Report: Overall abortion rates continue to drop

This is good news. There will always be analysis regarding what exactly caused this trend and some people will take issue with the numbers, because there's always someone who takes issue with the numbers. But in the end, abortion is murder and it is always a good thing to have the murder rate go down.

USA Today that "The abortion rate in the USA fell to its lowest point in more than 30 years, and the actual number of abortions also continues a steady decline."

The Alan Guttmacher Institute, "a non-profit that has been tracking abortion since 1974", surveyed abortion providers when gathering their report.

Conclusions noted include, abortions going from 1.6 million in 1990 to 1.2 million in 2005, the abortion rate dropping by 9% to 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15-44 by 2005, and the number of abortion providers decreasing to 1,787, a 2% decline from 2000.

Source:

Jayson, Sharon, "Report: Overall abortion rates continue to drop", USA Today, January 18th, AD 2008, found at http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-01-16-abortion-rates_N.htm, accessed 10/02/2008.