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Teen abortions drop to lowest number since Roe.
Statistics just released by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) show teens reporting fewer abortions and a lower abortion rate than any time since abortion became legal nationwide in 1973.
According to AGI, women under 20 reported having 249,660 abortions in 1999, some 8,000 fewer than the year before. That was the lowest number since 1973, when there were 243,530 teen abortions.
The total number of abortions annually for teenagers was consistently above 300,000 from 1975 to 1993. The peak figure came in 1979 - - 460,820 abortions.
Population shifts might account for some of the decline, as the bubble of baby boomers aged. However, the abortion rate (measured by AGI as the number of abortions per 1,000 women) demonstrates that abortion is becoming a less common feature of these young women's lives.
For 1999, the abortion rate for women under 20 stood at 25.6 per thousand, again the lowest since 1973, when it was 23.9 per thousand. The abortion rate first climbed over 30 per thousand in 1975.
For the period 1978 through 1990, the figure climbed into the 40s per thousand, peaking at 45.4 in 1985. The number did not drop below 30 per thousand until 1996.
Pregnancy rates (an AGI estimate of the number of pregnancies per thousand women), also fell during the same period that abortion rates fell for teens. Thus some of that decrease was a matter of fewer ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Teen abortions drop to lowest number since Roe.