Posted on 09/23/2008 5:13:59 PM PDT by mathprof
Abortions in the United States fell 33 percent between 1974 and 2004, but sizeable differences among racial and economic groups continue to exist as to who gets an abortion, a new report says.
While the number of abortions among teens has also dropped dramatically, down 50 percent, abortion rates are still high among older women with children and poor women, according to the report from the Guttmacher Institute.
"There's been a shift in the population of women obtaining abortions relative to 30 years ago," said Rachel Jones, a senior research associate at the institute. "They are older, they are more likely to be unmarried, more likely to be mothers, and they are more likely to be women of color."
One of the largest factors in the decline has been the drop in teenage pregnancies and abortions, Jones said. "We've done a lot of work addressing teen pregnancy, including comprehensive sex education, access to contraceptive services and providing kids with information to help them delay sexual activity," she said.
Most U.S. women having abortions today come from lower income groups, she said.
The rate of abortions in the United States has dropped 33 percent from 1974 to 2004. In 1980 there were 29 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44; by 2004, that number had dropped to 20 per 1,000 women, according to the report.
While the abortion rate has dropped among all racial groups, it remains three times higher among Hispanic women and five times higher among black women, compared to white women, the report found.
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Obama would say too many women are being punished...
From the rather weak data they provide it would appear that the abortion rate has dropped in the Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II administrations.
You'd think Blacks would wake up to what the leftist 'rats are doing to them...but nooo...just keep on a-hopin' there, folks. Maybe it'll all "change" someday.
In God’s eyes, one is as important as 30+ million and the thought of that gives me the chills...
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Maybe hearts and minds are changing, Praise be to God!
Must have been many, many more that they claimed.....hmmm?
US Abortion Rate at 30-year low: Liberal women and Planned Parenthood Hardest hit
And the clipped-haired raging chubby feminists are outraged!
(Dears: think about it. You're killing yourselves off. You're doing it to yourselves.)
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