Wonderful News: the Abortion Rate Keeps Dropping, Lower and Lower
Sometimes good news comes along and it seems like almost no one notices:
The abortion rate in the US has fallen to its lowest level since Roe v. Wade legalized the procedure, a new report finds.
The report, by the Guttmacher Institute, found the rate has declined to 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women of, what is considered, childbearing age (that’s 15 to 44). That’s the lowest rate recorded since the landmark Supreme Court decision in 1973.
Another notable finding: the annual number of abortions in the US has dropped to under 1 million for the first time since the mid-1970s. It reached its peak of more than 1.6 million abortions in 1990.
.. There appeared to be no correlation between the number of clinics and abortion rates.
The number of clinics in the Midwest declined 22% during the study period, for instance, while the abortion rate in that region declined 9%.
In the Northeast, however, the number of clinics increased 14% and the abortion rate declined 11% between 2011 and 2014.