U.S. abortion rates stall after 30-year decline

The abortion rate has level off subsequent to near 30 years of fixed turn down, a revise by the Guttmacher establishment said on Tuesday.

By the same time, the percentage of premature drug-induced terminations surrounded by all abortions has bigger, said Rachel Jones, spokeswoman for Guttmacher, an institute aimed at advance sexual and reproductive health.

The Guttmacher learn of women in the United States show that in 2008, the nearly all recent year for which data were obtainable, the abortion rate stood at 19.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, almost unaffected from the 2005 rate of 19.4 abortions.

It noticeable the first time seeing as 1981, when the rate pointed at 29.3 abortions, that the numbers have not decline.

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