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In 1999, a total of 861,789 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] by 48 reporting areas [excluding...
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Understandably, pro-lifers focus on the total number of abortions occurring each hour, each day, and each year. Every child killed by abortion represe...
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...'s right to choose whether to have an abortion. Roe v. Wade, 410 U. S. 113 ; Planned Parenth... most recent year for which abortion statistics are available from the Centers for Disease Control...
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While the number of abortions skyrocketed when abortion was legalized in 1973, peaking at 1.6 million in 1990, fortunately the annual totals have sinc...
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...Abortions means induced pregnancy terminations, including bo... which the National Center for Health Statistics has released final birth data by State. Most recen...
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WASHINGTON Oct. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On Tuesday, October 19, Catholics for a Free Choice and other prochoice organizations sponsored a special advance screening of Mike Leigh's new film about back-alley abortion, Vera Drake.
Leigh's latest film reminds viewers of the history of illegal abortion and its potential future. By taking a sober look at a provider of illegal abortion in 1950s' London, Vera Drake makes clear that when access to legal abortion is denied, women resort to back alleys.
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During decades of American debate about abortion and abortion rights, some voices have made this complaint: both sides devote too much energy to political warfare and too little to providing alternatives to abortion and preventing unwanted pregnancies.
But statistics now suggest that people are finding alternatives. According to the Ohio Department of Health, abortions have declined in number for 10 years in a row, reaching their lowest point since 1976, when records first started being kept.
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BRIDGEPORT (AP)-- Figures show that while the number of abortions is decreasing nationally, they have been increasing in Connecticut in recent years. The numbers show abortions in the state increased by about 2,000 in 2006 and then rose another 422 last year.
But officials at Planned Parenthood and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which compiles and analyzes abortion statistics, say people should not read too much into the increase.
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Roughly a fourth of American women getting early abortions last year did so with drugs rather than surgery, statistics show, as a new study reported improved safety in using the so-called "abortion pill.
Some experts predict the percentage of such "medical abortions," which offer more privacy than surgical termination at an abortion clinic or hospital, will rise even more due to the new study.
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TRENTON, New Jersey - Roughly a fourth of American women getting early abortions last year did so with drugs rather than surgery, statistics show, as a new study reported improved safety in using the so-called "abortion pill.
Some experts predict the percentage of such "medical abortions," which offer more privacy than surgical termination at an abortion clinic or hospital, will rise even more due to the new study.