The abortion rate has hit a 30-year low, but anti-choicers had
nothing to do with it. The true force behind the drop in the number of
abortions is contraception, brought to you by Planned Parenthood and
pro-choice activists who have effectively made it universal.
That’s right: universal. About 99 percent of sexually active women
have used birth control before and a great majority are still using it.
The worrying thing is, however, these numbers were true before
conservatives started shutting down clinics left and right.
Slate:
[According to] the Guttmacher Institute, which records the abortion
rate by surveying the known abortion providers in the country… between
2008 and 2011, the number of abortions fell to 1.1 million a year, a
drop of 13 percent. Overall, abortion has been in a long-term decline
for most of the time it’s been legal. In 1981, 29 women per 1,000 ages
15-44 had an abortion. In 2011, it was only 17 per 1,000.
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