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Cuba aborted nearly as many babies as were born in 2025
In 2025, Cuba saw nearly as many abortions committed as babies born.
Cuba is one of the most pro-abortion countries in the world, with the nation's Communist government heavily promoting abortion.
In 2025, according to government data, 64,850 abortions were committed.
There were just 68,064 live births that same year.
The number of abortions slightly increased from 2024, while the number of live births plummeted.
Cuba's Ministry of Public Health released its annual Statistical Yearbook of Health from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), which included data on abortion, pregnancy, and live births in 2025.
MINSAP claims 64,850 abortions were committed in 2025, compared to 68,064 live births. The ministry reported 94.8 abortions for every 100 deliveries, up from 90.1 in 2024, and the highest published ratio since 1986.
From 2024 to 2025, there was an increase in the abortion total, which rose by only 86 cases, or about 0.13%. The live birth rate, however, fell much more significantly, with 71,358 live births reported in 2024. The drop is even steeper from 2023 to 2025; in 2023, there were 90,392 babies born.
Meanwhile, women are reportedly struggling to find access to legitimate OB/GYN services; the number of deaths from cervical cancer is rising. It isn't much of a surprise, considering the number of women who received screenings for cervical cancer fell from 871,196 in 2018 to just 197,457 in 2025 — a decrease of 77.3%.
Cuba has one of the highest abortion rates in the world. It is heavily promoted by the nation's Communist government, and past reports have indicated that infanticide has been practiced without consequence, while being labeled as “late-term abortion."
Reports from approximately two decades ago indicate that doctors had been using something known as the “Rivanol Method” for later abortions, in which they would inject 150 ml of a 0.1% Rivanol solution into the uterus. The drug was meant to force the placenta to detach, thus starving the preborn baby of oxygen and nutrients in an attempt to end the baby's life. Then labor was induced.
However, babies regularly survived. Instead of giving care to these survivors, they were either left to die or actively killed.
Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet became a whistleblower for this atrocity after participating in a 10-month study at Municipal Hospital of Havana in which thousands of women were given Rivanol, and 60% of their babies were born alive.
Biscet wrote that these babies were not given care; instead, "the umbilical cord was cut and they were allowed to bleed to death or they were wrapped in paper and asphyxiated."
Because Biscet exposed this infanticide, he was stripped of his medical license and thrown into prison multiple times, ultimately spending 25 years behind bars. He was released in 2011, and reportedly remains under heavy state surveillance in the country:
I spent more than 11 years in Cuban prisons. Not for any act of violence. I refused, as a physician, to stay silent about infants left to die after late-term abortions. I hung the national flag of Cuba upside down, the sailor's signal of a ship in distress, because I believed my country was one.
I met with other Cubans who wanted to speak their minds. For that I spent years in a solitary cell I could cross in a few steps.
... The political police still watch me closely and detain me often enough to make sure I get the message.
Another political prisoner, Lisdany Rodriguez Isaac, was reportedly pressured to abort her baby while in jail.
When a country dehumanizes human beings and promotes death of the most innocent, it is violating the human rights of its citizens.
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·Cuba aborted nearly as many babies as were born in 2025
In 2025, Cuba saw nearly as many abortions committed as babies born.
Cuba is one of the most pro-abortion countries in the world, with the nation's Communist government heavily promoting abortion.
In 2025, according to government data, 64,850 abortions were committed.
There were just 68,064 live births that same year.
The number of abortions slightly increased from 2024, while the number of live births plummeted.
Cuba's Ministry of Public Health released its annual Statistical Yearbook of Health from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), which included data on abortion, pregnancy, and live births in 2025.
MINSAP claims 64,850 abortions were committed in 2025, compared to 68,064 live births. The ministry reported 94.8 abortions for every 100 deliveries, up from 90.1 in 2024, and the highest published ratio since 1986.
From 2024 to 2025, there was an increase in the abortion total, which rose by only 86 cases, or about 0.13%. The live birth rate, however, fell much more significantly, with 71,358 live births reported in 2024. The drop is even steeper from 2023 to 2025; in 2023, there were 90,392 babies born.
Meanwhile, women are reportedly struggling to find access to legitimate OB/GYN services; the number of deaths from cervical cancer is rising. It isn't much of a surprise, considering the number of women who received screenings for cervical cancer fell from 871,196 in 2018 to just 197,457 in 2025 — a decrease of 77.3%.
Cuba has one of the highest abortion rates in the world. It is heavily promoted by the nation's Communist government, and past reports have indicated that infanticide has been practiced without consequence, while being labeled as “late-term abortion."
Reports from approximately two decades ago indicate that doctors had been using something known as the “Rivanol Method” for later abortions, in which they would inject 150 ml of a 0.1% Rivanol solution into the uterus. The drug was meant to force the placenta to detach, thus starving the preborn baby of oxygen and nutrients in an attempt to end the baby's life. Then labor was induced.
However, babies regularly survived. Instead of giving care to these survivors, they were either left to die or actively killed.
Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet became a whistleblower for this atrocity after participating in a 10-month study at Municipal Hospital of Havana in which thousands of women were given Rivanol, and 60% of their babies were born alive.
Biscet wrote that these babies were not given care; instead, "the umbilical cord was cut and they were allowed to bleed to death or they were wrapped in paper and asphyxiated."
Because Biscet exposed this infanticide, he was stripped of his medical license and thrown into prison multiple times, ultimately spending 25 years behind bars. He was released in 2011, and reportedly remains under heavy state surveillance in the country:
I spent more than 11 years in Cuban prisons. Not for any act of violence. I refused, as a physician, to stay silent about infants left to die after late-term abortions. I hung the national flag of Cuba upside down, the sailor's signal of a ship in distress, because I believed my country was one.
I met with other Cubans who wanted to speak their minds. For that I spent years in a solitary cell I could cross in a few steps.
... The political police still watch me closely and detain me often enough to make sure I get the message.
Another political prisoner, Lisdany Rodriguez Isaac, was reportedly pressured to abort her baby while in jail.
When a country dehumanizes human beings and promotes death of the most innocent, it is violating the human rights of its citizens.
Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.
Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
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