Abortion Decline in US Leads to Long-Term Reduction in Infant Mortality Rates

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
July 31, 2008

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Americans received good news back in January when new figures from Planned Parenthood's research group showed the number of abortions nationwide have fallen to their lowest point in 30 years and have declined 25 percent since 1990. That has resulted in a drop in the nation's infant mortality rate.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute report found just over 1.2 million abortions in the United States in 2005, down nearly 25% from their high of 1.6 million in 1990.

The last time the number of abortions was that low was 1976 -- just three years after Roe v. Wade. The abortion rate (the number of abortions per 1,000 women age 15-44) came in at 19.4 per thousand in 2005 -- the lowest since 1974. the rest

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