Abortion Rate Plunges

In 2009, according to a just-released CDC report, both the number and rate of U.S. abortions fell faster in one year—5 percent—than ever before measured. The sudden fall, arriving after a plateauing of the abortion rate from 2005 to 2008, resumes an earlier decline that took place from the late 1980s all the way through the early 2000s. From 1990 to 200…