Abortion: Just the Data. New Report Shows Procedure's Numbers Down

Washington Post ^ | 7/19/05 | Naseem Sowti

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

A new analysis of the most recent abortion data shows that the number of U.S. women having the procedure is continuing its decade-long drop and stands at its lowest level since 1976.

In the year 2002, about 1.29 million women in the U.S. had abortions. In 1990, that number was 1.61 million.

The data, collected by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit group that collects information from abortion providers and public sources, show that for every 1,000 pregnancies that did not result in miscarriage in 2002, there were 242 abortions. This figure was 245 in 2000 and 280 in 1990. The institute's mission is to protect reproductive choice, but its reports are considered accurate across the political spectrum.

With President Bush preparing to nominate at least one new Supreme Court justice whose presence on the high court could produce new rulings on abortion, the data are already being interpreted differently by abortion rights advocates and antiabortion activists. But scientists say it is difficult to determine why the number of abortions has been dropping....

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Of interest, Governor Pataki and Women's Rights

[Izzy Dunne]

for every 1,000 pregnancies that did not result in miscarriage in 2002, there were 242 abortions.

TWENTY-FOUR PERCENT infant mortality rate!

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

There's a big minority of women who have multiple abortions, and may thus be scewering the numbers.

[Izzy Dunne]

There's a big minority of women who have multiple abortions, and may thus be scewering the numbers.

Perhaps you mean "skewing".

The article said "Of every 1000 pregnancies". Not 1000 women - 1000 babies.

[frogjerk]

A new analysis of the most recent abortion data shows that the number of U.S. women having the procedure is continuing its decade-long drop and stands at its lowest level since 1976.

So then through out Roe vs. Wade...

[AbeKrieger]

This is terrible news for NOW and NARAL. This is THE ISSUE... and if numbers are being reduced they will need to address that with their militant activism. They have to get more abortions out there.

[HHFi]

Maybe abortion has been legal for so long that people who come from families that would tolerate or accept it are now getting too old to get pregnant, and their daughters aren't having abortions themselves because, well...their daughters were all aborted.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

My bet is the women were brainwashed into the feminazi focus, concentrate on business, and realized time was running out. I think abstinence has become more of a religious issue