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Article: Nation's Abortion Rate Hits 18-Year Low
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 16, 1994
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WASHINGTON The nation's abortion rate has fallen to its lowest
level since 1976, and a study says the reason is a combination of
fewer doctors doing abortions and more unmarried women choosing to go
on with pregnancies.
In 1992, about 1,528,900 women had abortions in the United
States, compared with about 1,608,600 in 1990, a drop of nearly
80,000 abortions, according to research by the Alan Guttmacher
Institute, which specializes in studies of reproductive health.
The institute found that the U.S. abortion rate peaked in 1980
and 1981, when 29.3 women out of every 1,000 ages 15 to 44 had an
abortion. The 1992 rate was 25.9 abortions per 1,000 women, the
lowest since the 1976 rate of ...