NEW YORK — Abortions in the United States fell 5 percent during the recession and its aftermath in the biggest one-year decrease in at least a decade, perhaps because women are more careful to use birth control when times are tough, researchers say.
The decline, detailed on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, came in 2009, the most recent year for which statistics are available. Both the number of abortions and the abortion rate dropped by the same percentage.
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I would also suggest, that besides economic reasons, a significant cause for the decline had to do with the record number of new restrictive abortion laws -- targeting a woman's right to choose -- were sadly passed and implemented in dozens of states over the last two years.
Targeting a right to choose what... Murder
Why did the Globe choose to print the number of the abortion rate for white women, about 8.5 per 1000, and that of hispanic women, about 19 per 1000, but not that of black women? It wrote out that number as about 4 times that of white women, would that be because about 34 per 1000 is too glaring for its delicate sensibilities?
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Most research suggests that a reduction in abortion rates correlates with availability of reliable birth control. Restrictive laws generally do NOT reduce the number of abortions, merely shifts the procedure from medically safe to backroom and dangerous. Which, I guess would reduce the number of abortions that "counted".