Some Good News For a Change: Abortion Rates Fall to Historic Lows
Well, we seem to be used to bad news these days, but here is some good news: abortion rates seem to have fallen to record lows.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) the rate of abortions in the USA have reached "historic lows" with a double-digit drop over the last decade.
This is something the pro-life movement has been laboring over for decades. Now it looks like some fruit is being had from the labor.
The number of women having abortions dropped 13 percent between 2002 and 2011, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show.That trend is likely due to lingering effects of the recession, reproductive health experts, such as those at the Guttmacher Institute, have said.
The report also shed light on the number of abortions performed after the politically charged timeframe of 20 weeks of gestation.Just 1.4 percent of abortions took place after 20 weeks, which has been the center point of debate in recent years as Republicans, including incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have vowed to introduce legislation banning abortions after that timeline....The rate of abortions decreased among women in every age group except those younger than 15 years old, which increased slightly but remained less than 1 percent of all procedures.
The idea that it should be legal, safe, but rare is starting to win out.
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Written by Warner Todd Huston for Patriot Action Network and LibertyNews.com.
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