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May 12th, 2016 
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Susanne Posel,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Brands
Researchers with the Guttmacher Institute say abortion is controversial but never more than in developed nations where the number of procedures have dramatically dropped in the last decade.
Using statistical data garnered from national surveys, official government statistics, and other published and unpublished studies, to create predictive models , the researchers examined how prevalent abortion is across the globe.
For married women, an average 3/4ths had the procedure done; shattering the assumption that abortion is just for unwed teenagers.
In fact, an average of 56 million abortions were performed from 2010 to 2014, which means that for every 1,000 women of child-bearing age, 35 procedures took place. But that number is significantly lower when compared to a decade ago.
From 1990 to 1994, an average of 40 abortions were performed per every 1,000 women. The researchers warn this “global picture masks differences between the developed and developing world.”
In the US, abortion rates have been on a downward spiral for over 2 decades, meaning that there were 27 abortions for every 1,000 American women during 2010 to 2010. Only 7 million procedures have been performed as opposed to 12 million in the 1990s.
This phenomenon might be associated with a “desire for smaller families and precisely timed births” which has worked better than “contraceptive use”.
And when it comes to outlawing abortion, the findings showed that “restrictive abortion laws do not limit the number of abortions” sought by women.
Criminalizing abortion “does not prevent it but, rather, drives women to seek illegal services or methods.”
Gild Sedgh, lead author of the study, explained that abortion rates are falling “largely due to increased use of modern contraception.”
Sedgh continued: “In developing countries, however, family planning services do not seem to be keeping up with the increasing desire for smaller families. More than 80% of unintended pregnancies are experienced by women with an unmet need for modern methods of contraception, and many unwanted pregnancies end in abortion.”
Regardless of these facts, abortion has an uphill battle to remain legal in the US. In 2013 the US Supreme Court upheld one of the provisions of a new law that will restrict access to abortions. Five Justices agreed that doctors preforming abortions must have admitting privileges to a hospital no more than 30 miles away.
Planned Parenthood (PP) argued that this would severely restrict women in rural areas from abortion products.
PP appealed to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals: “Over one-third of the facilities providing abortions in Texas have been forced to stop providing that care and others have been forced to drastically reduce the number of patients to whom they are able to provide care. Already, appointments are being canceled and women seeking abortions are being turned away.”
More than half of abortions clinics have been closed down as the USSC have not ruled over the constitutionality of these restrictions on women’s rights.
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