Yesterday I commented on the rising birth rate and birth numbers in the U.S. We are doing far better than the rest of the developed world, though we still are barely at the population replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman. (See story below.)
Today comes a report from the Guttmacher Institute that reports a decline in abortions. There were four hundred thousand fewer abortions in 2005 than in 1990. Nobody knows why, though I would give a lot of credit to ultra-sound and the word about it that has traveled among the female population. With ultra-sound you can see without question that what you are carrying is.....a baby.
Guttmacher is pro-choice in its politics, but in instances I have noted over the years, it has done creditable work on statistical matters.
Here is the story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080117/hl_hsn/usabortionratefallstolowestlevelindecades
