In the St. Louis area,
the overall abortion rate in that time frame was between 13.4 and 17 abortions per 1,000 women.
Not exact matches
Some of these youngsters will get pregnant when they would not have done otherwise and the
overall teenage pregnancy (births and
abortions combined)
rate is likely to increase.
Overall, there is no body of peer reviewed research which shows that increased welfare spending reduces
abortion rates.
Further, on average and generally speaking, atheists have fewer divorces,
abortions, and STDs, and lower poverty
rates, homicide
rates,
overall crime
rates, and teen pregnancy
rates.
Because research looked at the years of 2008 - 2011, the Institute says that the falling numbers were not the result of recent
abortion - restricting legislative measures; instead, they pointed to the
overall falling birth
rate and greater access to contraception.