A report on abortion from The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Reproductive Health Services said the following:
“In the immediate years after national legalization, both the number and rate of legal abortion steadily increased. The abortion rate peaked in the 1980s, and the trend then reversed, a decline that has continued for more than three decades. Between 1980 and 2014, the abortion rate among US women fell by more than half, from 29.3 to 14.6 per 1000 women.
In 2014, the most recent year for which data are available, the aggregate number of abortions reached a low of 926,190 after peaking at nearly 1.6 million in 1990.
The reason for the decline is not fully understood but has been attributed to several factors, including…increasing numbers of state regulations resulting in limited access to abortion services.”
The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Reproductive Health Services The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2018) 26 – 28
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