Article: ABORTION RATE DECLINES EXCEPT FOR LOW-INCOME.(News)

Article: Abortion Rate Drops Significantly
AP Online;  October 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... questioned whether the increase in the abortion rate among poor women had anything to ... surprised by a survey that shows the abortion rate climbing among low-income women. The overall U.S. abortion rate fell from 1994 to 2000, from 24 ...

Article: Abortions less common in U.S. than in 1994, but numbers rise ...
AP Worldstream;  October 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... survey that shows the abortion rate climbing among low-income women. The overall U.S. abortion rate fell from 1994 to ... the survey, the abortion rate rose 25 percent for ... evidence that low-income women have less access ...

Article: Abortion rate up in state, down nationwide
Capital (Annapolis);  January 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Maryland's abortion rate rose in the 1990s at ... period, it said, the abortion rate nationally fell from ... s relatively high abortion rate to a large African ... abortions are for low-income women, mainly for black ...

Article: Abortion Rate in U.S. Off Sharply; Contraceptives, ...
The Washington Post;  December 5, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... 21 million in 1995, the most recent year available. The abortion rate -- the number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to ... proving effective among a population of largely young, low-income women for whom other birth control methods were not effective ...

Article: ABORTION RATE'S DROP MAY END; EXPERTS SAY TRENDS ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  December 5, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... speculative. But two possible reasons include the advent of changes in the welfare system in many states, pushing low-income women into the work force, and the precipitous drop in the use of Norplant, a contraceptive implant paid for by welfare, which ...

Article: Prevention, and support for new parents, will reduce the ...
Conscience;  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Act, the only federal program dedicated to providing contraceptive and related reproductive health care services to low-income women. The most effective way to prevent unintended pregnancies and abortions is to improve access to safe, affordable and effective ...

Number of legal abortions, abortion rate, abortion ratios ...
Readings on Induced Abortion, Volume 2: A World Review 2000;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Number of legal abortion rate, abortion ratios and total abortion rate: Selected areas or years. ALBANIA Area and year ... 1990 11,800 1991 8,000 1992 1,400 1993 600 Abortion rate per 1,000 Area and year Women 15-44 (Reporting ...