The Nation : U.S. Abortions Decrease
The number of American women getting abortions declined for the first time since 1969 when federal abortion surveillance began, the National Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported. The CDC also said the abortion rate among teen-agers continued to decrease. In its surveillance summary, the CDC reported that in 1983, the most recent year for which statistics are available, there were 1,268,987 reported legal abortions, 34,993 fewer than the 1,303,980 the previous year. The national abortion rate decreased from 24 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 in 1982 to 23 per 1,000 women in 1983.
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