Sentences with phrase «abortion rate»

In mentioning his own opposition to abortion, he speaks of the hope he has that increased sexual education and contraception will lower abortion rates.

After adjusting for lower levels of sexual activity among adolescents however, we find that adolescents have the highest abortion rate among all age - groups.

Overall, there is no body of peer reviewed research which shows that increased welfare spending reduces abortion rates.

But none of the questions surround the horrific global abortion rate of one out of every four pregnancies.

The teen birth rate dropped 40 % from 2009 to 2013, while the teen abortion rate fell 42 %.

Conversely, over the past 25 years, North American abortion rates have dropped by 40 percent.

One of the first things you notice is that global abortion rates vary widely.

The increase in rates of dangerous abortions and the failure of total abortion rates to continue falling has previously been blamed on shortages of contraception — a link the new study makes too.

The researchers say that to get abortion rates falling again, aid for family planning and contraception needs to be drastically stepped up.

We use innovative tools to increase access to health information and services, including birth control, as well as improve maternal mortality and unsafe abortion rates.

Economic assistance to low income families is correlated with a 20 % lower abortion rate.

Another report finds making birth control more accessible to women also reduces abortion rates.

The age group with the highest abortion rate is young women between 18 and 24, the age of most students.

The latest numbers show that the American abortion rate is at its lowest point since 1973.

Global abortion rates have stopped falling, ending a period of rapid decline that began in 1995.

We can now expect a net decrease in abortion rates in British Columbia and nationwide.

Which means, that their per capita abortion rate for that group of Protestant, Catholic or Jewish women is lower.

«Official abortion rate declined in Texas after law restricted access to clinics.»

We moan that our country is going down the tubes, with abortion rates at an all - time high, when we don't use the power we have to elect men and women that want to see it outlawed.

The Chiaroscuro Foundation has released data on New York City's high abortion rate by zip code.

Adolescents have the lowest abortion rate among all women below age 35 (19.6 per 1,000 women).

Catholics were found to be the worst offenders, with abortion rates higher than the national average.

Last month, The Lancet journal revealed the latest results from a study on abortion trends calling for a new response to the stagnant or increasing abortion rates of the developing...

So as this study reveals that the legal status of abortion plays a statistically non existent role in affecting abortion rates, we will need to rethink those energies.

In the St. Louis area, the overall abortion rate in that time frame was between 13.4 and 17 abortions per 1,000 women.

The research evidence on this question is hard to deny and right in line with the predictions of the economic models: prohibition of secret abortions cuts both teenage abortion rates and teenage pregnancy rates.

FRIDAY, Dec. 11, 2015 (HealthDay News)-- The U.S. abortion rate has declined by more than one - third over the past two decades to a record low, federal officials reported Friday.

Eran Bendavid at Stanford University, California, studied abortion rates in 20 African countries affected by the Bush restrictions on funding.

In Sweden, for example, an increase in affordable access to contraception and the presence of free contraceptive counseling have paralleled a substantial increase in the teen abortion rate.

Proponents for an individual's reproductive rights support data suggesting comprehensive sex education and birth control reduce abortion rates when young people have access to them.

Recent research has revealed startling abortion rates.

He argues that the reason why abortion rates are lower in Germany is because they have more generous social programs.

Do the math and it is easy to see how the failure rate of the Pill and male condoms relates directly to such a high abortion rate!!!

Secondly, I question wheth greater availability of contraceptives has improved abortion rates or STD rates.

«Bloomberg and Quinn use the schools as an experiment in birth and population control, they have completely disregarded the astounding abortion rates and ratios in New York,» Slattery said.

The age - standardised abortion rate was 17.5 per 1,000 resident women aged 15 - 44, the same as in 2009, but 3 % higher than in 2000 (17.0) and more than double the rate of 8.0 recorded in 1970.

In reaction to the city's stagnant 41 percent abortion rate (essentially two of every five New York City pregnancies end in abortion), Bronx State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. said today that abortion is an attack on minorities.

«All those countries with good informed consent legislation had significantly lower than average daily abortion rates than the countries that do not have such informed consent legislation.

As a result, the researchers found, both teen births and overall abortion rates plummeted.