New Abortion Rate Data: Rate Did Not Increase Nationally Under Bush, but Decrease Rate Slowed

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Good news and good newer numbers to work with on the abortion issue. "A new analysis from The Alan Guttmacher Institute shows that U.S. abortion rates continued to decline in 2001 and 2002, although the rate of decline has slowed since the early 1990s. The Institute estimates that 1,303,000 abortions took place in the United States in 2001?0.8% fewer than the 1,313,000 in 2000. In 2002, the number of abortions declined again, to 1,293,000, or another 0.8%." And in the report they note that: "Be ... (more)  

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