U.S. Abortion Rate Drops for 2nd Year
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The nation’s abortion rate fell in 1995 for the second straight year, reaching the lowest level in two decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Twenty of every 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44 had abortions in 1995, the lowest rate since 1975 and a slight drop from the rate of 21 per 1,000 in 1994.
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