Several prominent pro-life organizations celebrated a decline in officially reported abortion statistics in Florida, even as anti-abortion Christians in the state cast doubt on the claims.

New data from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration found that there was a decline from 84,000 reported abortions in 2023 to a lessened 61,000 reported abortions in 2024, marking a purported 23,000 preborn babies saved from abortion. The pro-life organizations which shared the claim credited the Florida heartbeat law for causing the ostensible decline.

National Right to Life reprinted an article from Liberty Counsel claiming that the heartbeat law, which only protects preborn babies after six weeks gestation while including certain rape and incest exemptions, currently makes the state of Florida “one of the most pro-life states in the nation.”

That same article was shared by LifeNews, a pro-life outlet which has consistently downplayed the number of abortions occurring in conservative states, according to a previous analysis from The Sentinel. Students for Life echoed the claim about 23,000 babies saved on social media.

But anti-abortion Christians in the state of Florida warned in comments to The Sentinel that innumerable preborn children are still murdered under cover of law, especially by means of increasingly prevalent self-managed abortion, which official statistics cannot accurately track.