guam to the government and for the government to produce and make available an annual report of those records.
Here is a summary:
- 36 chemical abortions were reported. All were voluntary, none were done “therapeutic”.
- All were performed by prescriptions issued by the Queen’s University Medical Group in Hawaii.
- In all cases the gestational age of the fetus was 11 weeks or younger.
- 29 out of the 36 mothers (81%) identified themselves as “Pacific Islander”.
- 26 of the 36 mothers (72%) were 23 years of age or older. 1 out the 36 mothers (3%) was a minor.
- 24 of the 36 mothers (67%) had previous pregnancies.
- 22 of the 36 (61%) mothers had other living children.
- 19 of the 36 mothers (53%) were married.
- 17 of the 36 mothers (47%) had a college degree or some college education.
One or more of the following is more likely than not to be true about a mother pursuing abortion on Guam: she is older than 23, married, was pregnant before or has other living children. Nearly half of the mothers had at least some college education.
Here is the report that you may download and view: