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Abortion rates have fallen to their lowest level since the pregnancy-terminating procedure was legalised in a 1973 Supreme Court decision, according to a new report. But experts say the reason for the decline can be hard to isolate.
Despite nearly a decade of efforts by conservative state and county politicians to restrict abortion access, Guttmacher says the decline is not necessarily linked to new laws.Media playback is unsupported on your deviceThe authors of the Guttmacher report - which is periodically compiled based on hospital and abortion clinic surveys - found that one reason for the decrease could be due to better access to contraception and improvement in female contraception devices.
She cautions that the report shows the national average, but does not tell individual stories. For example, although the average distance women travelled for an abortion in 2014 was 34 miles , some women were forced to travel much further for the same procedure. Nearly four in 10 abortions in 2017 were performed using abortion pills instead of surgery, the report notes.Between 2011 to 2017, 32 states enacted a total of 394 new restrictions on abortion. Some of the harshest restrictions to date were passed by conservative-leaning states in 2018, after the latest Guttmacher survey was conducted, but several of those restrictions have been temporarily blocked by the courts.
However, Ms Nash from Guttmacher says that while the regional restrictions"certainly play a role" in the national rate drop,"the numbers don't tell the whole story". Both the birth rate - the number of births per thousand - and fertility - a lifetime average forecast - fell to their lowest level in 30 years, according to the 2018 report.
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