US abortions fall 5%, biggest drop in a decade
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. abortions fell 5 percent during the recession and its aftermath in the biggest one-year decrease in at least a decade, perhaps because women are more careful to use birth control when times are tough, researchers say.
The decline, detailed on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, came in 2009, the most recent year for which statistics are available. Both the number of abortions and the abortion rate dropped by the same percentage.
Some experts theorize that some women believed they couldn't afford to get pregnant.
"They stick to straight and narrow ... and they are more careful about birth control," said Elizabeth Ananat, a Duke University assistant professor of public policy and economics who has researched abortions.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-abortions-fall-5-pct-biggest-drop-decade#overlay-context=article/un-congo-rebellion-stretching-peacekeeping-force
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- damn, but isn't that a nicely coded phrase for 'good girls keep their knickers up' . . . 
It would be nice to see a corollary study of the increase in births, before they conclude that the increasing restrictions on abortion are not relevant to the decrease.
The only comment to that effect in the article was this:
How can they claim that access doesn't impact the numbers?
I was just on Free Republic, and I thought that Obama was so pro-abortion, he performs them every week for free in the White House, funded completely by Medicaid!?!? 
