Abortion rate falls to new low
The U.S. abortion rate has fallen to its lowest level since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, according to a new study by the Guttmacher Institute. The 1.1 million abortions performed in 2011 represented a rate of 16.9 per 1,000 women of childbearing age, continuing a decline from a peak of 29.3 in 1980. The institute’s researchers attributed most of the decline to more widespread use of birth control methods such as the pill and the IUD.
The Washington Post
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