Use Easy Ways to Reduce Abortions
10/26/06 Editorial by Sharon Camp in the Philadelphia Inquirer
"Sharon L. Camp is president and CEO of the Guttmacher Institute in New York City, a policy research organization in the field of sexual and reproductive health (www.guttmacher.org)
The recent decision by the Food and Drug Administration to allow women 18 and older to buy the emergency contraceptive Plan B without a prescription is welcome news. But Plan B alone will not be enough to overcome our nation's stalled progress in reducing unintended pregnancy and the need for abortion.
The latest data on abortion, published by the Guttmacher Institute in early August, should make no one happy: A decades-long decline in the U.S. abortion rate is stalling out. In each year from 2000 to 2003, the abortion rate (the number of abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age) barely budged. There is no reason to expect 2004, 2005 or 2006 to look any better. Indeed, they might look a good deal worse."
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