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U.S. Abortion Rate at 30-Year Low

TUESDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Abortions in the United States fell 33 percent between 1974 and 2004, but sizeable differences among racial and economic groups continue to exist as to who gets an abortion, a new report says.

While the number of abortions among teens has also dropped dramatically, down 50 percent, abortion rates are still high among older women with children and poor women, according to the report from the Guttmacher Institute.
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One of the largest factors in the decline has been the drop in teenage pregnancies and abortions, Jones said. "We've done a lot of work addressing teen pregnancy, including comprehensive sex education, access to contraceptive services and providing kids with information to help them delay sexual activity," she said.
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Wendy Wright is executive vice president of Concerned Women for America, which describes itself as the "nation's largest public policy women's organization" that strives to "bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy."

She said the new report was designed to get more funding for contraception and education about contraception, so it can't be taken as "gospel truth."

Wright doesn't agree that abortion is a consequence of unintended pregnancy. "In talking with women who have had abortions, we find that there are many reasons for abortions, other than the 'oops' factor," she said. "Many women felt that they were coerced into it -- they may have wanted the baby, but they were pressured into an abortion by other people -- boyfriend, husband, parents, jobs, universities or such."

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Leave it to a religious wacko to take good news - and the logical reasons for the good news - and try to twist it around to try to stop the policies that have resulted in less abortions.

Once again, they prove that they don't actually care about the results, they only care about their religious views. It doesn't matter to them that if they get their way there will be more abortions - that will only mean that have something more to get upset about, which seems to be all they care about.