The latest statistics demonstrate once again reported abortions in the United States have continued to decline.
The number of abortions fell in one year by more than 13,000 to 623,471 in 2016, the latest year for which data is available, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a Nov. 29 report. That 2 percent drop matched a 2 percent decrease in the abortion rate to 11.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years, according to the CDC. The abortion ratio -- the number of abortions per 1,000 live births -- decreased by 1 percent to 188 in the same time period.
The CDC -- a division of the Department of Health and Human Services -- also reported a dramatic decline in abortion prevalence during the decade of 2007 to 2016:...