Stroock Aborted II

The abortion rate per 1000 births was 16.3 in 1973, peeked at 29.3 in 1981 and plummeted to 14.5 by 2014.

To put it another way, there were 1,300,000 or so abortions in 1981, and 640,000 or so abortions in 2018.

What gives?

At first we credited (blamed?) the Generation X demographic plunge. After all if there's fewer young people in 1993 than 1973 there's gonna be fewer abortions, right?

But the abortion rate continued to plummet right through last year, when there were waaaaay too many Millennials running around (I kid, guys, I kid).

Has there been a cultural shift? W did call for a culture of life in the 2000s.  Remember Juno?*

Restrictions? I dunno. While they may be restricting abortion in Texas they're giving out free abortion coupons in California.

Whatever the reason, we think the decline in the abortion rate is a good thing, no?

*Ok, that's totally gay.

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So we've done some research on abortion in the United States and found some interesting statistics.* Also interesting, the Abolitionist movement owns the search results. That is, if one searches for abortion stats, one finds pro-life sites. Even more interestingly, our search for abortion stats has led Google to flood us with birth control and OBGYN ads.

First off, since the Roe v Wade decision in 1973, abortion has never been less common as it is right now. The abortion rate peaked in the late 70's with  29.3 percent of all pregnancies ending with termination. In 2014 the rate was 14.6. That comes to just over a million abortions per year.

75% of these abortions were performed on 'low income or poor' people; 25% were black, 28% Hispanic.

The reasons for the steep decline in the abortion rate seems difficult to determine. We're willing to chalk it up to availability of multiple birth control options as well as the Abolitionist movement changing minds.

*This is a pro-abortion organization.