USA Today: Abortion rates fall, except among poor women
Abortion rates fell among most groups of women from 2000 to 2008, but rose for those classified as poor, finds an analysis conducted by the non-profit Guttmacher Institute and published Monday in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.
The rate for poor women increased 18%, while the national rate dropped 8%, finds Guttmacher, which has been tracking abortions since 1974.
Low-income women (earning $17,170 or less in a three-person household, for example) accounted for 514,040 abortions — 42% of all U.S. abortions in 2008. The rate for low-income women ages 15 to 44 rose from 44.4 abortions per 1,000 women in 2000 to 52.2 in 2008, the highest of all subgroups studied. The national rate in 2008 was 19.6 per 1,000, a drop from 21.3 in 2000. ...
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