Abortion Rate Keeps Falling

According to a recent report from the Guttmacher Institute, the U.S. abortion rate has dropped to its lowest since 1973, the year Roe v. Wade took effect. From 2008 to 2011, just 16.9 out of 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 45 had an abortion.  This confirms a 2012 report by the CDC that found that the abortion rate plummeted in 2009, after having…