NATION IN BRIEF : NATIONWIDE : Legal Abortion Rate Rose Steadily in ‘80s
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The rate of legal abortions climbed steadily in the 1980s, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta reported. In a special report, the agency said 1,396,658 legal abortions were performed in the United States during 1989, the latest year for which statistics are available. That represented an increase of 1.9% from 1988, the agency said. The agency said the rate of abortion was 346 for every 1,000 live births. Women 20 to 24 years old had about 32% of all abortions.
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