Article: Abortion surveillance: preliminary analysis - United States, 1995.

For 1995, CDC received data about legal induced abortions from the 50 states, New York City, and the District of Columbia. This report presents preliminary data for 1995; final abortion data for 1995 will be published during spring 1998. In 1995, a total of 1,210,883 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC (Table 1), a decrease of 4.5% from the number reported for 1994 (1). The number of live births decreased by 1.5% over the same period. From 1994 to 1995, the number of reported abortions decreased in 40 of 52 reporting areas. From 1994 to 1995, the national abortion ratio (number of legal abortions per 1000 live births reported by all reporting areas) decreased ...

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