{"id":175318,"date":"2017-11-25T13:56:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T18:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=175318"},"modified":"2017-11-27T10:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T15:39:45","slug":"abortions-drop-20-percent-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortions-drop-20-percent-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortions have dropped 20 percent over the last 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A newly released abortion statistics report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reveals a reduction in the number of abortions reported in 2014. According to the CDC, over the last 10 years, abortion has seen a significant drop in the United States, with a 20 percent decrease.<\/p>\n

CDC’s Abortion Surveillance report<\/a>, released on November 22, 2017, states that 652,639 abortions were reported in 2014. This represents a two percent drop from 2013<\/a>. In addition to abortion totals, the abortion rate also decreased two percent (from 12.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15\u201344 years), and the abortion ratio decreased 7 percent (from 199 abortions per 1,000 live births). The CDC report also revealed\u00a0that four women died from legal abortion in 2013.<\/p>\n

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CDC Abortion Statistics for 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

In October of 2017, Guttmacher,\u00a0the former \u201cspecial affiliate<\/a>\u201d and research arm of Planned Parenthood,\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0an abortion total of 926,200 in 2014, far more than what the CDC claims. The CDC admits it was “unable to obtain the total number,” and pointed to “requirements by the individual reporting areas” as a reason. The CDC claims Guttmacher’s numbers are higher because Guttmacher uses “numerous active follow-up techniques to increase the completeness of the data obtained through its periodic national census of abortion providers,” a fact\u00a0Live Action News has previously documented<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neither the CDC nor Guttmacher counts the use of emergency contraception<\/a> such as Ella or Plan B in their abortion numbers. This is despite the fact that each of these drugs clearly state on their label that they can prevent implantation, thus aborting a life that has begun. (There would be no way of knowing if these drugs had actually caused an abortion in a particular instance, however, and therefore, there is no way to report.)<\/p>\n

The CDC’s\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0indicates that abortion data was provided voluntarily by the central health agencies of 49 reporting areas (the District of Columbia; New York City; and 47 states, excluding California, Maryland, and New Hampshire). Here are a few key findings:<\/p>\n

Previous Abortions<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fact that women have multiple abortions is kept fairly quiet by the abortion industry, but the CDC report reveals that this does indeed occur, and more than you might expect. In 2014, there were 40 areas in the U.S. that reported the number of previous abortions, as follows:<\/p>\n