Sentences with phrase «abortion rate declined»

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

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Somewhat dubious, I searched for the data, which reveals the pro-lifer was right on the facts but offering an unsupported interpretation: The study showed that the maternal mortality rate declined after abortion was prohibited in 1989, but that it had already been declining for more than a decade, probably as a result of rising levels of women's education.

Their conservative leanings are part of a broader trend increasingly documented in freshman surveys, federal statistics, and public opinion polls, which have found declining rates of approval for casual sex and legal abortion among the young and a rise in the percentage of teenagers who say they are virgins.

Abortion rates are declining — as are rates of conception.

The Associated Press (AP) verified the abortion rate drop in an independent study last summer, which found that the decline was sharper in many pro-choice states...

Tough economic times may be responsible for America's declining abortion rate, which is at a 10 - year low.

Pro-life advocates welcomed the report, and pointed to the work of pro-life citizens and legislators as a reason for the dramatic decline in abortions and their rate.

The Guttmacher Institute reported Tuesday (Jan. 17) the rate fell to 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women 15 to 44 years old in 2014, which is a decline of 14 percent since its most recent survey in 2011.

Abortion rates have been declining since the early 2000s, but the rate of decrease appears to have peaked at the height of the economic recession.

The birth rate has declined, and the abortion rate has climbed from less than 1 percent of live births to over 20 percent.

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

The reason for this decline is not fully understood, but it has been attributed to the increasing use of contraceptives, especially long - acting methods such as intrauterine devices, historic declines in the rate of unintended pregnancy and increasing numbers of state regulations that limit the availability of otherwise legal abortion services.

Randall O'Bannon, director of education and research for the National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund, said the abortion rate is declining because «people's attitudes and actions regarding abortion have changed.»

Maternal mortality rates released earlier this year by a group of UN agencies including WHO, showed far greater declines, indicating that progress in reducing unsafe abortion lags behind other efforts to improve women's health worldwide.

A new study by the Guttmacher Institute released last week, U.S. Teen Pregnancies, Births and Abortions, 2008: National Trends by Age, Race and Ethnicity, found that pregnancy rates have declined dramatically among all teens over the past two decades, and that these declines have been primarily driven by improved use of contraception, particularly increases in the use of highly effective methods and dual use of contraception and condoms.

Recent declines in rates of pregnancies and abortions are directly linked to effective programs like America's family planning program, Title X, and to medically accurate, comprehensive sex education.

These estimates reveal that the annual number of unsafe abortions has risen as the world's population has grown, but that better access to contraception and safe abortion contributed to a modest decline in rates of unsafe abortion in many regions of the world.

maternal mortality rates have declined over the last decade, and family planning, which prevents unsafe abortion, was a key factor in this.