Abortion Rates Decline—Except for Among the Poor

While the overall trend is encouraging, the increase in abortions among the poor is cause for concern :

Abortion rates fell among most groups of women between 2000 and 2008, except for those classified as poor, finds an analysis conducted by the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute and published online today in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology .

Guttmacher, which has been tracking abortion since 1974, found that the abortion rate for low-income women increased 18% during the same period that the national rate dropped 8%.

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