Abortion Demographics Shift?

Editor's note: News of this "Abortion Demographic" report, splattered all over the corporate news media this morning, is from Planned Parenthood's Guttmacher Institute. That's like the fox guarding the hen house has published a "troubling report" on how many eggs are not being laid. Besides, we already know that more underage girls and young women today are aborting babies by using Bush's Plan B -- The Morning After Pill -- which the Guttmacher Institute does not count as abortion! Therefore, any "demographic" abortion reports from Guttmacher can be trusted no further than a man can pick up the Washington Monument and throw it.

Abortion Demographics Shift
By Rob Stein / The Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- The face of women getting abortions has shifted significantly in the past 30 years, with relatively fewer white childless teenagers and more mothers of color in their 20s and 30s opting to terminate their pregnancies, according to a report being released today. In the first comprehensive analysis since 1974 of demographic characteristics of women getting abortions, researchers found the drop in the abortion rate has been marked by a dramatic shift, declining more for white women and teenagers than for black, Hispanic and older women. "There's been a real change in the picture of women who get abortions," said Rachel Jones, a senior research associate at the Guttmacher Institute, a private nonprofit reproductive health research organization considered to be one of the most authoritative sources on abortion trends.
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Abortion Rate Is Down, But Report Cites Racial Disparity
By Mary Engel / The Los Angeles Times
Although the overall U.S. abortion rate is at its lowest level since 1974, the drop has been far more dramatic for whites than for African Americans, who in 2004 had abortions at five times the rate of white women, according to a report released Monday. The abortion rate for Latinas was about three times that of whites. The Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based research group that supports abortion rights but whose statistics are generally respected by antiabortion groups, analyzed 30 years of data since the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

The Changing Face of Abortion
By Sarah Kliff / Newsweek
Abortion rates have dropped steadily since the 1980s, from a peak of 29.3 abortions per 1,000 women in 1981 to 19.4 in 2005. But behind this general decrease are striking changes in the demographics of abortion. Compared to 30 years ago, women having abortions today are older and more likely to be mothers and minorities, according to a study released Tuesday by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Guttmacher Institute.

Posted by Editor at September 23, 2008 06:53 AM